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SUMMARY:Protective Edge and Human Shields in Gaza
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Nicola Perugini\, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Ital
 ian Studies and Middle East Studies\n\nRegistration will open April 8.\n\
 nPlease be aware\, that upon start of the event\, unclaimed lunches and se
 ats will be given to those on standby\, even if you have registered.\n\nPr
 iority will be given to the Brown community.\n\nThis event is part of the
  Middle East Studies Luncheon Seminar Series.\n\nAbstract:\nDuring Israel
 ’s 2014 operation ‘Protective Edge’ in Gaza\, human shielding became
  a central trope in the semiotic warfare surrounding the military campaign
 . Israel repeatedly claimed that Hamas uses human shields and therefore it
  is to blame for the killing of hundreds of civilians during the military 
 campaign. Why is human shielding a prominent topic of discussion in relati
 on to Israel/Palestine and almost completely absent when analyzing violenc
 e in other countries where warfare extensively involves civilians? What do
 es the legal concept human shield do? And why does the accusation of using
  human shields apply only to certain actors?\n\nBio:\nNicola Perugini is a
 n anthropologist and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow (Cogut Center) who teaches
  at Brown Middle East Studies and Italian Studies. In 2012-2013 Perugini w
 as a Member at the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton). His current r
 esearch focuses on the relationship between human rights and domination in
  Palestine/Israel\, the politics of human shielding and the mobilization o
 f the category of the human in contexts of political violence. He has publ
 ished articles on law and spatial practices\, embedded anthropology\, asyl
 um seekers\, humanitarianism\, politics of the gaze\, and trauma and settl
 er colonialism. Perugini collaborates with DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture
  Art Residency\, Beit Sahour\, Palestine) and the research project “Fore
 nsic Architecture” (Goldsmiths\, University of London).\n\n
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