The Institute for Contemporary Critical Thought is pleased t o invite you to join us for the fourth session in our serial experiment with and around our theme of Herd.
From March 2026, we have continued to gather collectively to think with the figure of the Herd. Led by an eclectic range of thinkers, and provoked by selected readings, each session in this series experiments with the concept’s many permutations, to rethink Herd as /Species, as /The Masses, as /Atmospherics and on 4 September we have HERD/Colonial Frontiers.
We are immensely fortunate to have Palestinian geographers Danna Masad and Wassim Ghantous discuss their work on PalestinianShepherding and the violence of Israeli Colonial Herding in the occupied WestBank.
Please join us for what we anticipate will be a provocative session as we reflect on the violence of a colonial practice that seeks not only to infiltrate but to annihilate all aspects of Palestinian life. How does colonial herding recast our understanding of the colonial frontier itself — not as a fixed line, but as something mobile, unfolding through appropriation, instrumentalisation, and weaponisation? What might this suggest about the relevance of a distinction between shepherding and herding? If shepherding is not simply a counter-response to this frontier but long precedes it, what does this truth — undiminished by the very violence that seeks to erase it — tell of the struggle to endure?
The Herd series is shepherded by Kari Lancaster, Marsha Rosengarten, and Nele Jensen.
Pre-readings to stimulate reflection for the session will be sent before the session.
The event is FREE, but we will be grateful for your support through a regular or one off donation. Hence the pay-what-you-can system of ticketing: Any amount you can donate will help us continue creating a space where critical thought and collective inquiry are open and accessible. If you're unable to make a donation at this time, please feel free to write "0" on the amount.
