Event Date: 9 March 2019
Room B01
Clore Management Building
Birkbeck, University of London
Torrington Square
London WC1E 7HX
The Birkbeck Institute for Social Research presents:
Palestinian Childhoods: Human Rights, Mental Health and Resistance
The conference addresses the mental health of children and families in occupied Palestine, exploring the psychological and relational impacts of oppression and the denial of human rights. This focus on childhood will include experiences of arrest and imprisonment as well as children’s participation in Palestinian social and political life and their modes of resistance to occupation.
This conference is a joint initiative between CREHR (Centre for Researching and Embedding Human Rights), Birkbeck, University of London, and the UK/Palestine Mental Health Network. The event is sponsored by the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research and supported by Friends of Birzeit University.
download: Palestinian Childhoods-conference programme
download: Palestinian Childhoods-conference speakers
Programme:
Introductions
Speakers: Professor Bruna Seu (Birkbeck University):
Dr Martin Kemp (UK-Palestine Mental Health Network):
Opening Address
Speaker: Victoria Brittain (Journalist, Author and Human Rights Activist):
Keynote address: ‘Gun to Body’: Childhood, Colonialism and the Israeli Military Occupation
Speaker: Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kervorkian (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Keynote address: The Children of Palestine: Struggle and Survival under Occupation
Speaker: Dr Samah Jabr (Chair of Mental Health Unit at the Palestinian Ministry of Health)
accompanying images:
Response:
Speaker: Professor Jacqueline Rose (Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities)
Panel discussion:
Participants: Professor Jacqueline Rose (Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities), Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kervorkian, Dr Samah Jabr
Chair: Bruna Seu (Birkbeck University)
Workshops
Workshop |Resilience and Resistance in the ongoing traumatic reality of Gaza: reflections from case studies
Presenter: Dr Marwan Diab (Gaza Community Mental Health Programme, Gaza)
Chair: Eliana Pinto (UK-Palestine Mental Health Network)
Panel: Children and Young People in Palestine and Beyond; building solidarity and sustaining connections
Participants: Reem Yaghi, Meran Zahran and with skyped contribution from from Ahed Tamimi in Palestine
Chair: Mohammed Mukhaimer
Responses from young people in the UK
Concluding remarks
