From Hawaiʻi to Palestine: Sean Connelly, Nadine Fattaleh, and Nour Joudah

Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.

This program brings together artist Sean Connelly (2025 Artist-in-Residence, A/P/A Institute at NYU), curator and writer Nadine Fattaleh (Fall 2024 Student Artist-in-Residence, A/P/A Institute at NYU), and Professor Nour Joudah (UCLA) to draw connections between Hawaiʻi and Palestine, with a focus on food sovereignty, land, and mapping Indigenous resistance.

Connelly shares his artistic and mapping projects on Native Hawaiian ahupuaʻa (geologic subdivision) systems and aloha ʻāina (love of the land) projects.

Fattaleh will speak about the work of Palestinian cooperative farms in the occupied West Bank, highlighting grassroots efforts to resist the political and ecological violence of the Israeli occupation.

Professor Joudah will present her research on both Native Hawaiian and Palestinian struggles for liberation, highlighting how Indigenous countermapping is both a cartographic and decolonial praxis.

In addition to thinking through points of connection between Indigenous resistance in both Hawaiʻi and Palestine, this event serves as a bridge between Fattaleh and Connelly’s residencies at the A/P/A Institute at NYU. Professor Andrew Ross moderates this special evening.

This discussion is part of our year-long programming theme, “Asian/Pacific/American Prospects,” with which we ask how A/P/A perspectives might provide compelling modes for confronting the many, proliferating crises of concern to our communities and imagining futures beyond them.

NYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event, open to the public. Registration is required.

Accessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall, all gender restrooms, and a lactation room available. If you have any access needs, please email [email protected]

Photograph by Jen May Pastores.

Host or Publisher A/P/A Institute at NYU