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, University of Warwick, Princeton University, University of Adelaide, The American University in Cairo, Simon Fraser University, 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
2006 Frank Kermode: Living On the Hyphen: Yeats, Anglo-Irish Poet
2007 David Bromwich: Moral Imagination
2008 Adonis: A Reading and a Recital
2009 Noam Chomsky: The Unipolar Moment and the Culture of Imperialism
2011 Ahdaf Soueif: Notes from the Egyptian Revolution
2012 W. J. T. Mitchell: Seeing Madness: Insanity, Media, and Visual Culture
2013 Raja Shehadeh: Is There a Language of Peace? Palestine Today and the Categorization of Domination
2014 Richard Falk: The Palestinian Future After Gaza
2015 Declan Kiberd: The Future of the Past: Revival Ireland 1891-1922
2017 Catherine Hall: Imaginative Geographies of the Black/White Atlantic

University of Warwick

2004 Tim Brennan: The Politics of Belief
2005 Tariq Ali: Palestine & The Western Liberal Conscience
2006 Ahdaf Soueif: The Heart of the Matter: Palestine in the World Today
2007 Gilbert Achcar: Orientalism in Reverse: Post 1979 Trends in French Orientalism
2008 Declan Kiberd: Edward Said and the Everyday
2010 Eyal Weizman: Spatial Politics in Israel and Palestine
2011 Mourid Barghouti
2012 Benita Parry: What’s Left in Postcolonial Studies?
2013 Samir Amin: The Implosion of the Contemporary System: A Challenge for the Societies of the South
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
2005 Judith Butler: Forgotten Histories of Post-Zionism: Universalism, Judaism, and the Messianic
2006 Azmi Bishara: War, Occupation and Democracy: US Strategy in the Middle East
2007 Tanya Reinhart: The Spirit of Struggle
2008 Karen AbuZayd: Palestine Refugees: Exile, Isolation and Prospects
2009 Amira Hass: One Occupation, Two Governments:The Onslaught On Gaza And The Palestinian Internal Rift
2010 Noam Chomsky: "I Am Kinda": Reflections on the Culture of Imperialism
2012 Mahmood Mamdani: “Settler Colonialism: Then and Now”
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”
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"
2023 Mohammed El-Kurd: "Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal"

University of Adelaide

2005 Robert Fisk
2006 Tanya Reinhart: In memory of Edward Said
2007 Ghada Karmi: Israel’S Dilemma in Palestine: Origins and Solutions
2008 Sara Roy: The Impossible Union of Arab and Jew: Reflections on Dissent, Remembrance and Redemption
2009 Saree Makdisi: From Occupation to Reconciliation
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
2006 Barbara Harlow: Resistance literature revisited: From Basra to Guantànamo
2007 Cornel West: The Vocation of a Democratic Individual
2008 Terry Eagleton: Terror and Tragedy
2009 : Contrapuntal Intellectual: Edward Said and Music
2010 Judith Butler: "What Shall We Do Without Exile?" Edward Said and Mahmoud Darwish Addressing the Future
2011 John Carlos Rowe : "American Orientalism After Edward Said"
2012 Michael Wood: Literature, Cinema and the Taste of Knowledge
2013 Saree Makdisi: Occidentalism: Making England Western
2014 Marina Warner: Ways of Dwelling: Edward Said and the Travelling Text
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
2018 Robert Young: Said’s Late Style -- A Palestinian Aesthetic
2019 Wadie Edward Said: Edward Said: Teachings, Familial and Otherwise
2022 Raja Shehadeh: The Peregrinations of Memory: The Case of Palestine
2022 Noam Chomsky: Global Realignments and the Prospects for a Livable World

Simon Fraser University

2025 Cornel West: Where Do We Go From Here? On the Future of Justice and Solidarity

The Jerusalem Fund

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

London Review of Books

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

Barenboim-Said Akademie

In 2018, Mena Mark Hanna, dean of the Barenboim-Said Akademie, launched the Edward W. Said Days, 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.
2019 "On Counterpoint": Michael Wood, Adania Shibli, Sa'ed Atshan, The Tallis Scholars, and Akinbode Akinbiyi.
2020 "Culture and Power" : Alex Ross, Elizabeth Wilson, Laleh Khalili, Elaine Mitchener, Gilbert Nouno, Michael Wendeberg, Jean Kalman, and Abdo Shanan.