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Keynote lecture by Dr. Alia Al-Saji, professor of Philosophy at McGill<\/h2>\n

Gaza as a Compass for Thinking: <\/span>A decolonial philosophy of debilitation and resistance in colonial duration<\/span><\/h3>\n

Seventeen months into the genocide in Gaza, our philosophies remain for the most part either silent or complaisant, seemingly unable to think with a contemporaneous reality that would shake many of its presuppositions and theoretical tools. This is a colonial duration in which genocide continues to snowball\u2014during the current ceasefire\u2014through disease, cold, exposure, starvation, untreated injury, and the debilitation of the infrastructure for healthcare. Refusing the application of pregiven frameworks, I ask what an anticolonial\/decolonial and feminist philosophy that accompanies and affectively registers this reality may be. What is it to take Gaza as the compass for thinking. What might it mean to resist and refuse the inevitability of this colonial duration. Drawing on concepts of qahr (suffering, oppression), ashla\u2019a dismemberment), shaheed (martyr, witness) and sumud (steadfastness), found in Palestinian, Arab and Muslim thinking\u2014and on thinkers from Fanon to Shariati, Azoulay, and Meari\u2014I reconfigure an approach to philosophy that might begin to do justice to Palestine.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alia Al-Saji is Professor of Philosophy at McGill University. Al-Saji\u2019s work brings together phenomenology, critical philosophy of race, and feminist theory, with an abiding interest in questions of time and affect. She has published extensively in critical phenomenology and on the philosophies of Henri Bergson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Frantz Fanon, most recently: \u201cTouching the Wounds of Colonial Duration: Fanon\u2019s anticolonial critical phenomenology\u201d (Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2024). Her recent work extends Critical Disability Studies in colonial contexts, notably in: \u201cA Debilitating Colonial Duration: Reconfiguring Fanon\u201d (Research in Phenomenology, 2023).<\/span><\/p>\n

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