POSTPONED: Illume College Lecture: John Halaka, MFA- Vanishing Harvest: Meditations on the Death and Resurrection of Palestinian Agriculture
Date and Time
Monday, April 6, 2020
This event occurred in the past
- Monday, April 6, 2020 from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Location
Saints Tekakwitha and Serra Hall, 200, Humanities Center
5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110Cost
Free
Sponsor(s)
Details
This event is postoned as a preventive measure to reduce risk related to the COVID-19 virus. Visit the university’s COVID-19 website for the most current information for the USD community. This event will be scheduled in the 2020-21 academic year.
Halaka’s project employs the tools of oral history, photography and drawing to investigate the existential threats undermining the agrarian traditions of Palestine and the livelihood of its farmers. Through first-person narratives from Palestinian farmers and agronomists, he observed how economic, environmental and cultural pressures, greatly exacerbated by a 52-year military occupation, have severely restricted the effectiveness of Palestine’s once-thriving agrarian culture.
Reception to follow.
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