Gender Talk with Maya Wind: Towers of Ivory and Steel (book presentation)

Gender Talk at the Centre for Gender Studies, Karlstad University

September 5th

Time: 14.00 - 16.00. 
Room: 11A223

Maya Wind: Towers of Ivory and Steel (Book presentation)

In this talk Maya Wind will provide an introduction to her anthropological study "Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom” (Verso Books, 2024). In the book she problematises Israeli universities as pillars of a system of oppression against Palestinians. Israeli universities have long enjoyed a reputation as liberal bastions of freedom and democracy. 

Drawing on extensive research and making Hebrew sources accessible to the international community, Maya Wind shatters this myth and offers an alternative perspective onto the intricate involvement of Israeli academic institutions and academic networks in regional structures of oppression.

Dr. Maya Wind is Killam Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Her new research project addresses the international export of Israeli security expertise and has been supported by the Canadian National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Canadian Killam Laureates Trust.