Day I - Saturday 17.11

9:00 - Registration

9:30 – 9:45 Opening Statement

Nur Masalha, Reader in Religion and Politics and Director of the Centre for Religion and History and of the Holy Land Research Project at Saint Mary’s College, University of Surrey (UK)

9:45 – 11:45 Session One: Why One State?

Panel Chair: Ghada Karmi, Honorary Researcher Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter (UK)

• The historical roots of the One State idea, title
  .Ilan Pappe, Professor of History, University of Exeter (UK)
  
  
• A Matter of Immediate Urgency, not a Distant Utopia
  Joseph Mas'ad, Associate Professor of Modern Arab Politics and Intellectual History, Columbia University (US)
  
  
• The State of the One-State Idea
  Ali Abunimah, Political activist, co-founder of the leading on-line resource on
  Palestine-Israel, “Electronic Intifada” (US)

12:00 – 13:30 Session Two: Mapping the Geopolitical Landscape: Past, Present and Future

Panel Chair: Haim Bresheeth, Chair of Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London, filmmaker and film studies scholar (UK)

• Leaving the Cake Whole
  Ghazi Falah, Professor of Geography and Planning, University of Akron-Ohio (US)
  
  
• Regional politics: The One State and the Arab world
  As'ad Ghanem, Researcher at the School of Sciences, University of Haifa (IL).
  
  
• Obstacles faced and looming
  Ghada Karmi, University of Exeter
  
  
• With an eye to the future
  Leila Farsakh, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Boston (US)
  

13:30 – 14:30 Lunch break

14:30 - 16:00 Session Three: Land, Citizenship, and Identity: Rethinking the Nation-State (part I - presentations)
This panel provides a platform for internal debate within the One State camp regarding the desired institutional and constitutional formation of the state, which is commonly dichotomized into the bi-national model on one side and the multicultural democracy on the other.

Panel Chair: Leila Farsakh, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts-Boston (US)

• Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Senior lecturer of Jewish History, Ben-Gurion University (IL)
  
  
• Nadim Rouhana, Associate professor at the Graduate Program on   Conflict Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Boston (US)
  
  
• Omar Barghouti, independent Palestinian researcher and Human Rights activist, founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI)
  
  
• Tikva Honig-Parnass, Political activist, co-editor of Between the Lines (IL)

16:15 – 18:00 Session Three: Land, Citizenship, and Identity: Rethinking the Nation-State (part II - debate)
This part of the session will host a debate between the speakers of part I and allow a generous amount of time for Q&A from the audience.

Day II - Sunday 18.11

10:30 – 12:30 Session Four: Looking at the past, Rethinking the Future

Panel Chair: Ali Abunimah (US)

• Drawing Lessons from the Case of South Africa
  Louise Bethlehem, Louise Bethlehem, Comparative Literature, The
  Hebrew University of Jerusalem (IL)
  
  
• Northern Ireland: Power Sharing in a Divided Society
  Kathleen O’Connell, Belfast branch secretary and spokesperson of the 
  Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC)
  
  
• Lebanon: the “re-unification”
  Gilbert Achcar, Professor of Development Studies and International 
  Relations, SOAS, University of London (UK)
  
  
• India – Pakistan: the Partition
  Sumantra Bose, Professor of International and Comparative Politics at
  the London School of Economics (UK)

12:30-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-16:00    Session Five : One state from Within Civil Society Social Movements, and Grassroots Activism
The lived experience and stories of the invited activists will portray the current public mood in regard to the One-State option, and point at both the difficulties and the opportunities for promoting this line of thought among the various social movements and civil society organizations that are operating within the different communities. This mosaic of personal accounts and observations will provide the foundation for the following discussion about 'the way forward'.

Panel Chair: Omar Barghouti

• Haidar Eid, Assistant professor of English at Al-Quds Open University, Gaza Co-founder of One-State Group in Gaza
  
  
• Eitan Bronstein, Peace activist, founder and director of Zochrot (“Remebering”)
  
  
• Eyal Sivan, Filmmaker, producer and essayist
  
  
• Yousef Faker el Deen, Political activist, Founder of Al-Jaras Al-Awda (“Bells of Return”) Syria
  
  
• Rajaa Omari, Political Activist, Founder of Natrinkom (“We are waiting for you”), Haifa

16:00-16:15   Tea Break

16:15-18:00   Session Six : The Way Forward

A roundtable with several participants of the conference will discuss the necessary immediate actions required for promoting the discussion about alternatives to the two-state paradigm, and to develop and advance the ideas surrounding the One-State vision into a meaningful political agenda.