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16 June 2026, 17:00 - 19:00
Living in Genocide

with Jasbir K. Puar
Still Called Palestine lecture series
organized by Layal Ftouni

Genocide is not only about killing and extermination. It is also about forcing people to live a certain kind of life. It is this consignment—this coercive tethering of bodies and communities to lives shaped by siege, starvation, debilitation, and slow death—that conditions genocide as a way of life, as a continuum and not an event, as an accumulative process, and increasingly, as a sanctioned method of governance. This talk therefore discusses “living in genocide,” and not “living through genocide.

Jasbir K. Puar is a Distinguished Faculty of Arts Professor in the Social Justice Institute at the University of British Columbia, Extraordinary Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, and Professor Emerita at Rutgers University where she was faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department for 23 years. Puar is the author of the award-winning books: The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017), and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007). Her articles have been published in journals such as Social Text and South Atlantic Quarterly, mainstream venues such as Al-Jazeera and The Guardian, and translated into more than 20 languages.

ALL WELCOME: first come, first seated. Overflow room available. The lecture series will return in the fall.