{"id":185040,"date":"2021-05-17T12:01:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T11:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=185040"},"modified":"2021-05-16T05:54:21","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T04:54:21","slug":"citizen-pilgrim-to-be-or-not-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2021\/05\/citizen-pilgrim-to-be-or-not-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Pilgrim: To Be or Not to Be"},"content":{"rendered":"

Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim \u2013 A Conversation with Richard Falk, Noura Erakat, Victoria Brittain and Jeremy Corbyn<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When:\u00a0<\/strong>Monday, May 17, 2021, 5:30 PM \u2013 7:00 PM (GMT-BST)<\/h2>\n

Where:\u00a0<\/strong>Online<\/h2>\n

Book Now – Click Here<\/a><\/h2>\n

The\u00a0International State Crime Initiative<\/a>\u00a0is delighted to host a conversation with\u00a0Professor Richard Falk<\/strong>\u2014preeminent international legal scholar, activist, and thinker on peace and justice\u2014on his recently released memoir Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim. Professor Falk will be joined by\u00a0Professor Noura Erakat<\/strong>, British journalist and author\u00a0Victoria Brittain<\/strong>, and British MP and Former Leader of the Labour Party\u00a0Jeremy Corbyn<\/strong>, who will reflect upon Falk\u2019s life as a leading international and political figure.<\/p>\n

This event, chaired by\u00a0Professor Penny Green<\/strong>\u00a0(Queen Mary), will take place on Monday 17 May at 5:30 pm (BST).<\/p>\n

Professor Falk\u2019s political memoir,\u00a0Public Intellectual: The Life of a Citizen Pilgrim<\/em>, chronicles Falk\u2019s life of progressive commitment, highlighted by his visits to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War; to Iran during the Islamic Revolution; to South Africa at the height of the struggle against apartheid; and frequently to Palestine and Israel in his capacity as the UN Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine. Falk\u2019s memoir also discusses the enduring defamatory attacks he faced in reaction to his stances for justice and his expressions of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle.<\/p>\n

As a Professor of International Law at Princeton University, Professor Falk would draw on these experiences to publish more than fifty books on topics of significant scholarly relevance, including studies of the profound dangers now facing humanity, the relevance of international law and the UN, and prospects for transforming world order in the direction of peace, justice, and ecological viability. His memoir excavates two key themes that have dominated his public roles: engaging with the controversies of the present and envisioning a future of world order that is humane and sensitive to ecological limits.<\/p>\n

Speakers<\/h2>\n

\"ProfileProfessor Richard Falk<\/strong>\u00a0is a leading international law professor, prominent activist, and prolific author and scholar. During forty years at Princeton University Falk was active in seeking an end to the Vietnam War, a better understanding of Iran, a just solution for Israel\/Palestine, and improved democracy elsewhere. He also served as UN Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestine. His books include\u00a0This Endangered Planet, A Study of Future Worlds; Power Shift, Revisiting the Vietnam War, Palestine Horizon<\/em>, and\u00a0On Nuclearism<\/em>. He now holds a Chair in Global Law at Queen Mary University of London.<\/p>\n

\"RtRt Hon Jeremy Corbyn MP<\/strong>\u00a0is British MP for Islington North and Former Leader of the British Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition (2015-2020). Corbyn was first elected to Parliament in 1983. His professional and personal journey has led him to spend significant time and energy on issues of anti-racism, anti-imperialism, LGBT+ rights, transport, the environment, opposition to nuclear weapons and military intervention, Trade Union policies, Miscarriages of Justice and more. Through his roles and activism he has travelled widely and continues to support communities affected by unresolved conflict, including the Western Sahara, Chagos Islands, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, Ireland, West Papua, the Dalit community, and the Rohingya. Corbyn was awarded the Sean McBride Peace Prize in 2017, and before that the Gandhi International Peace Award in 2013. He is currently a member of the Parliamentary Assembly for the Council of Europe, the UK Socialist Campaign Group, and a regular participant at the United Nations Human Rights Council (Geneva), Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (Vice President), and Chagos Islands All Party Parliamentary Group (Honorary President), and a Vice president of the British Group Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU).<\/p>\n

\"ProfessorProfessor Noura Erakat<\/strong>\u00a0is a human rights attorney, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Rutgers University, and non-resident fellow of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School. Noura is the author of\u00a0Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine<\/em>\u00a0(Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events\/Foreign Affairs. She is co-founding editor of\u00a0Jadaliyya<\/em>\u00a0and editorial board member of the\u00a0Journal of Palestine Studies<\/em>. She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the US House of Representatives, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights, and as national organizer of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura has also produced video documentaries, including \u201cGaza In Context\u201d and \u201cBlack Palestinian Solidarity.\u201d She has appeared on CBS News, CNN, Fox News, and NPR, among others.<\/p>\n

\"VictoriaVictoria Brittain<\/strong>\u00a0worked at the\u00a0Guardian<\/em>\u00a0for more than 20 years as a foreign correspondent and then Associate Foreign Editor. She has lived and worked in Saigon, Algiers, Nairobi and reported from many countries in Africa and the Middle East for numerous media outlets in the anglophone and francophone worlds. She is the author, co-author or editor of 10 books and plays including\u00a0Love and Resistance in the Films of Mai Masri<\/em>\u00a0(Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).<\/p>\n

Chair<\/h2>\n

\"PennyProfessor Penny Green<\/strong>\u00a0is Head of the Law Department at Queen Mary University and Professor Law and Globalisation. Professor Green has published extensively on state crime theory (including her monographs with Tony Ward,\u00a0State Crime: Governments, Violence and Corruption<\/em>; and\u00a0State Crime and Civil Activism: on the dialectics of repression and resistance),\u00a0<\/em>state violence, Turkish criminal justice and politics, \u2018natural\u2019 disasters, the Rohingya genocide, mass forced evictions in Israel\/Palestine, and civil society resistance to state violence. Professor Green is Co-editor in Chief of the State\u00a0Crime Journal<\/em>\u00a0and Founder and Director of the award-winning International State Crime Initiative.<\/p>\n

**Please note this is an online event and that all registrants will be sent joining details on the day of the event.<\/p>\n

Contact the university<\/h5>\n

Queen Mary University of London
\nMile End Road
\nLondon E1 4NS
\n+44 (0) 20 7882 5555<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a><\/em>Richard Falk is a member of the\u00a0TRANSCEND Network<\/strong><\/a>, an international relations scholar, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University,\u00a0Distinguished Research Fellow, Orfalea Center of Global Studies,\u00a0UCSB,\u00a0author, co-author or editor of 60 books, and a speaker and activist on world affairs.\u00a0In 2008, the\u00a0United Nations Human Rights Council<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(UNHRC) appointed Falk to two three-year terms as a\u00a0United Nations Special Rapporteur <\/strong><\/a>on \u201cthe situation of human rights in the\u00a0Palestinian territories<\/strong><\/a> occupied since 1967.\u201d Since 2002 he has lived in Santa Barbara, California, and associated with the local campus of the University of California, and for several years chaired the Board of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. His most recent book is\u00a0<\/em>On Nuclear Weapons, Denuclearization, Demilitarization, and Disarmament\u00a0(2019). <\/em><\/p>\n

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