Just Academics? Complicity, Legal Accountability, and Ethical Responsibility

Omar Barghouti, co-founder of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), is visiting Folkets Hus for a talk on academic and cultural boycotts. The talk is followed by a Q&A session moderated by Nadim Haidar

Bio

Omar Barghouti is a Palestinian human rights defender, co-founder of the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, and recipient of the 2017 Gandhi Peace Award. He holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University, NY, and is pursuing a PhD in Philosophy (ethics) at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of BDS: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights (Haymarket: 2011). His commentaries and views have appeared in the New York Times, and the Guardian, among others.

Nadim Haidar holds a BA in Political Studies and an MA in Middle Eastern Studies, both from the American University of Beirut. Haidar has been an organizer and activist for many years and has engaged with numerous movements for social justice. Most recently, he has served as an organizer in Internationalt Forum, focusing on the struggle for justice in Palestine.

Additional information

This event is free and open to the public, with no registration required. The doors will open at 15:45 and the event begins at 16:00.

The talk is organised by the research cluster Global Entanglements. Funded by the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of Copenhagen, the cluster examines the position of artistic and cultural practices within the frameworks of global and trans-local networks. From a critical and interdisciplinary perspective, the cluster seeks to dismantle Eurocentrism and essentialist narratives.