O'Neil Presentation at Al-Quds

O'Neil Presents at Al Quds

Dr. Maryvelma O’Neil participated in a conference on “The Production of Inequalities: Realities and Prospects for Change in Jerusalem” (December 3-5, 2016) sponsored by the Center for Jerusalem Studies, Al-Quds University in Palestine. Her paper, entitled “’Defiant Memory’”: Protecting and Celebrating Palestinian Cultural Heritage in Jerusalem,” described the first stage of a cultural mapping project for which she received a research grant from Webster University, Geneva. She presented an annotated inventory of the most significant civil society organizations and cultural institutions who work to reduce inequalities in the economic, political and cultural domains in occupied East Jerusalem.