Chaire sécable de l’IISMM-EHESS 25-26 | Professeure invitée : Honaida Ghanim (Birzeit University)
Honaida Ghanim is an adjunct professor in the Master’s Program in Israeli Studies at Birzeit University and the general director of the Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies – MADAR in Ramallah. Her research focuses on political sociology, settler colonialism, and socio-political transformations in Palestine/Israel.
For her academic publications: Honaida Ghanim on Academia
For MADAR’s publications and activities: The Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies – MADAR
Honaida Ghanim will take part of the Visiting Professors Program designed by EHESS, on proposal of Véronique Bontemps (CNRS, IRIS)
LECTURES
When Yafa Met Jaffa: Intersections Between the Holocaust and the Nakba in the Shadow of Zionism (en arabe)
The lecture explores the complex intersections between the Holocaust and the Nakba within the framework of Zionism and settler-colonialism. While the Holocaust has been central to legitimizing the Zionist project, the Nakba—marking the displacement and dispossession of Palestinians—has been systematically erased from mainstream historical narratives. Through the lens of literature and historical analysis, we will examine how Palestinian and Arab writers have engaged with this entangled history.
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Jeudi 27 novembre 2025 de 16h à 18h – Salle B109, Université Sorbonne-nouvelle, 8 Av. de Saint-Mandé, 75012 Paris
The Organic Crisis of the Zionist Project: Between Civil War and Genocide
Dans le cadre du séminaire du Laboratoire d’anthropologie politique (LAP)
This lecture will examine the deep organic crisis unfolding within the Zionist project in Palestine/Israel, focusing on two critical fronts: the intractable conflict with the indigenous people and the internal contest for power among Jewish-Israeli groups. It will analyze how these two dimensions—external colonial confrontation and internal fragmentation—are increasingly intertwined. The lecture argues that this dual crisis reveals the limits of Zionism’s founding logic and exposes the implosion of its settler-colonial order.
- Lundi 1er décembre 2025 de 17h à 19h – Salle A_S108, EHESS, 54 boulevard Raspail, 75006 Paris
The Social Life of Ruins in a Settler-Colonial Context
Dans le cadre du séminaire “Archéologie en interdisciplinarité” (UE647)
This lecture explores how ruins—specifically the remains of Palestinian villages and urban neighborhoods destroyed in 1948 and beyond—function as active, non-human agents within a settler-colonial landscape. Far from inert debris, these sites challenge dominant historical narratives and complicate the colonial project’s claim to have replaced or erased the indigenous presence.
- Vendredi 5 décembre 2025 de 14h30 à 18h30 – Salle 50, Centre des colloques, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers
In the Shadow of the War on Gaza: Settler Colonialism and the Genealogy of Radical Violence
Dans le cadre du séminaire “Faire des sciences sociales sur la Palestine : renouvellement des savoirs et des pratiques” (UE 478)
This lecture examines the centrality of settler-colonial analysis in understanding the October 7 and Israel’s ongoing genocidal war on Gaza. Through a sociological lens, it situates these events within the long-term dynamics of Zionist settler expansion and the structural relations it has produced between colonizer and colonized. The lecture highlights how enduring logics of elimination, segregation, and control have shaped the social organization of Israeli power as well as the forms of Palestinian resistance that emerge under conditions of total domination.
- Vendredi 12 décembre 2025 de 14h30 à 16h30 – Salle 50, Centre des colloques, Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers
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