States of Exception Workshop Program

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States of Exception, Surveillance and Population Management:
The Case of Israel/Palestine


Larnaca, Cyprus
December 6 - 7, 2008

Check-in: Friday, December 5

Day One: Saturday, December 6

8:45 – 9:00 am Welcoming Statement by Elia Zureik on Behalf of the Organizing Committee


9:00 – 10:30 Panel (A): Theories of Surveillance in Conflict Zones


Panel Chair: Yasmeen Abu-Laban
(1) David Lyon
Identification, colonialism and control: Surveillant sorting in Israel/Palestine

(2) Elia Zureik
State of Exception, Surveillance and Population Management: The Case of Israel/Palestine: An Overview of Research

(3) Glenn Bowman
Israel’s Wall and the Logic of Encystation.

10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break 15 minutes

10:45 - 12:30 Panel (B): Civilian Surveillance


Panel Chair: Glenn Bowman
(1) Ahmad Sa’di
Goals of Political Control: The first two decades

(2) Hillel Cohen
The Matrix of Surveillance in Times of National Conflict: The Israeli-Palestinian Case

(3) Tamara Neuman
Surveillance from the Summits: The “Civilian” Presence in the Settlements as a Form of Population Management.

(4) Tamir Sorek
Surveillance of Memory and Self Censorship: Cautious Commemoration of the Nakba

Lunch: 12:30 – 1:45 pm

1:45- 3:15 Panel (C): Political Economy and Globalization of Surveillance


Panel Chair: David Lyon
(1) Steven Graham
Laboratories of War: US-Israeli Collaboration and Urban Securitisation

(2) Neve Gordon
The Art of Homeland Security: The Political Economy of Israeli Experience

(3) Nick Denes
Israel’s UAV Industries at the “Frontiers”: Looking Beyond Military Application.

3:15 - 3:45 Coffee Break 30 minutes

3:45 – 5:30 Panel (D): Resistance to Surveillance


Panel Chair: Ronit Lentin
(1) Omar Jabary Salamanca
Life-Support Systems, Bio-power and Resistance: Insights from the West Bank.

(2) Nigel Parsons
Israeli biopolitics, Palestinian policing: Order and resistance in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

(3) Sari Hanafi
Spacio-cide: Colonial Politics, Invisibility and Re-Zoning in Palestinian Territory

(4) Oren Yiftachel
‘Grey Spaces’ as a (Fragile) System of Control: Zionist Colonialism and the Bedouins

Dinner: 7:00

Day Two: Sunday, December 7

9:00 – 10:45 Panel (E): Surveillance and Control of Space


Panel Chair: Kirstie Ball
(1) Daniel Monterescu
The Banality of Neo-Liberal Urban Planning: Gated Communities and the Politics of Palestinian Dispossession in Jaffa.

(2) Ariel Handel
Technology of Uncertainty in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: State of Exception and Spatial Control

(3) Nir Gazit
Social Agency and Surveillance in the Occupied Territories.

(4) Vida Bajc
Surveillance and Security in Public Events: Pope John Paul II in Jerusalem

10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break 15 minutes

11:00 – 12:45 Panel (F): Territory and Population Management in Conflict Zones


Panel Chair: Elia Zureik
(1) Rassem Khamaisi
Territorial Dispossession and Population Control

(2) Michael Fischbach
The Importance of British and Zionist Data Gathering on Palestinian Arab Land Ownership and Population during the Mandate

(3) Nurhan Abujidi
The Palestinian Occupied Territories as Laboratories of the 21st century Spatial
Order

(4) Anat Leibler
The Six-Day war Census: Palestinians under the Statistical Gaze.

Lunch: 12:45 – 2:00 pm

2:00 – 3:45 Panel (G): Categorization and Racialization in State of Exception


Panel Chair: Mark Salter
(1) Eyal Weizman and Yotam Feldman
Palestine as a Laboratory for Counter Insurgency: The Operational Theory Research Institute of the Israeli Defence Forces
(2) Ronit Lentin
Racial State and State of Exception.

(3) Yasmeen Abu-Laban and Abigail B. Bakan
Israel’s Social Sorting before and after 9/11 and the Globalization of the War on Terror.

(4) Khaled Furani
Writing in a State of Exception

3:45 - 4:00 Coffee Break 15 minutes

4:00 - 5:30 Panel (H): Citizenship Criteria and State Construction


Panel Chair: Neve Gordon
(1) Usama Halabi
Legal Analysis and Critique of Some Surveillance Methods used by Israel.

(2) Samera Esmeir
Securing Palestine: The Role of Experts.
(3) Helga Tawil Souri
Orange, Green, and Blue: Color-Coded Paperwork for Palestinian Population Control.
(4) Ilana Feldman
“Altogether Unique in History”: UN Peacekeeping and Security in Gaza

5:30 Concluding Remarks by David Lyon

5:45 - 6:45 pm The New Transparency Research Team Meeting


Dinner: 7:30 pm

Day Three: Monday, December 8

Hotel check-out.
Field trip (morning), ending at 12 noon.