Palestine. The expansion of the Prison Web

When: 22 October 2026, 18:00 — 19:30
Venue: Online

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Dr. Stéphanie Latte Abdallah is Director of Research at France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), a political anthropologist and historian specializing in Palestine, the Middle East and contemporary Arab societies. Her recent research focuses on borders, carcerality and prisons in Palestine/Israel. She is interested in emerging citizen mobilizations linked to alternative economies, autonomy, ecology and concrete utopias in Palestine and Lebanon. And she coordinates the IMAGIN-E research program (https://imagineleblog.hypotheses.org/stephanie-latte-abdallah). Her two most recent books are La toile carcérale. Une histoire de l'enfermement en Palestine (2021, in English: 2022) and Des morts en guerre. Rétention des corps et figures du martyr en Palestine (2022). With Véronique Bontemps, she also edited the volume Gaza. Une guerre coloniale (2025).

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