Please join us in the Spring 2026 McMillan Stewart Lecture with Prof. Frances Hasso

Introductions by Prof. Lerna Ekmekcioglu

This lecture revisits a few themes in Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine (Cambridge 2022) given the contemporary historical moment. It considers legal dimensions of abortion in Islamic jurisprudence and in laws operable in Palestine from the British colonial period to the present; the continuing hyperbolization and targeting of Palestinian sexual and reproductive life; and contemporary sexual and reproductive healthcare for Palestinians, including abortion access, under colonization and genocide. Palestinians continue to recognize that their futurity depends less on the biological reproduction of specific families than reproduction of generations of collective memory and resistance, a reality that has intensified since 2023.

For questions about the event and accessibility, please email wgs@mit.edu

Food will be provided

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