{"title": "Multispecies warfare in Palestine-Israel", "start": "2026-11-20T12:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-20T14:00:00Z", "place": "Department of Geography", "address": "Gower Street, WC1E 6BT London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/animals", "society/politics"], "description": "A seminar titled \"Multispecies warfare in Palestine-Israel\" at the Department of Geography. The speaker is Irus Braverman, SUNY Distinguished Professor and a Harvard Radcliffe Fellow, whose talk draws on ethnographic research and her own experiences growing up in Palestine-Israel. She explores how nonhuman animals have become active participants in Israeli warfare and how warfare has been shaped by their presence, introducing the concept of \"multispecies warfare.\" Examples include sheep seizing territory through grazing, donkeys sustaining mobility under siege, and camel movement criminalised through conservation laws.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/multispecies-warfare-in-palestine-israel-89042/", "official_url": "https://www.ucl.ac.uk/social-historical-sciences/events/2026/nov/multispecies-warfare-palestine-israel", "image": "https://noky.io/images/b0f6f7399472415bce5f80e7e9ca8a55ff801409d36915823d07e2c8db42fc1c-600.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-20T12:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-20T14:00:00Z", "place": "Department of Geography", "address": "Gower Street, WC1E 6BT London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "2026 BRISMES Annual Lecture: Beyond Bearing Witness: Palestine, Knowledge Production and the Political Economy of the Future", "start": "2026-11-12T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG London", "price": "Free, registration required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/politics/israel-palestine", "history/colonialism"], "description": "A public lecture, also streamed online, discussing what forms of knowledge and analysis are needed beyond documenting conditions in Palestine. The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies (BRISMES) presents its 2026 Annual Lecture with Rafeef Ziadah, co-hosted at SOAS by the Centre for Palestine Studies and the SOAS Middle East Institute, chaired by Dina Matar. It examines the political and economic projects being assembled around Palestine, including infrastructures of regional integration, energy, logistics, reconstruction and normalisation. Admission is free, but registration is required and seating is first come, first served.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/2026-brismes-annual-lecture-beyond-bearing-witness-palestine-50444/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/2026-brismes-annual-lecture-beyond-bearing-witness-palestine-knowledge-production-and", "image": ""}, {"title": "The Trembling City: Book Launch", "start": "2026-11-08T15:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-08T16:30:00Z", "place": "Ibraaz", "address": "Mortimer Street 93, W1W 7SS London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/war", "science"], "description": "A talk and conversation marking the worldwide launch of the book 'The Trembling City: The Sonic and Atmospheric Violence of Vibrational Warfare', held in the Majlis. Author Gascia Ouzounian joins artist and researcher Susan Schuppli in conversation. The book explores how sound and vibration act as instruments of violence in cities under occupation, siege, and war, from drone noise in Gaza to the skies above Beirut. It is part of 'The Trembling City: Sound and Spatial Justice', a series conceived by Ouzounian with Ibraaz.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-trembling-city-book-launch-36607/", "official_url": "https://ibraaz.org/whats-on/the-trembling-city", "image": ""}, {"title": "The challenges to peace and democracy in the Middle East", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-10T20:00:00Z", "place": "London School of Economics and Political Science", "address": "Houghton Street, WC2A 2AE London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/middle-east", "society/politics"], "description": "A public panel discussion, in person on campus and streamed online, on the growing challenges to peace and democracy across the Middle East. It is hosted by the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity, a fellowship programme at the London School of Economics and Political Science, as part of events marking the programme's tenth anniversary. Speakers include Rula Daood and Alon-Lee Green, co-leaders of an Arab-Jewish political party, political scientist Yonatan Levi and Professor Mary Kaldor, with the conversation chaired by Professor Armine Ishkanian. The panel reflects on developments since the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023 and the Israeli military campaign in Gaza, and explores how political movements, civil society and grassroots initiatives are working towards peace and democracy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-challenges-to-peace-and-democracy-in-the-middle-east-114220/", "official_url": "https://www.lse.ac.uk/events/challenges-to-peace", "image": "https://noky.io/images/0ddebb985192d669853c39b97b12b78d3b6c430b5ab501c51bb422160922b981-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Beinghood: More-than-Human Intelligence and Ancestral Futures", "start": "2026-11-19T16:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-19T18:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland", "address": "Fitzroy Street 50, London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["nature/environment", "society"], "description": "A hybrid talk and conversation on beinghood, a mode of existence grounded in relation, presence, agency and participation in a world of many beings. It features Fernanda Gebara, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter, in conversation with Jemma Foster, Founder and Director of Wild Alchemy Labs. Drawing on Gebara's forthcoming book Chanting Spring: Indigenous Wisdom for Ancestral Futures and her two decades of work with Indigenous peoples, particularly in the Amazon, the discussion explores plant intelligence, ancestral intelligence and how recognising other beings as sources of knowledge might guide responses to ecological and social crises. It is part of the Chanting for Ancestral Futures event series.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beinghood-more-than-human-intelligence-and-ancestral-futures-132904/", "official_url": "https://therai.org.uk/events/beinghood-more-than-human-intelligence-and-ancestral-futures/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d063f9f54eb37e37080a1aae224a008b46c69d7afe733f6bbf175003fcbdc901-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Book launch: 'Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power'", "start": "2026-11-10T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "SOAS University of London", "address": "10 Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H 0XG London", "price": "Free to attend, but registration is required", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "society/media"], "description": "A book launch for 'Decolonizing Afghanistan: Countering Imperial Knowledge and Power', hosted by the SOAS Middle East Institute and the SOAS South Asia Institute at SOAS University of London. The book, published by Duke University Press, is edited by Wazhmah Osman and Robert D. Crews and offers cross-disciplinary, ground-up perspectives on colonial projects in Afghanistan, focusing on the US intervention that began in 2001. Contributors Dawood Azami, Marya Hannun and Wazhmah Osman will discuss media narratives, information warfare and knowledge production, and how visual tropes and ideologies shape portrayals of Afghanistan. Attendance is free but registration is required, with seating allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/book-launch-decolonizing-afghanistan-countering-imperial-kno-43667/", "official_url": "https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/book-launch-decolonizing-afghanistan-countering-imperial-knowledge-and-power", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5a3032d06453f61472b5faf6331ace0c9f76c3a2e2be8952a7d176992e71c768-2000.webp"}]}