List of Edward Said memorial lectures

Since Edward Said's death in 2003, several institutions have instituted annual lecture series in his memory, including Columbia University,^[1] University of Warwick, Princeton University, University of Adelaide,^[2] The American University in Cairo, London Review of Books, the Barenboim-Said Akademie and Palestine Center, with such notables speaking as Daniel Barenboim, Noam Chomsky, Robert Fisk, Marina Warner and Cornel West.

Columbia University

• 2005 Daniel Barenboim: Wagner, Israel and Palestine ^[3]
• 2006 Frank Kermode: Living On the Hyphen: Yeats, Anglo-Irish Poet^[4]
• 2007 David Bromwich: Moral Imagination^[5]
• 2008 Adonis: A Reading and a Recital^[6]
• 2009 Noam Chomsky: The Unipolar Moment and the Culture of Imperialism^[7]
• 2011 Ahdaf Soueif: Notes from the Egyptian Revolution ^[8]
• 2012 W. J. T. Mitchell: Seeing Madness: Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture^[9]
• 2013 Raja Shehadeh: Is There a Language of Peace? Palestine Today and the Categorization of Domination^[10]
• 2014 Richard Falk: The Palestinian Future After Gaza^[11]
• 2015 Declan Kiberd: The Future of the Past: Revival Ireland 1891-1922^[12]
• 2017 Catherine Hall: Imaginative Geographies of the Black/White Atlantic^[13]

University of Warwick

• 2004 Tim Brennan: The Politics of Belief^[14]
• 2005 Tariq Ali: Palestine & The Western Liberal Conscience^[14]
• 2006 Ahdaf Soueif: The Heart of the Matter: Palestine in the World Today^[14]
• 2007 Gilbert Achcar: Orientalism in Reverse: Post 1979 Trends in French Orientalism^[14]
• 2008 Declan Kiberd: Edward Said and the Everyday^[14]
• 2010 Eyal Weizman: Spatial Politics in Israel and Palestine^[14]
• 2011 Mourid Barghouti
• 2012 Benita Parry: What’s Left in Postcolonial Studies?^[14]
• 2013 Samir Amin: The Implosion of the Contemporary System: A Challenge for the Societies of the South^[14]
• 2014 Joe Cleary
• 2015 Ilan Pappe
• 2016 Karima Bennoune
• 2017 Rafeef Ziadah

Princeton University

• 2004 Mustafa Barghouti: Prospects for Peace: The Vital Role of Civil Society in Bringing Democracy, Justice, and Prosperity to Palestine and Israel^[15]
• 2005 Judith Butler: Forgotten Histories of Post-Zionism: Universalism, Judaism, and the Messianic^[15]
• 2006 Azmi Bishara: War, Occupation and Democracy: US Strategy in the Middle East^[15]
• 2007 Tanya Reinhart: The Spirit of Struggle^[15]
• 2008 Karen AbuZayd: Palestine Refugees: Exile, Isolation and Prospects^[16]
• 2009 Amira Hass: One Occupation, Two Governments:The Onslaught On Gaza And The Palestinian Internal Rift^[17]
• 2010 Noam Chomsky: "I Am Kinda": Reflections on the Culture of Imperialism^[18]
• 2012 Mahmood Mamdani: “Settler Colonialism: Then and Now”^[19]
• 2014 Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University, and United Nations Special Rapporteur, "On the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967” ^[20]
• 2015 Tariq Ali, journalist, author and filmmaker
• 2016 Jaqueline Rose, Professor of Humanities at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities in London
• 2017 Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies and chair of the Department of History at Columbia University
• 2019 Emily Jacir: "Where We Come From" ^[21]
• 2023 Mohammed El-Kurd: "Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal"

University of Adelaide

• 2005 Robert Fisk^[22]
• 2006 Tanya Reinhart: In memory of Edward Said^[23]
• 2007 Ghada Karmi: Israel’S Dilemma in Palestine: Origins and Solutions^[24]
• 2008 Sara Roy: The Impossible Union of Arab and Jew: Reflections on Dissent, Remembrance and Redemption ^[25]
• 2009 Saree Makdisi: From Occupation to Reconciliation^[26]
• 2010 Tariq Ali
• 2011 Noam Chomsky
• 2012 Ilan Pappe
• 2013 Mustafa Barghouthi
• 2014 John Pilger
• 2016 John Dugard

The American University in Cairo

• 2005 David Damrosch: Secular Criticism Meets the World: The Challenge of World Literature Today^[27]
• 2006 Barbara Harlow: Resistance literature revisited: From Basra to Guantànamo^[28]
• 2007 Cornel West: The Vocation of a Democratic Individual^[29]
• 2008 Terry Eagleton: Terror and Tragedy^[30]
• 2009 Rokus de Groot [nl]: Contrapuntal Intellectual: Edward Said and Music^[29]
• 2010 Judith Butler: "What Shall We Do Without Exile?" Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish Addressing the Future^[31]
• 2011 John Carlos Rowe : "American Orientalism After Edward Said"^[32]
• 2012 Michael Wood: Literature, Cinema and the Taste of Knowledge
• 2013 Saree Makdisi: Occidentalism: Making England Western^[33]
• 2014 Marina Warner: Ways of Dwelling: Edward Said and the Travelling Text^[34]
• 2015 Lila Abu-Lughod: A Settler-Colonialism of Her Own: Imagining Palestine’s Alternatives
• 2016 Souleymane Bachir Diagne: Reflections on Philosophy in Africa
• 2017 Ussama Makdisi: Anti-Sectarianism in the Modern Arab World^[35]
• 2018 Robert Young: Said’s Late Style -- A Palestinian Aesthetic
• 2019 Wadie Edward Said: Edward Said: Teachings, Familial and Otherwise
• 2022 (March) Raja Shehadeh: The Peregrinations of Memory: The Case of Palestine
• 2022 (November) Noam Chomsky: Global Realignments and the Prospects for a Livable World

The Jerusalem Fund

• 2008 Avi Shlaim and Ali Abunimah: Palestinians and Israelis: Two states or one state?^[36]
• 2009 Richard Falk: Imagining Israel-Palestine Peace: Why International Law Matters^[37]
• 2010 Rashid Khalidi The Palestine Question and the U.S. Public Sphere ^[38]
• 2012 Sara Roy: A Deliberate Cruelty: Rendering Gaza Unviable^[39]
• 2013 Najla Said: Looking for Palestine^[40]
• 2014 Judith Butler^[41]
• 2015 Cornel West: The Legacy of Edward Said^[42]
• 2016 Wadie Said: The Terrorism Label: an Examination of American Criminal Prosecutions^[43]
• 2017 David Palumbo-Liu: Literature, Empathy, and Rights^[44]
• 2020 Daphne Muse: The Intersections of Our Resistance and the Legacies We Leave Future Generations^[45]
• 2021 Susan Abulhawa: Visualizing Israel’s Global Arms Hustling^[46]
• 2022 Jennifer Zacharia: Silencing Palestinian Voices^[47]
• 2023 Wadie E. Said: A Life Between Scholarship and Resistance^[48]
• 2024 Moustafa Bayoumi: The Question of Palestine in America^[49]

London Review of Books

• 2010 Marina Warner: Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights^[50]
• 2011 Rashid Khalidi: Human dignity in Jerusalem^[51]
• 2012 Ahdaf Soueif: Mina's Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution^[52]
• 2013 Noam Chomsky: Violence & Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East^[53]
• 2014 Raja Shehadeh: Is There a Language of Peace?^[54]
• 2015 Daniel Barenboim: The Role of Music in Life^[55]
• 2016 Naomi Klein: Let them Drown - The Violence of Othering in a Warming World^[56]
• 2017 Mahmood Mamdani: Justice Not Revenge – Examining the Concept of Revolutionary Justice^[57]
• 2018 Amira Hass: The Preventable: Israeli Fantasies and Techniques of Population Expulsion^[58]
• 2019 Wadie Said, Susan M. Akram, Hassan Jabareen & Philippe Sands: Is Justice Still Possible? Palestine, International Law, and Public Discourse^[59]
• 2022 Abdulrazak Gurnah^[59]
• 2023 Francesca Albanese: Israel's Settler Colonialism: Law, Humanity, Empire^[60]
• 2024 Raji Sourani: Is the Gaza War the End of International Humanitarian Law?^[61]

Barenboim-Said Akademie

In 2018, Mena Mark Hanna, dean of the Barenboim-Said Akademie, launched the Edward W. Said Days,^[62] a three-day interdisciplinary festival reflecting upon the legacy of Said's thought. Each festival is thematic and features three keynote speakers, an artistic exhibition, films, and guest musical artists.

• 2018 "On Late Style": Teju Cole, Linda Hutcheon, Raja Shehadeh, and the Michelangelo String Quartet.^[63]
• 2019 "On Counterpoint": Michael Wood, Adania Shibli, Sa'ed Atshan, The Tallis Scholars, and Akinbode Akinbiyi.^[64]
• 2020 "Culture and Power" (postponed to 2021): Alex Ross, Elizabeth Wilson, Laleh Khalili, Elaine Mitchener, Gilbert Nouno, Michael Wendeberg, Jean Kalman, and Abdo Shanan.^[65]