A Duel Between Memories: (Special Session) at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association (PAMLA) Conference 2025

Jewish Israelis and Palestinian Arabs have, through literature, songs, poetry, film, and other media, constructed two very different understandings of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict's history. This session invites papers that address any aspect of the role that literature and/or other media have played in creating, maintaining, and disseminating two distinct narratives. Proposals related to the conference theme of "Palimpsests: Memory and Oblivion" are preferred but not required.

Potential topics include:

- Juxtaposing the portrayal of the conflict and "other" between Jewish Israeli and Palestinian school textbooks

- Cinematic representations of Palestinians compared to Israelis within Israeli films such as Beaufort, The Bubble, and Waltz with Bashir

- Differing memories about the conflict in the works of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and Israeli author Moshe Shamir

- Analyzing the reasoning behind Israeli criticisms of the Palestinian narrative presented in the 2024 documentary No Other Land

If interested, please submit abstracts to the following site by May 15th, 2025:

https://pamla.ballastacademic.com/Home/S/19590 

Contact Information

If you have any questions, please contact:

Sebastian Prieto-Keith, Western Washington University: sebastian.prieto.keith@gmail.com 

And Cc:

Andrea Gogrof, Western Washington University: agogrof@gmail.com