The Race and Education Lecture for 2026 is: Unsettled Belonging in Unsettled Times: Educating Palestinians in the Diaspora with Dr. Thea Abu El-Haj from Barnard College.

Dr. Thea Abu El-Haj's reserach explores questions about belonging, rights, citizenship and education raised by globalization, transnational migration, and conflict. Her current reserach entitled "Disrupting Dispossession: Teaching Palestine in Exile, 1970-1990" is an oral history project with Palestinian teachers in Lebanon examining their everyday work as civic and political actors in the Palestinian movement for liberation. In other recent work, Dr. Abu El-Haj has explored the civic lives of children and youth in Lebanon and the U.S.

Live closed captioning available.

Cosponsored by: The Dean of the Faculty Office, Equity and Diversity Office, Sio Chair, Social Sciences Division's Dennis Fund, Sociology and Anthropology Department, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, Africana And Latin American Studies Program, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Program, Peace and Conflict Studies Program, Native American Studies Program, ALANA Cultural Center, and University Studies Division.