Culture, Power, Social Change presents “Nakba as Wounding Ecology” with Dr. Sherena Razek, President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, UCLA, Gender Studies.

When: Thursday, April 2

Lunch: 12 pm. Talk: 12:15 – 1:45 pm

Where: Haines Hall 352

No registration required. First come, first served for lunch.

Join a talk by Dr. Sherena Razek, Nakba as Wounding Ecology, with lunch provided.

In this talk, Sherena reflects on how the Palestinian condition can reshape the way we understand the climate crisis, approaching the Nakba as a form of “wounding ecology.” Moving across land and body, symbol and materiality, she brings together questions of settler colonialism, indigenous resistance, and environmental catastrophe in ways that highlight their deep interconnectedness and urgency.

Dr. Sherena Razek is a diasporic Palestinian feminist educator, scholar, activist, and labor organizer. She is currently a President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Gender Studies at UCLA and earned her PhD in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University. Her research engages Palestinian visual culture, anti-imperialist struggle, and decolonial feminist ecologies, and her writing has appeared in The Journal of Palestine Studies, Women & Performance, InVisible Culture, and Social Text.