I'm excited to be speaking on and chairing several panels during the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in Detroit. 

First, I've been helping to organize the Geographers for Justice in Palestine pre-conference on Sunday March 23. We have in person and virtual attendance options. Please register by March 8! 

During the main AAG Annual Meeting, you can find me at the following panels: 

Tuesday March 25
8:30 AM - 9:50 AM

Decolonial Methodologies from Palestine to the Americas
I will be chairing this roundtable, an exciting conversation between Palestinian geographers, North American Indigenous geographers and scholars of Indigenous geography in the Americas.

Thursday March 27

12:50-2:10 PM
Geographies of Colonial debris in Palestine I
I will be delivering a paper titled "Ecological Crisis As Structure, Not Event: Lessons from Jenin, Palestine." 

4:10 PM - 5:30 PM 
Intersectional Feminist Approaches to Climate Justice, Part 4: Common Threads and Future Directions

I will be speaking about Palestine as a feminist and climate justice issue alongside these incredible feminist geographers. 

The rest of the week you can probably find me at the other Geographers for Justice in Palestine sessions & related sessions!

On Thursday 13 March at 9 AM PT/12 PM ET/5 PM GMT, I'll be delivering a short talk alongside Dr. Omar Jabary Salamanca. The talk abstract is below. Thank you to the Military Surplus: Toxicity Industry and War network within the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities at University of Cambridge for bringing me for this talk. 
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Gabi Kirk
‘Ecological Crisis as Structure: The Long Siege of Jenin’

Long considered the breadbasket of Palestine, Jenin’s role in agrarian production for local and global markets has been shifted and constrained by a series of imperial and settler colonial powers. Before and after October 7, 2023, the villages and hinterlands of the Jenin Governorate in the northern West Bank were and remain under siege from Israel’s occupation and ongoing Nakba. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and historical archival research, I ask, what is the temporality and spatiality of life under siege in Jenin? How do farmers and rural denizens navigate the siege that is enacted through and on their social and ecological worlds, and what do they dream of when the siege ends? The long siege of Jenin challenges a binary of “slow” vs. spectacular violence. Finally, I analyze the power and the pitfalls of recent abstractions of Palestine as a harbinger of eco-apartheid and “sieges to come” for our political movements.