The Sixteen Tom Hurndall Memorial Lectures
The First Lecture took place in November 2005, with Dr Salman Abu Sitta (founder of the Palestine Land Society) on ‘Prospects for peace in Palestine’.
The Second Lecture was in November 2006 with Richard Kuper (Jews for Justice for Palestinians, London) on ‘Human rights and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’.
The Third Lecture was in January 2008 with Ilan Pappe (University of Exeter) on ‘The dispossession of Palestine: Sixty years on’.
The Fourth Lecture was in December 2008, with Kamel Hawwash (Chair of the Britain-Palestine Twinning Network, the Birmingham-Ramallah Twinning initiative and the Midlands Palestinian Community Association) on ‘Can Palestinians regain the initiative for ending the occupation?’
The Fifth Lecture was in November 2009, with Avi Shlaim (Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford) on ‘Israel’s offensive in Gaza: Rhetoric and reality’.
The Sixth Lecture was in November 2010, with Karma Nabulsi (University of Oxford) on ‘Overcoming fragmentation: Palestinian refugees and the Right of Return’.
The Seventh Lecture was in October 2011, with Haneen Maikey (Director of alQaws Centre for Sexual and Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society, Jerusalem) on ‘Queer politics and the Palestinian struggle: Ten years of activism’.
The Eighth Lecture was in April 2013, with Eyal Weizman (Professor of Visual Cultures and director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London) on ‘The fields and forums of political action’.
The Ninth Lecture was in April 2014, with Daniel Machover (Head of Civil Litigation, Hickman & Rose Solicitors, London) on ‘Are some or all Palestinians victims of Israeli apartheid?’
The Tenth Lecture was in March 2015, with Rania Masri (Associate Director of the Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship, American University of Beirut) on ‘Dismantling racism and colonialism: Challenges for the BDS movement’.
The Eleventh Lecture was in March 2016, with Adam Hanieh (Senior Lecturer in Development Studies at SOAS, University of London) who spoke on the title ‘Palestine in the shadow of regional turmoil’.
The Twelfth Lecture was in March 2017, with Penny Green (Professor of Law and Globalisation, Queen Mary University of London) speaking on ‘Evicting Palestine: Israel’s criminal urban planning programme’.
The Thirteenth Lecture was in March 2018, with Miriyam Aouragh (Senior Lecturer and Leverhulme Fellow at CAMRI, University of Westminster) speaking on ‘Resisting cybercide, strengthening solidarity: standing up to Israel’s digital occupation’.
The Fourteenth Lecture was in March 2019, with Salma Karmi-Ayyoub (a criminal barrister in London) speaking on ‘Israel’s Nation State Law and its consequences for Palestinians’.
The Fifteenth Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture was in November 2020, with Tim Llewellyn (a former BBC Middle East correspondent) speaking on ‘How Britain’s mainstream media bends to the winds’.
The Sixteenth Tom Hurndall Memorial Lecture was in December 2021, with Lara Sheehi (clinical psychologist, secretary of the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Society) speaking on ‘Psychoanalysis under occupation’.