Reckoning with October 7

Israel, Hamas, and the Problem of Critical Theory

A TPPI Webinar Series

Sexual Violence, Feminism, and the Hamas Massacre

The third webinar in the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute’s yearlong series reckoning with the response to October 7 will take place on Thursday, March 7, 2024, at noon Eastern Time.

Click here to register for the event.

All subsequent panels are likewise scheduled for noon Eastern Time on the seventh day of each month. Panels will run between 90 to 120 minutes, followed by a colloquy among the panelists and audience Q&A.

Our third webinar considers feminist perspectives on sex and violence in the Israel–Hamas conflict. Our panelists are Mariam Memarsadeghi and Batya Ungar-Sargon. Our respondent is Nina Power.

How to Register

Registration for each panel via Eventbrite is required. Register for the upcoming panel here. All future Telos-Paul Piccone webinars will be managed through the Eventbrite portal.

After registering, you will be given an option to retrieve your tickets to the event. You will also receive a reminder via email both two days and thirty minutes before the webinar.

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For more information about the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute’s Israel Initiative, click here.

Participant Biographies

Panelists

Mariam Memarsadeghi is a leading proponent for a democratic Iran and founder and director of the Cyrus Forum for Iran’s Future, an initiative to foster dialogue and thought leadership for Iran’s democratic transition. Her political commentary and analysis have appeared in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Tablet, the National Interest, The Hill, the Globe and Mail, the Jerusalem Post, Bulwark, Al Arabiya, American Purpose, Quillette, Caravan, and other publications. She is a frequent speaker at universities and think tanks worldwide and provides commentary on TV news programs, including Iranian, Arab, and Israeli channels. Follow her on X (formerly Twitter) @memarsadeghi.

Batya Ungar-Sargon is the Deputy Opinion Editor of Newsweek. She is the author of Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America’s Working Men and Women (currently in press with Encounter Books) and Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy (2023). The former Opinion Editor of the Forward, the largest Jewish media outlet in the United States, she has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books Daily, and Foreign Policy. She has also appeared frequently on MSNBC, NBC, the Brian Lehrer Show, and National Public Radio. She attended high school in Israel and holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Follow her on X (formerly Twitter) @bungarsargon.

Respondent

Nina Power, author of One Dimensional Woman (2009) and What Do Men Want? Masculinity and Its Discontents (2022), is Senior Editor and columnist at Compact magazine. She holds a Ph.D. from Middlesex University and was formerly Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at University of Roehampton. She currently serves as Senior Research Fellow at the Global Centre for Advanced Studies (GCAS). Follow her on X (formerly Twitter) @Nina_Compact.

Moderator and Host

Our panel’s moderator is Gabriel Noah Brahm (aka Gabi Abramovich). Brahm is Director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute’s Israel Initiative, Professor of English and World Literature at Northern Michigan University, and Visiting Researcher in Political Science at Tel Aviv University. A frequent contributor to The American Mind, Fathom, Perspectives on Political Science, Society, and Telos, he is co-editor, with Cary Nelson, of The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel (2014). He received his B.A. from UCLA and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @Brahmski.