CCJHR Event: 'Race and the Question of Palestine': In conversation with Dr Lana Tatour

18 Nov 2025

Happening On 27/11/2025

This event will take place on Thursday 27th November, 3:30pm-5pm at the Áine Hyland Room, The Hub, UCC.

Professor Ursula Kilkelly, Vice President Global Engagement, and the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, is delighted to host Race and the Question of Palestine': In conversation with Dr Lana Tatour. In this roundtable event, Professor Laura McAtackney (Radical Humanities and Archaeology), Dr Laurence Davis (Government and Politics) and Dr Henrietta Zeffert (Law) will be in conversation with Lana Tatour about her co-edited volume, Race and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2025).

The book, co-edited with Ronit Lentin, develops from the position that the colonization of Palestine—like other imperial and settler colonial projects—cannot be understood outside the grammar of race. Offering a wide-ranging set of essays by historians, legal scholars, political scientists, sociologists, literary scholars, and race critical theorists, the books illuminates how race should be understood in terms of its political work, and not as an identity category interchangeable with ethnicity, culture, or nationalism, and explores how race operates as a technology of power and colonial rule, a political and economic structure, a set of legal and discursive practices, and a classificatory system.

 Dr Lana Tatour is a Senior Lecturer in Global Development at the University of New South Wales, and an Associate at the Australian Human Rights Institute.  She is a scholar of settler colonialism, indigeneity, race, and citizenship, with a focus on Palestine.  Her coedited book, Race and the Question of Palestine was published in 2025 with Stanford University Press.  She is currently completing her monograph, Colonized Citizens: Liberalism, Settler Colonialism, and Palestinian resistance. Lana is also a public commentator.  She has appeared on ABC News, the BBC, and TRT World, and her publications have appeared in The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, Mondoweiss, Middle East Eye, The Age, Overland, and more.

Professor Laura McAtackney is based in the Radical Humanities Laboratory and in Archaeology at UCC. Her areas of interest are contemporary archaeology, especially of conflict, institutions, colonialism and gender, and various facets of heritage, especially related to difficult or 'dark' pasts.

Dr. Laurence Davis is a critical political theorist lecturing in the Department of Government and Politics at UCC. His primary research interests are in radical political thought and imagination, with an emphasis on bringing the perspectives of the humanities to bear on the multiple and interlocking global crises of our time.

Dr Henrietta Zeffert is a lecturer in the School of Law at UCC. Her research focuses on ‘home’ and draws from feminist, postcolonial and legal geographic theory, and global socio-legal studies. 

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Dr. Henrietta Zeffert at henrietta.zeffert@ucc.ie