BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Shrines Under Siege: (De)Colonizing Sacred Spaces and Temporali ties in Occupied PalestineDr. Sandy Marshall\, Elon UniversityThroughout h istoric Palestine\, hundreds of shrines once served as vibrant spaces of m ulti-religious devotion\, centers of women's everyday spiritual practice\, and nodes within wider networks of mobility and pilgrimage. Today\, acces s to these sites has largely been cut off by the Israeli occupation\, and many of these shrines have been destroyed or otherwise transformed into si tes of settler colonial conquest\, occupation\, and resistance. This talk explores the shifting significance of such sites in the northern West Bank near Nablus\, including the maqamat (shrines) of Sheikh Bilal\, Salman al -Farsi\, and Nabi Uzair. Through multi-generational oral history interview s\, this research documents the ongoing fracturing and desacralization of the cultural landscape in Palestine. At the same time\, these narratives\, deeply rooted in the physical terrain of sacred springs and holy trees\, in the deep time of religious folk memory\, and in the cyclical temporalit ies of seasonal change\, also provide vantage points from which to imagine the land of Palestine outside of lineal chronologies of conflict and line ar boundaries of territorial demarcation. \; DTEND:20241009T210000Z DTSTAMP:20260512T020453Z DTSTART:20241009T194500Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Shrines Under Siege: (De)Colonizing Sacred Spaces and Temporalities in Occupied Palestine UID:RFCALITEM639141338936252350 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Shrines Under Siege: (De)Colonizing Sacred Spaces and Temporalities in Occupied Palestine

Dr. Sandy Marshall \, Elon University

Throughout historic Palestine\, hundreds of shrines once served as vib rant spaces of multi-religious devotion\, centers of women's everyday spir itual practice\, and nodes within wider networks of mobility and pilgrimag e. Today\, access to these sites has largely been cut off by the Israeli o ccupation\, and many of these shrines have been destroyed or otherwise tra nsformed into sites of settler colonial conquest\, occupation\, and resist ance. This talk explores the shifting significance of such sites in the no rthern West Bank near Nablus\, including the maqamat (shrines) of Sheikh B ilal\, Salman al-Farsi\, and Nabi Uzair. Through multi-generational oral h istory interviews\, this research documents the ongoing fracturing and des acralization of the cultural landscape in Palestine. At the same time\, th ese narratives\, deeply rooted in the physical terrain of sacred springs a nd holy trees\, in the deep time of religious folk memory\, and in the cyc lical temporalities of seasonal change\, also provide vantage points from which to imagine the land of Palestine outside of lineal chronologies of c onflict and linear boundaries of territorial demarcation.

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