Academia, Ethics, & BDS: Lessons & Perspectives from the American Anthropological Association
Panel discussion by academics in the the largest and oldest scholarly body in the US to endorse a boycott of complicit Israeli academic institutions. Featuring: Dr. Sami Hermez, Dr. Jessica Winegar, Dr. Dan Segal, Dr. Jonah Rubin. Facilitated by Sasha Mouzin (DPhil Anthropology) and Maryam Dewji (MPhil American History)

In the current moment, as universities across the world reconsider their ethical investment policies in relation to calls from students and academics for divestment from armament, what might we learn from the largest and oldest scholarly body in the US to endorse a boycott of complicit Israeli academic institutions? How do we consider this resolution, passed three months before October 2023, now over a year and a half later? What are the challenges, responsibilities, and tools that members of institutions of higher education have now?
Date: 6 March 2025, 17:00
Venue: Online - please register here: https://forms.office.com/e/FhivzCkdPN
Speakers: Dr Sami Hermez (Northwestern University - Qatar), Dr Jessica Winegar (Northwestern University), Dr. Daniel A. Segal (Pitzer College), Dr Jonah Rubin (Knox College)
Organising department: School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
Organiser: Decolonising Anthropology Collective (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address: kebl7840@ox.ac.uk
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://forms.office.com/e/FhivzCkdPN
Audience: Public
Editor: Vivian Hong