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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, November 28, 2025 3:00 pm to 5:00
  pm \n Natalie Zemon Davis Conference Room SS2098 \n Sidney Smith Hall \n 
 100 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3 \n\nSpeakers \nYara Sa’di-Ibraheem
  \n\nDescription: \n This talk examines how ruination and demolition have 
 become enduring features of Palestinian urban life, shaping distinct temp
 oral experiences and modes of existence. Focusing on the Palestinian city 
 of Jaffa under Israeli rule, it discusses how prolonged processes of disp
 ossession and displacement generate layered temporalities that intertwine 
 material destruction with lived time. The analysis traces how Israeli plan
 ning and governance impose temporal frameworks on Jaffa’s neighborhoods—re
 ndering them “empty,” “frozen,” or “ahistorical” spaces— as well as the 
 Palestinians’ temporal experiences of waiting, endurance, and the strugg
 le to reclaim control over time. By situating Jaffa’s ruins within broader
  discussions on settler colonialism and temporality, the talk addresses t
 he persistence of frontiering as a continuing colonial logic—one that endu
 res through different actors, spatial forms, and infrastructures, inclu
 ding within territories that have already been subjected to settler-coloni
 al domination. Yara Sa’di-Ibraheem is a postdoctoral fellow at U of T's He
 aring Palestine. She specialises in political geography, with research in
 terests that include indigenous geographies and temporalities, settler co
 lonialism, neoliberal urbanism, and infrastructure, focusing on the Mid
 dle East, particularly Palestine. Her main research explores socio-politi
 cal dimensions of infrastructure in colonial settings— principally telecom
 munications and playgrounds—as well as neoliberal planning under settler c
 olonialism and the spatial-temporal experiences of indigenous communities.
 Register here or by clicking on the icon above  \n\nSponsors \nDepartment 
 of History, the Hearing Palestine Initiative \n100 St George St, Toronto
 , ON M5S 3G3 \n\nCategories \n Talk \n\nAudiences \n Alumni and FriendsCo
 mmunityFacultyFirst-Year StudentsGraduate StudentsProspective Graduate Stu
 dentsProspective Undergraduate StudentsStaffUndergraduate Students
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LOCATION:100 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 3G3
SUMMARY:Settler Time, Ruined Space: Tracing Colonial Temporalities in Jaff
 a
URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.history.utoronto.ca/events/settler-time-ruined-spa
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