In this event, Marsha Henry, Alice Panepinto and John Reynolds will be in-conversation with Lana Tatour about her co-edited volume, Race and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2025).

The book, co-edited with Ronit Lentin, maintains that the colonization of Palestine cannot be understood outside the grammar of race, and it stresses the importance of locating Palestine within global histories and present politics of imperialism, settler colonialism, capitalism, and heteropatriarchy.  They will discuss the longstanding tradition of theorizing race in Palestine studies, race and international law, the politics of racialization, anti-Palestinian racism, and Israel’s current war on Gaza. 

Dr Lana Tatour is a Senior Lecturer in Global Development at the University of New South Wales, and an Associate at the Australian Human Rights Institute.  She is a scholar of settler colonialism, indigeneity, race, and citizenship, with a focus on Palestine.  Her coedited book, Race and the Question of Palestine was published in 2025 with Stanford University Press.  She is currently completing her monograph, Colonized Citizens: Liberalism, Settler Colonialism, and Palestinian resistance. Lana is also a public commentator.  She has appeared on ABC News, the BBC, and TRT World, and her publications have appeared in The Guardian, Al-Jazeera, Mondoweiss, Middle East Eye, The Age, Overland, and more.

Professor Marsha Henry is the Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women, Peace, Security and Justice.  Her research is concerned with the gendered and racialised politics of violence; militarisation; global south development; international aid and intervention; and conflict, peace, and security.  She is the author of several books, the latest of which is: The End of Peacekeeping:  Gender, Race, and the Martial Politics of Intervention (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2024).  Marsha has also advised a number of national governments on women’s participation in the armed forces, combatting sexual exploitation and abuse in humanitarian settings, and developing anti-racist and diversity strategies in foreign policy ministries.

Dr Alice Panepinto is a Mitchell Institute Fellow and Reader at the School of Law, Queen's University Belfast. Alice is an international and comparative lawyer focusing on human rights and humanitarian law, and has a regional specialism in the 'Middle East' and particularly Palestine where she worked in a non-academic role prior to returning to academia. Alice's monograph, Truth and Transitional Justice: Localising the International Legal Framework in Muslim Majority Legal Systems (Hart, 2022), investigates synergies between international law and Islamic law in furthering truth-seeking. Between 2020-24 she led, as PI, a project funded by AHRC on the forced displacement of Palestinian Bedouin communities in the West Bank, resulting in an edited book,  Ending Impunity for International Law Violations: Palestinian Bedouins and the Risk of Forced Displacement (Hart, 2025) and an accompanying documentary film, We Will Remain. 

Dr John Reynolds is an Associate Professor at the School of Law at Maynooth University. John's research focuses on questions of international law in relation to colonialism, racism/apartheid, emergency, and political economy.  His work is informed by and engages with the insights of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL).  John's book on Empire, Emergency and International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2017) was awarded the Kevin Boyle Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship.  John works with various activist groups, social movements and civil society organisations. He was appointed to Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs Civil Society Standing Committee on Human Rights in 2015. 

This event is hosted in partnership with the School of Law, Queen’s University Belfast.