The Colonizing Self, or: Home and Homelessness in Israel/Palestine About this Event and The Centre for Palestine Studies at SOAS, University of London, will host Professor Rashid Khalidi (Columbia), Dr Jeanne Morefield (Birmingham) and Dr Rahul Rao (SOAS) in conversation. Dr Hagar Kotef (SOAS) will respond. Chair: Dr Sarah El-Kazaz (SOAS) The Colonizing Self explores the cultural, political, and theoretical apparatuses that enable people and nations to construct a home on the ruins of other people’s homes or to feel that they belong to spaces of dispossession. Moving from readings of Locke and contemporary Israeli TV shows to theorizations of settlers’ violence, Kotef examines the affectual conditions of settler colonialism, showing how violence itself can become an object of attachment in settler societies.