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BOOK DISCUSSION — Resisting Erasure: Capital, imperialism, and race in Palestine — with authors Adam Hanieh and Rafeef Ziadah (11 Dec, in person)


The Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths cordially invites you to

Resisting Erasure: Capital, imperialism, and race in Palestine (Verso 2025) 


A book discussion with authors Adam Hanieh and Rafeef Ziadah in conversation with Luca di Mambro

Thursday, 11 December 2025
3:00-5:30pm GMT 
Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths 

[Please book here to give us an idea of numbers: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resisting-erasure-in-palestine-tickets-1972565174537?aff=oddtdtcreator&lang=en-gb&locale=en_GB&status=30&view=listing]

Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics? Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisting Erasure places Israeli settler-colonialism within the broader historical arc of imperialism, race, and fossil capitalism in the Middle East. Resisting Erasure is a succinct and far-reaching critique of the socio-economic and political forces that sustain the Israeli settler-colonial project. An essential introduction for anyone looking to understand what Palestine reveals about the world – and what it demands of us today.

Join us for this book launch with authors Adam Hanieh (Exeter) and Rafeef Ziadah (King’s College London) in conversation with Luca di Mambro (student organiser and former Goldsmiths Students’ Union President). 

Chair: Sara Farris (Sociology / CPCT)

The event is organised in collaboration with members of the Sociology Department and the Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought at Goldsmiths University of London.

Free and open to the public; all welcome. 

Contact: s.farris [at] gold.ac.uk 
 


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Jodi Dean, Capital’s Grave: A Forum (26 June 2025; hybrid)

The Centre for Philosophy and Critical Thought (CPCT), Goldsmiths, cordially invites you to

Jodi Dean

Capital’s Grave: A Forum 

Thursday, 26 June 2025, 4–6pm BST 
RHB 137a and online (hybrid)  

With responses from: 
Svenja Bromberg (CPCT)
Peter Hallward (CRMEP)
James Martel (San Francisco State) 

(Register here for Zoom link)

Jodi Dean and three of her readers, Svenja Bromberg (CPCT Goldsmiths), Peter Hallward (CRMEP) and James Martel (San Francisco State), will be discussing her claims that capitalism is giving way to something that is arguably worse than capitalism itself: a form of neofeudalism that combines the worst elements of both capitalism and feudalism and adds terrible new features of its own. In this conversation, Dean and her interlocutors will discuss both the argument itself as well as its implications for resistance as we move into unprecedented and unparallelled times.  

About the speaker
Jodi Dean teaches and organizes in upstate New York. Her books include The Communist Horizon (2012), Crowds and Party (2016), Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging (2019), and Capital’s Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle (2025).

Contact: j.ng [at] gold.ac.uk