Conference Vision and Goals
The purpose of this conference is to bring students from across Harvard University together to enrich academic discussions about possible solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The aim is to explore the merits of a one-state solution, a framework in which Israelis and Palestinians can share a liberal democratic state.
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Speakers
The One State Conference will include seven panels, two key notes and 20 panelists. Click here to find out more about the panels.
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SPEAKERS
Ali Abunimah
Author of One Country, A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse and is a contributor to The Goldstone Report: The Legacy of the Landmark Investigation of the Gaza Conflict. He is a co-founder of the online publication The Electronic Intifada and a policy adviser with Al-Shabaka, The Palestinian Policy Network.
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Professor Susan Akram
Professor Susan Akram is Clinical Professor at Boston University School of Law, teaching immigration law, comparative refugee law, and international human rights law and supervising students handling refugee and asylum cases in BU’s Asylum and Human Rights program.
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Sa’ed Atshan
Sa’ed Atshan is a joint PhD candidate in anthropology and Middle Eastern studies at Harvard University where he is a Soros Fellow and National Science Foundation Fellow.
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Dr. Naor Ben-Yehoyada
Naor Ben-Yehoyada is a Visiting Lecturer and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Studies in Harvard’s Anthropology Department, Director of Undergraduate Programs at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, and a Visiting Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies.
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Dr. Dalit Baum
Co-founder of "Who Profits from the Occupation", an activist research initiative of the Coalition of Women for Peace in Israel. She is a feminist scholar and instructor at Haifa University and the Beit Berl College.
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Professor Amahl Bishara
Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University. She is currently examining the production of US news in the West Bank by way of ethnography
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Diana Buttu
Diana Buttu is a Palestinian-Canadian lawyer and former spokesperson with the Negotiations Support Unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization. She has worked as a legal adviser and negotiator on peace negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian organizations and has appeared numerous times on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC.
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Professor Marc Ellis
Professor Marc Ellis teaches Jewish Studies at Baylor University. He earned B.A. and M.A. degrees Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in Religion and American Studies at Florida State University, where he studied under the Holocaust theologian Richard Rubenstein, and the American historian of the Catholic Worker movement, William Miller.
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Associate Professor Leila Farsakh
Leila Farsakh is Associate Professor in Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston.
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Professor Emerita Elaine Hagopian
Professor Emerita Elaine Hagopian held faculty appointments in Sociology at Smith College and Simmons College.
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Professor Duncan Kennedy
Professor Duncan Kennedy is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School.
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Itamar Mann
Itamar Mann is a scholar and practitioner of human rights. He occasionally contributes op-eds for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
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Professor Timothy McCarthy
Professor Timothy McCarthy is Lecturer on History and Literature, Adjunct Lecturer on Public Policy, and Director the Sexuality, Gender, and Human Rights Program (formerly the Human Rights and Social Movements Program) at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
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Professor Ilan Pappé
Professor Ilan Pappé teaches at history at the University of Exeter. He obtained his BA degree from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1979 and the D. Phil from the University of Oxford in 1984.
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Rabbi Brant Rosen
Rabbi Brant Rosen serves a congregation in Evanston, IL. He currently serves as the co-chair of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council and is a member of the American Friends of Tent of Nations North America Advisory Board.
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Professor Nadim Rouhana
Nadim N. Rouhana is Professor of International Negotiation and Conflict Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
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Professor Sarah Schulman
Professor Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright, journalist, and professor of English at City University of New York (College of Staten Island).
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Associate Professor Heike Schotten
Heike Schotten is Associate Professor of Political Science at Univesity of Massachusetts Boston, where she teaches political theory, feminist theory and queer theory.
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Professor Eve Spangler
Professor Eve Spangler teaches at Boston College. Her main interests lie in the intersecting areas of work and inequality.
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Nimer Sultany
Nimer Sultany is a doctoral candidate at Harvard Law School. He has law degrees from the College of Management (LL.B.), Tel Aviv University (LL.M.), and the University of Virginia (LL.M.).
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Professor Stephen M. Walt
Professor Stephen M. Walt is the Robert and Renee Belfer Professsor of International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.
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