Imagine Palestine - Negotiating Voice and Silence: Palestinian Representation in Israel’s Public Space
How is Palestinian identity and belonging shaped and contested in Israel’s public space? In this seminar, Rawia Hayik explores how language, visual expressions, and cultural practices can both make Palestinian voices, memories, and experiences visible and silence them. Public seminar at Humanisten with the Imagine Palestine research network. All interested are welcome!
Dr. Rawia Hayik is a senior lecturer and serves as the head of the English Department at Sakhnin Academic College for Teacher Education, Israel. She finished her PhD in the Literacy, Culture, and Language Education Department at Indiana University in the United States. Recently, she was a visiting scholar in the Near Eastern Languages and Cultures department at UCLA, USA. Her academic work bridges theory and practice, examining how language education intersects with power, national narratives, and citizenship.
This talk examines how Palestinian presence, identity, and belonging are negotiated in the public space in Israel through language, visual symbols, graffiti, and cultural practices. Drawing on linguistic landscape research in Nazareth and other Palestinian and mixed spaces, it explores how processes of silencing and erasure are challenged through everyday acts of linguistic and semiotic citizenship that reinscribe Palestinian voice, memory, and agency.
