Human Rights Project Presents

"Innocent Knowledge: Israeli and Palestinian Children's Drawings" 

This talk introduces Innocent Knowledge, a collaborative research and public humanities project centered on nearly four hundred drawings created by children ages five to fourteen across Gaza, the West Bank, and Israel between October 2024 and June 2025. Encountered together, the drawings render visible the radically unequal conditions under which childhood unfolds across the region. The lecture reflects on the project’s conceptual and ethical foundations: the decision to juxtapose Israeli and Palestinian children’s work without imposing narrative symmetry; the refusal to interpret individual images; the use of context rather than analysis to mediate meaning; and the implications of Article 12 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child for visual expression in wartime. Taken together, the drawings invite us to consider what it means to treat children not as symbols of conflict, but as agents of testimony and presence.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Reem-Kayden Center Laszlo Z. Bito '60 Auditorium

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