The Lowell Humanities Series at Boston College welcomes Sherene Seikaly to discuss themes from her forthcoming book project, From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine, and raise the question: How do we understand conflicting claims to land and its relationship to colonialism?
Cosponsored by the Boston College History Department.
The Lowell Humanities Series is sponsored by the Lowell Institute, Boston College’s Institute for the Liberal Arts, and the Provost’s Office.
Sherene Seikaly is a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2024–25) and Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her 2016 book Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine explores economy, territory, the home, and the body. Her forthcoming book From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine tells a global history of capital, slavery, and dispossession. She is the Director of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UCSB and co-editor of the Stanford Studies Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies, the Journal of Palestine Studies, and Jadaliyya.
