The Dialogue & Dignity Series includes speakers, workshops, and conversations aimed at building appreciation for discussion that includes different points of view for the development of understanding and good solutions to our most pressing issues.

Please join us on Tuesday, Mar. 5 at 7 p.m. in Brattain Auditorium for a public talk titled “Gaza, Israel, Palestine: Histories of the Present,” by guest speaker Liora Halperin, Professor of International Studies and History, and Distinguished Endowed Chair of Jewish Studies, at University of Washington.

Halperin is a historian of Israel/Palestine with particular interests in nationalism and collective memory, Jewish cultural and social history, language ideology and policy, and the politics of colonization and settlement. She is the author of “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past,” a study of the European Jewish agricultural colonies established in late 19th-century Ottoman Palestine and the politics of their 20th-century commemoration. She is also the author of “Babel in Zion: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine, 1920-1948,” which was awarded the Shapiro Prize from the Association for Israel Studies for the best book in Israel Studies.