Present Continuous: On Palestinian Land, Labor and Economy

Saturday, July 5, 2025 – Sunday, July 6, 2025 10:00 am – 9:00 pm CET/GMT+1 

Spore Initiative, Hermannstraße 86, 12051 Berlin

The two-day symposium explores the present realities of bulldozer capitalism: where real estate speculation, destruction of land, techno-centric planning, and settler colonialism converge. By tracing these patterns of capital accumulation, the symposium will attempt to reconcile how this extends legacies of colonial domination and economic, spatial control over people, land, and resources of Palestine. Through panels, workshops, and artistic interventions, the symposium offers the space to discuss how the prisms of land, labor, industry, energy, and infrastructure can help us understand the economic architecture of the occupation over the past century, while reflecting on how these logics of economic domination have been resisted and are being reimagined for alternative futures. Organized by Jule Ulbricht and Gale Raj.

View the full program here.

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