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
University of Adelaide
- 2005 Robert Fisk[21]
- 2006 Tanya Reinhart: In memory of Edward Said[22]
- 2007 Ghada Karmi: Israel’S Dilemma in Palestine: Origins and Solutions[23]
- 2008 Sara Roy: The Impossible Union of Arab and Jew: Reflections on Dissent, Remembrance and Redemption [24]
- 2009 Saree Makdisi: From Occupation to Reconciliation[25]
- 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[26]
- 2006 Barbara Harlow: Resistance literature revisited: From Basra to Guantànamo[27]
- 2007 Cornel West: The Vocation of a Democratic Individual[28]
- 2008 Terry Eagleton: Terror and Tragedy[29]
- 2009 Rokus de Groot : Contrapuntal Intellectual: Edward Said and Music[28]
- 2010 Judith Butler: "What Shall We Do Without Exile?" Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish Addressing the Future[30]
- 2011 John Carlos Rowe : "American Orientalism After Edward Said"[31]
- 2012 Michael Wood: Literature, Cinema and the Taste of Knowledge
- 2013 Saree Makdisi: Occidentalism: Making England Western[32]
- 2014 Marina Warner: Ways of Dwelling: Edward Said and the Travelling Text[33]
- 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[34]
- 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?[35]
- 2009 Richard Falk: Imagining Israel-Palestine Peace: Why International Law Matters[36]
- 2010 Rashid Khalidi The Palestine Question and the U.S. Public Sphere [37]
- 2012 Sara Roy: A Deliberate Cruelty: Rendering Gaza Unviable[38]
- 2013 Najla Said: Looking for Palestine[39]
- 2014 Judith Butler[40]
- 2015 Cornel West: The Legacy of Edward Said[41]
- 2016 Wadie Said: The Terrorism Label: an Examination of American Criminal Prosecutions[42]
- 2017 David Palumbo-Liu: Literature, Empathy, and Rights[43]
- 2020 Daphne Muse "The Intersections of Our Resistance and the Legacies We Leave Future Generations"[44]
London Review of Books
- 2010 Marina Warner: Oriental Masquerade: Fiction and Fantasy in the Wake of the Arabian Nights[45]
- 2011 Rashid Khalidi: Human dignity in Jerusalem[46]
- 2012 Ahdaf Soueif: Mina's Banner: Edward Said and the Egyptian Revolution[47]
- 2013 Noam Chomsky: Violence & Dignity: Reflections on the Middle East[48]
- 2014 Raja Shehadeh: Is There a Language of Peace?[49]
- 2015 Daniel Barenboim: The Role of Music in Life[50]
- 2016 Naomi Klein: Let them Drown - The Violence of Othering in a Warming World[51]
- 2017 Mahmood Mamdani: Justice Not Revenge – Examining the Concept of Revolutionary Justice[52]
- 2018 Amira Hass: The Preventable: Israeli Fantasies and Techniques of Population Expulsion[53]
- 2019 Wadie Said, Susan M. Akram, Hassan Jabareen & Philippe Sands: Is Justice Still Possible? Palestine, International Law, and Public Discourse[54]
- 2022 Abdulrazak Gurnah[54]
- 2023 Francesca Albanese: Israel's Settler Colonialism: Law, Humanity, Empire[55]
Barenboim-Said Akademie
In 2018, Mena Mark Hanna, dean of the Barenboim-Said Akademie, launched the Edward W. Said Days,[56] 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.[57]
- 2019 "On Counterpoint": Michael Wood, Adania Shibli, Sa'ed Atshan, The Tallis Scholars, and Akinbode Akinbiyi.[58]
- 2020 "Culture and Power" (postponed to 2021): Alex Ross, Elizabeth Wilson, Laleh Khalili, Elaine Mitchener, Gilbert Nouno, Michael Wendeberg, Jean Kalman, and Abdo Shanan.[59]
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