List of Edward Said memorial lectures

Since Edward Said's death in 2003, several institutions have instituted annual lecture series in his memory, including Columbia University,{{cite web|url=http://www.heymancenter.org/about.php|title=About - The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University|author=|date=|website=www.heymancenter.org|accessdate=29 May 2018}} University of Warwick, Princeton University, University of Adelaide,[http://www.adelaide.edu.au/esml/about/ About the Edward Said Memorial Lecture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081013020509/http://www.adelaide.edu.au/esml/about/ |date=2008-10-13 }} at the University of Adelaide The American University in Cairo, London Review of Books, the Barenboim-Said Akademie and Palestine Center, with such notables speaking as Daniel Barenboim, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Marina Warner and Cornel West.

Columbia University

2005 Daniel Barenboim: Wagner, Israel and Palestine {{cite web|title=Daniel Barenboim Discusses Music as a Bridge for Peace in the Middle East|url=http://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?vt=detail&id=1891&con=embedded&br=ais|publisher=Columbia University|accessdate=23 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719175235/http://calendar.columbia.edu/sundial/webapi/get.php?vt=detail&id=1891&con=embedded&br=ais|archive-date=2011-07-19|url-status=dead}}
2006 Frank Kermode: Living On the Hyphen: Yeats, Anglo-Irish Poet{{Cite web |url=http://www.heymancenter.org/Storage/kermode%208x11.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726150138/http://www.heymancenter.org/Storage/kermode%208x11.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-26 |url-status=dead}}
2007 David Bromwich: Moral Imagination{{cite web|url=http://www.heymancenter.org/events.php?name_id=101&year=2007|title=By Semester - The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University|author=|date=|website=www.heymancenter.org|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
2008 Adonis: A Reading and a Recital{{cite web|url=http://www.heymancenter.org/events.php?name_id=102&year=2008|title=By Semester - The Heyman Center for the Humanities at Columbia University|author=|date=|website=www.heymancenter.org|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
2009 Noam Chomsky: The Unipolar Moment and the Culture of Imperialism{{cite web|url=http://www.heymancenter.org/events.php?id=151|title=Heyman Center for the Humanities|author=|date=|publisher=|accessdate=29 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091206181444/http://www.heymancenter.org/events.php?id=151|archive-date=2009-12-06|url-status=dead}}
2011 Ahdaf Soueif: Notes from the Egyptian Revolution {{cite web|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/palestine/resources/edwardsaid.html|title=The Center for Palestine Studies|author=|date=|website=Center for Palestine Studies - Columbia University|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
2012 W. J. T. Mitchell: Seeing Madness: Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture{{cite web|title=The Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture|url=http://heymancenter.org/events/seeing-madness/|publisher=The Heyman Center|accessdate=11 February 2018}}
2013 Raja Shehadeh: Is There a Language of Peace? Palestine Today and the Categorization of Domination{{cite web|title=The Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture|url=http://heymancenter.org/events/tenth-anniversary-edward-said-memorial-lecture/|publisher=The Heyman Center|accessdate=11 February 2018}}
2014 Richard Falk: The Palestinian Future After Gaza{{cite web|title=The Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture|url=http://heymancenter.org/events/said-falk/|publisher=The Heyman Center|accessdate=11 February 2018}}
2015 Declan Kiberd: The Future of the Past: Revival Ireland 1891-1922{{cite web|title=The Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture|url=http://heymancenter.org/events/the-future-of-the-past-revival-ireland-1891-1922/|publisher=The Heyman Center|accessdate=11 February 2018}}
2017 Catherine Hall: Imaginative Geographies of the Black/White Atlantic{{cite web|title=The Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture|url=http://heymancenter.org/events/edward-w-said-memorial-lecture-catherine-hall/|publisher=The Heyman Center|accessdate=11 February 2018}}

University of Warwick

2004 Tim Brennan: The Politics of Belief{{cite web|url=http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/events/edwardsaid/archive/|title=Archive of Said Lectures|author=|date=|website=www2.warwick.ac.uk|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
2005 Tariq Ali: Palestine & The Western Liberal Conscience
2006 Ahdaf Soueif: The Heart of the Matter: Palestine in the World Today
2007 Gilbert Achcar: Orientalism in Reverse: Post 1979 Trends in French Orientalism
2008 Declan Kiberd: Edward Said and the Everyday
2010 Eyal Weizman: Spatial Politics in Israel and Palestine
2011 Mourid Barghouti
2012 Benita Parry: What’s Left in Postcolonial Studies?
2013 Samir Amin: The Implosion of the Contemporary System: A Challenge for the Societies of the South
2014 Joe Cleary
2015 Ilan Pappe
2016 Karima Bennoune
2017 Rafeef Ziadah

Princeton University

2004 Mustafa Barghouti: Prospects for Peace: The Vital Role of Civil Society in Bringing Democracy, Justice, and Prosperity to Palestine and Israel{{cite web|url=http://www.princeton.edu/~transreg/Past_news_events.html|title=The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia - Home|first=Princeton|last=University|date=|website=www.princeton.edu|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
2005 Judith Butler: Forgotten Histories of Post-Zionism: Universalism, Judaism, and the Messianic
2006 Azmi Bishara: War, Occupation and Democracy: US Strategy in the Middle East
2007 Tanya Reinhart: The Spirit of Struggle
2008 Karen AbuZayd: Palestine Refugees: Exile, Isolation and Prospects{{cite web|url=http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S20/99/12C90/|title=Princeton University - U.N. official to speak on Palestinian refugees|author=|date=|publisher=|accessdate=29 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170518031322/http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S20/99/12C90/|archive-date=18 May 2017|url-status=dead}}
2009 Amira Hass: One Occupation, Two Governments:The Onslaught On Gaza And The Palestinian Internal Rift{{cite web|url=http://www.washington-report.org/component/content/article/3096.html|title=Washington Report on Middle East Affairs - Washington Report on Middle East Affairs|author=|date=|publisher=|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
2010 Noam Chomsky: "I Am Kinda": Reflections on the Culture of Imperialism{{cite web|url=http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/76/37C54/index.xml|title=Princeton University - Noam Chomsky to speak on 'culture of imperialism'|author=|date=|publisher=|accessdate=29 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170517234634/http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/76/37C54/index.xml|archive-date=17 May 2017|url-status=dead}}
2012 Mahmood Mamdani: “Settler Colonialism: Then and Now”{{cite web|url=http://english.princeton.edu/events/edward-said-memorial-lecture|title=Edward Said Memorial Lecture - Department of English|author=|date=|website=english.princeton.edu|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
2014 Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, and United Nations Special Rapporteur, "On the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967” {{cite web|url=http://english.princeton.edu/events/annual-edward-w-said-memorial-lecture|title=The Annual Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture - Department of English|author=|date=|website=english.princeton.edu|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
2015 Tariq Ali, journalist, author and filmmaker
2016 Jaqueline Rose, Professor of Humanities at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities in London
2017 Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and chair of the Department of History at Columbia University
2019 Emily Jacir: "Where We Come From" {{cite web|url=https://humanities.princeton.edu/event/where-we-come-from-16th-annual-edward-w-said-memorial-lecture|title=The Annual Edward W. Said Memorial Lecture - Department of English|author=|date=|website=english.princeton.edu|accessdate=21 October 2019}}
2023 Mohammed El-Kurd: "Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal"

University of Adelaide

2005 Robert Fisk{{cite web|url=http://www.adelaide.edu.au/esml/transcripts/2005/|title=Edward Said Memorial Lecture|website=www.adelaide.edu.au}}
2006 Tanya Reinhart: In memory of Edward Said{{cite web|url=http://www.adelaide.edu.au/esml/transcripts/2006/|title=Edward Said Memorial Lecture|author=|date=|website=www.adelaide.edu.au|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
2007 Ghada Karmi: Israel’S Dilemma in Palestine: Origins and Solutions{{cite web|url=http://www.adelaide.edu.au/esml/transcripts/2007/|title=Edward Said Memorial Lecture|author=|date=|website=www.adelaide.edu.au|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
2008 Sara Roy: The Impossible Union of Arab and Jew: Reflections on Dissent, Remembrance and Redemption {{cite web|url=http://www.adelaide.edu.au/esml/transcripts/2008/|title=Edward Said Memorial Lecture|author=|date=|website=www.adelaide.edu.au|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
2009 Saree Makdisi: From Occupation to Reconciliation{{cite web|url=http://www.adelaide.edu.au/esml/|title=Edward Said Memorial Lecture|author=|date=|website=www.adelaide.edu.au|accessdate=29 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160112185906/http://www.adelaide.edu.au/esml/|archive-date=12 January 2016|url-status=dead}}
2010 Tariq Ali
2011 Noam Chomsky
2012 Ilan Pappe
2013 Mustafa Barghouthi
2014 John Pilger
2016 John Dugard

The American University in Cairo

2005 David Damrosch: Secular Criticism Meets the World: The Challenge of World Literature Today{{cite web|url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/769/bo2.htm|title=Al-Ahram Weekly - Books Supplement - Secular criticism meets the world|author=|date=|publisher=|accessdate=29 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091229122334/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/769/bo2.htm|archive-date=2009-12-29|url-status=dead}}
2006 Barbara Harlow: Resistance literature revisited: From Basra to Guantànamo{{cite web|url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/819/cu4.htm|title=Al-Ahram Weekly - Culture - Resistance literature revisited: From Basra to Guantànamo|author=|date=|publisher=|accessdate=29 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090807044643/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/819/cu4.htm|archive-date=2009-08-07|url-status=dead}}
2007 Cornel West: The Vocation of a Democratic Individual{{cite web|url=http://www.aucegypt.edu/|title=The American University in Cairo|author=|date=|website=The American University in Cairo|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
2008 Terry Eagleton: Terror and Tragedy{{cite web|url=http://cairocult.wordpress.com/2008/11/10/eagleton-auc/|title=Eagleton @ AUC|author=|date=10 November 2008|publisher=|accessdate=29 May 2018}}
2009 {{ill|Rokus de Groot|nl}}: Contrapuntal Intellectual: Edward Said and Music
2010 Judith Butler: "What Shall We Do Without Exile?" Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish Addressing the Future{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLgIXtaF6OA|title="What Shall We Do Without Exile" Mahmoud Darwish and Edward Said Addressing the Future|last=AUC|date=7 November 2010|publisher=|accessdate=29 May 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead Youtube links|date=February 2022}}
2011 John Carlos Rowe : "American Orientalism After Edward Said"{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m9jDmrqhXg|title=American Orientalism After Edward Said by John Carlos Rowe|last=AUC|date=2 January 2012|publisher=|accessdate=29 May 2018|via=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}{{Dead Youtube links|date=February 2022}}
2012 Michael Wood: Literature, Cinema and the Taste of Knowledge
2013 Saree Makdisi: Occidentalism: Making England Western{{cite web|title=Occidentalism: Making England Western Edward Said Memorial Lecture by Saree Makdisi|url=http://schools.aucegypt.edu/GAPP/casar/outreach/Pages/Occidentalism-Making-England-Western-Edward-Said-Memorial-Lecture-Saree-Makdisi.aspx|publisher=The American University in Cairo|accessdate=12 February 2018}}
2014 Marina Warner: Ways of Dwelling: Edward Said and the Travelling Text{{cite web|last1=Edward Said Memorial Lecture|url=http://calendar.aucegypt.edu/EventDetails.aspx?data=hHr80o3M7J7pYuAG7jvzLcrJVtq5eNMbN3OVCnw2vmbWOH2NjQdRC6Zd%2BC0ZVhY2|title=Warner Lecture|publisher=The American University in Cairo|accessdate=12 February 2018}}
2015 Lila Abu-Lughod: A Settler-Colonialism of Her Own: Imagining Palestine’s Alternatives
2016 Souleymane Bachir Diagne: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa
2017 Ussama Makdisi: Anti-Sectarianism in the Modern Arab World{{cite web|title=Edward Said Memorial Lecture by Ussama Makdisi|url=http://www.aucegypt.edu/events/edward-said-memorial-lecture-ussama-makdisi|publisher=The American University in Cairo|accessdate=12 February 2018}}
2018 Robert Young: Said’s Late Style -- A Palestinian Aesthetic
2019 Wadie Edward Said: Edward Said: Teachings, Familial and Otherwise
2022 (March) Raja Shehadeh: The Peregrinations of Memory: The Case of Palestine
2022 (November) Noam Chomsky: Global Realignments and the Prospects for a Livable World

The Jerusalem Fund

2008 Avi Shlaim and Ali Abunimah: Palestinians and Israelis: Two states or one state?{{Cite web |url=http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/a/GeneratePdfAction/url/h~ttp,!!www*thejerusalemfund*org!h~t!display!ContentDetails!i!2682!pid!897/filename/Palestinians%20and%20Israelis:%20Two.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716065057/http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/a/GeneratePdfAction/url/h~ttp,!!www*thejerusalemfund*org!h~t!display!ContentDetails!i!2682!pid!897/filename/Palestinians%20and%20Israelis:%20Two.pdf |archive-date=2011-07-16 |url-status=dead}}
2009 Richard Falk: Imagining Israel-Palestine Peace: Why International Law Matters{{Cite web |url=http://www.palestinecenterblog.org/2009/10/video-imagining-israel-palestine-peace.html |title=The Palestine Center Blog: VIDEO/TRANSCRIPT: Imagining Israel-Palestine Peace: Why International Law Matters |access-date=2010-01-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091122092951/http://www.palestinecenterblog.org/2009/10/video-imagining-israel-palestine-peace.html |archive-date=2009-11-22 |url-status=dead}}
2010 Rashid Khalidi The Palestine Question and the U.S. Public Sphere [http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/16422/pid/897 The 2010 Edward Said Memorial Lecture] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101011091713/http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/ContentDetails/i/16422/pid/897 |date=2010-10-11 }}
2012 Sara Roy: A Deliberate Cruelty: Rendering Gaza Unviable{{cite web|title=2012 Edward Said Memorial Lecture|date=10 October 2012 |url=http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/4373/2012-edward-said-memorial-lecture|publisher=The Jerusalem Fund|accessdate=11 February 2018}}
2013 Najla Said: Looking for Palestine{{cite web|title=2013 Edward Said Memorial Lecture|date=2 October 2013 |url=http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/4227/2013-edward-said-memorial-lecture-looking-for-palestine-with-ms-najla-said|publisher=The Jerusalem Fund|accessdate=11 February 2018}}
2014 Judith Butler{{cite web|title=The 2014 Edward Said Memorial Lecture with Dr. Judith Butler|date=13 October 2014 |url=http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/4044/the-2014-edward-said-memorial-lecture-with-dr-judith-butler|publisher=The Jerusalem Fund|accessdate=11 February 2018}}
2015 Cornel West: The Legacy of Edward Said{{cite web|title=The 2015 Edward Said Memorial Lecture with Dr. Cornel West|date=October 2015 |url=http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/5327/the-2015-edward-said-memorial-lecture-with-dr-cornel-west|publisher=The Jerusalem Fund|accessdate=11 February 2018}}
2016 Wadie Said: The Terrorism Label: an Examination of American Criminal Prosecutions{{cite web|title=2016 Edward Said Memorial Lecture|url=http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/events/upcoming/2016-edward-said-memorial-lecture-save-date|publisher=The Jerusalem Fund|accessdate=11 February 2018}}
2017 David Palumbo-Liu: Literature, Empathy, and Rights{{cite web|title=2017 Edward Said Memorial Lecture|date=3 November 2017 |url=http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/19875/2017-edward-said-memorial-lecture-literature-empathy-rights|publisher=The Jerusalem Fund|accessdate=11 February 2018}}
2020 Daphne Muse "The Intersections of Our Resistance and the Legacies We Leave Future Generations"{{cite web | url=https://thejerusalemfund.org/52786/2020-edward-said-memorial-lecture-with-daphne-muse-2 | title=2020 Edward Said Memorial Lecture with Daphne Muse | date=14 October 2020 }}

London Review of Books

2010 Marina Warner: Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights{{cite web|title=First annual Edward W Said lecture to take place in London|url=http://www.paltelegraph.com/world/uk-news/5834-first-annual-edward-w-said-lecture-to-take-place-in-london|publisher=Palestine Telegraph|accessdate=23 May 2012|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120906155233/http://www.paltelegraph.com/world/uk-news/5834-first-annual-edward-w-said-lecture-to-take-place-in-london|archive-date=2012-09-06|url-status=usurped}}
2011 Rashid Khalidi: Human dignity in Jerusalem{{cite web|title=Events – London Review of Books lectures|url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/channel/events/lrb_lecture_series/audio_edward_w_said_lecture.aspx|publisher=British Museum|accessdate=23 May 2012}}
2012 Ahdaf Soueif: Mina's Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution{{cite web|title=Ahdaf Soueif - Mina's Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution|url=http://www.lrbshop.co.uk/product.php?productid=55107&cat=479&page=1|publisher=London Review of Books|accessdate=23 May 2012}}
2013 Noam Chomsky: Violence & Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East{{cite web |last = Chomsky |first = Noam |date = 18 March 2013 |title = Violence & Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East |url = http://www.lrb.co.uk/2013/03/18/noam-chomsky/violence-and-dignity |work = lrb.co.uk |accessdate = 29 March 2014 }}
2014 Raja Shehadeh: Is There a Language of Peace?{{cite web |title = The 2014 Edward W. Said London Lecture: Is There a Language of Peace? |url = http://www.mosaicrooms.org/edward-w-said-london-lecture-2/ |work = mosaicrooms.org |date = 3 November 2013 |accessdate = 29 March 2014 }}
2015 Daniel Barenboim: The Role of Music in Life{{cite web|title=Edward W. Said London Lecture 2015: Daniel Barenboim|url=http://mosaicrooms.org/event/2015-edward-w-said-london-lecture-music-life-life-music/|publisher=The Mosaic Rooms|accessdate=11 February 2018}}
2016 Naomi Klein: Let them Drown - The Violence of Othering in a Warming World{{cite web|title=Naomi Klein: Let them Drown - The Violence of Othering in a Warming World|date=10 May 2016 |url=https://vimeo.com/166018049|publisher=The Mosaic Rooms|accessdate=11 February 2018}}
2017 Mahmood Mamdani: Justice Not Revenge – Examining the Concept of Revolutionary Justice{{cite web|title=Edward W Said London Lecture 2017 - Mahmood Mamdani: Justice Not Revenge - Examining the Concept of Revolutionary Justice|date=12 April 2017 |url=https://vimeo.com/212930487|publisher=The Mosaic Rooms|accessdate=11 February 2018}}
2018 Amira Hass: The Preventable: Israeli Fantasies and Techniques of Population Expulsion{{cite web|title=Edward W. Said London Lecture 2018|url=http://mosaicrooms.org/event/edward-w-said-london-lecture-2018/|publisher=The Mosaic Rooms|accessdate=11 February 2018}}
2019 Wadie Said, Susan M. Akram, Hassan Jabareen & Philippe Sands: Is Justice Still Possible? Palestine, International Law, and Public Discourse{{cite web |title=Edward W Said London Lecture |url=https://mosaicrooms.org/edward-w-said-london-lecture/ |publisher=The Mosaic Room |access-date=28 September 2023}}
2022 Abdulrazak Gurnah
2023 Francesca Albanese: Israel's Settler Colonialism: Law, Humanity, Empire{{cite web |title=Edward W. Said London Lecture 2023: Francesca Albanese |url=https://mosaicrooms.org/event/edward-w-said-london-lecture-2023-francesca-albanese/ |publisher=The Mosaic Room |access-date=28 September 2023}}
2024 Raji Sourani: Is the Gaza War the End of International Humanitarian Law?{{Cite web |title=Raji Sourani: Is the Gaza War the end of International Humanitarian Law? |url=https://mosaicrooms.org/event/edward-w-said-london-lecture-2024-raji-sourani/ |access-date=2024-10-15 |website=The Mosaic Rooms |language=en}}

Barenboim-Said Akademie

In 2018, Mena Mark Hanna, dean of the Barenboim-Said Akademie, launched the Edward W. Said Days,{{cite news|title=Edward Said: a legacy of speaking truth to power|url=https://www.ft.com/content/8d611c08-31b8-11e8-b5bf-23cb17fd1498|newspaper=The Financial Times|date=30 March 2018 |accessdate=30 March 2018}} a three-day interdisciplinary festival reflecting upon the legacy of Said's thought. Each festival is thematic and features three keynote speakers, an artistic exhibition, films, and guest musical artists.

2018 "On Late Style": Teju Cole, Linda Hutcheon, Raja Shehadeh, and the Michelangelo String Quartet.{{cite web|title=Edward W. Said Days: On Late Style|url=https://boulezsaal.de/on-late-style|publisher=The Boulez Saal|accessdate=9 October 2018}}
2019 "On Counterpoint": Michael Wood, Adania Shibli, Sa'ed Atshan, The Tallis Scholars, and Akinbode Akinbiyi.{{cite web|title=Edward W. Said Days: On Counterpoint|url=https://boulezsaal.de/edward-w-said-days-on-counterpoint|publisher=The Boulez Saal|accessdate=14 December 2018}}
2020 "Culture and Power" (postponed to 2021): Alex Ross, Elizabeth Wilson, Laleh Khalili, Elaine Mitchener, Gilbert Nouno, Michael Wendeberg, Jean Kalman, and Abdo Shanan.{{cite web|title=Edward W. Said Days: Culture and Power|url=https://boulezsaal.de/edward-w-said-days-culture-and-power|publisher=The Boulez Saal|accessdate=12 February 2020}}

References

Said

Memorial lectures