Since Edward Said's death in 2003, several institutions have instituted annual lecture series in his memory, including Columbia University,[1] University of Warwick, Princeton University, University of Adelaide,[2] 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
[edit]University of Warwick
[edit]Princeton University
[edit]- 2004 Mustafa Barghouti: Prospects for Peace: The Vital Role of Civil Society in Bringing Democracy, Justice, and Prosperity to Palestine and Israel[15]
- 2005 Judith Butler: Forgotten Histories of Post-Zionism: Universalism, Judaism, and the Messianic[15]
- 2006 Azmi Bishara: War, Occupation and Democracy: US Strategy in the Middle East[15]
- 2007 Tanya Reinhart: The Spirit of Struggle[15]
- 2008 Karen AbuZayd: Palestine Refugees: Exile, Isolation and Prospects[16]
- 2009 Amira Hass: One Occupation, Two Governments:The Onslaught On Gaza And The Palestinian Internal Rift[17]
- 2010 Noam Chomsky: "I Am Kinda": Reflections on the Culture of Imperialism[18]
- 2012 Mahmood Mamdani: “Settler Colonialism: Then and Now”[19]
- 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” [20]
- 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
University of Adelaide
[edit]The American University in Cairo
[edit]- 2005 David Damrosch: Secular Criticism Meets the World: The Challenge of World Literature Today[26]
- 2006 Barbara Harlow: Resistance literature revisited: From Basra to Guantànamo[27]
- 2007 Cornel West: The Vocation of a Democratic Individual[28]
- 2008 Terry Eagleton: Terror and Tragedy[29]
- 2009 Rokus de Groot [nl]: Contrapuntal Intellectual: Edward Said and Music[28]
- 2010 Judith Butler: "What Shall We Do Without Exile?" Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish Addressing the Future[30]
- 2011 John Carlos Rowe : "American Orientalism After Edward Said"[31]
- 2012 Michael Wood: Literature, Cinema and the Taste of Knowledge
- 2013 Saree Makdisi: Occidentalism: Making England Western[32]
- 2014 Marina Warner: Ways of Dwelling: Edward Said and the Travelling Text[33]
- 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[34]
- 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
- 2008 Avi Shlaim and Ali Abunimah: Palestinians and Israelis: Two states or one state?[35]
- 2009 Richard Falk: Imagining Israel-Palestine Peace: Why International Law Matters[36]
- 2010 Rashid Khalidi The Palestine Question and the U.S. Public Sphere [37]
- 2012 Sara Roy: A Deliberate Cruelty: Rendering Gaza Unviable[38]
- 2013 Najla Said: Looking for Palestine[39]
- 2014 Judith Butler[40]
- 2015 Cornel West: The Legacy of Edward Said[41]
- 2016 Wadie Said: The Terrorism Label: an Examination of American Criminal Prosecutions[42]
- 2017 David Palumbo-Liu: Literature, Empathy, and Rights[43]
- 2020 Daphne Muse "The Intersections of Our Resistance and the Legacies We Leave Future Generations"[44]
London Review of Books
[edit]Barenboim-Said Akademie
[edit]In 2018, Mena Mark Hanna, dean of the Barenboim-Said Akademie, launched the Edward W. Said Days,[56] 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.[57]
- 2019 "On Counterpoint": Michael Wood, Adania Shibli, Sa'ed Atshan, The Tallis Scholars, and Akinbode Akinbiyi.[58]
- 2020 "Culture and Power" (postponed to 2021): Alex Ross, Elizabeth Wilson, Laleh Khalili, Elaine Mitchener, Gilbert Nouno, Michael Wendeberg, Jean Kalman, and Abdo Shanan.[59]