02/07/2023
By Alicia Weaver

Rev. Dana McLean Greeley Fellowship for Peace Studies at UMass Lowell 2022-2023 Speaker Series: Indigenous Peoples’ Struggles, Resistance and Survival continues with Professor Devin G. Atallah on Tuesday, March 14 at 11 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. in the First Floor Conference Room at WISH (Wilder Interdisciplinary Studies Hub) at 150 Wilder St., South Campus. His talk is entitled "Trees of Decolonial Healing: Reflections on the Co-Creation of a Workbook for Palestinian Community Health Workers."

The Greeley Speaker series focuses on settler colonial and structural violence against Indigenous peoples as well as resistance mobilized by Indigenous communities against powerful entities locally and transnationally. In this talk, Atallah will share his collective’s efforts to address intergenerational, racialized trauma and promote decolonial healing practices in refugee camps in occupied Palestine on the frontlines of settler colonial onslaught.

Devin G. Atallah is an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Atallah is a diaspora Palestinian with cherished roots within the Indigenous villages in the mountains of Bethlehem, colonized Palestine. He is a founder and a leader of the Decolonial Antiracism Research & Action (DARA) Collective for Healing & Liberación. As an activist, scholar, researcher, practitioner, educator, learner, and healer, Atallah strives to support and to contribute to understandings of intergenerational resistance, healing justice and decolonization/decoloniality.

If you would like to join remotely, please register for the Zoom link.