List of previous lectures and recordings
Program
Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 7 pm Palestine time
Eyal Weizman, architect, founder and director of Forensic Architecture
Title: A Conversation with Eyal Weizman
Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 7 pm Palestine time
Panelists:
- Leila Farsakh, Palestinian political economist and full Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston
- Diana Buttu, Palestinian-Canadian lawyer specializing in international law and human rights
- Mouin Rabbani, Dutch-Palestinian analyst and journalist specializing in the Arab-Israeli conflict and Palestinian affairs
- Rami Khouri, Rami Khouri is a Palestinian-Jordanian-American journalist, editor, and academic at the American University of Beirut
Title: TBA – Panel Discussion
Wednesday, February 10, 2027, 7 pm Palestine time
Lotte Buche Segal, Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology in The University of Edinburgh’s School of Social and Political Science.
Title: TBA
Wednesday, April 14, 2027, 7 pm Palestine time
Adam Shatz, US editor of The London Review of Books
Title: A Conversation with Adam Shatz
Wednesday, May 14, 2027, 7 pm Palestine time
Sara Roy, American political economist and Associate of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies specializing in the Palestinian economy, Palestinian Islamism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Title: TBA
Objectives
In concert with Scientists for Palestine and the Bisan Center for Research and Development, and in keeping with their joint commitment to full integration of Palestine in the global community of learning, the Bisan Lecture Series sponsors discourses on subjects of cultural, scientific, and societal importance by leading research experts and public intellectuals of varied heritage and viewpoint. The interactive webinars are free and open to the public, and recordings of each will be posted soon afterward.
Bisan Center for Research and Development
The Bisan Center is a non-governmental, nonprofit, democratic and progressive Civil Society Organization (CSO) that seeks to enhance Palestinian abilities and potentials for building an active civil and democratic community. The Bisan Center was established in 1989 and officially registered with the Palestinian Ministry of Interior in 2004.
The Bisan Center aligns itself with the poor and marginalized in Palestinian society, as it works to support their struggle in advancing their socioeconomic rights and builds partnerships with other progressive institutions. Among other activities, the Bisan Center regularly produces research reports centered on various problems of development, gender, youth, and social justice. These reports are published (in Arabic) in its annual journal Al-Taqadomi, which is peer-reviewed and focused on issues of development.
Steering Committee
