This first edition of The Broken Pitcher Forum focuses on property, ownership, and the seizure of the commons in occupied lands, looking at the histories of Cyprus and Palestine in particular. Together with their interlocutors geographer Noura Alkhalili and artist Toula Liasi, the hosts Marina Christodoulidou and Natascha Sadr Haghighian discuss the reverberating histories of both contexts to trace how colonial property regimes have shaped life, housing, and infrastructure. Moving from Ottoman to British rule and into contemporary conditions of occupation, the Forum traces evictability, foreclosure, debt, and land alienation as ongoing extractive logics, situating these within broader struggles against settler colonialism and the capitalist destruction of social, cultural, and ecological life.

Noura Alkhalili briefly discusses settler colonialism and how it operates. She then situates Palestine through the settler colonial lens, mainly by discussing the enclosures of the mushaa' (common lands in the Levant) during the British colonisation of Palestine, starting with the Balfour Declaration of 1917, to demonstrate how British imperialism enabled the Zionist settler colonial project in Palestine.

Toula Liasi shares experiences from her family home in the enclaved community of Agia Triada in Karpasia, a heritage under occupation since 1974. She speaks about her presence and persistence in the enclave and the creation of a collective consciousness of its history.

11:00: Opening

13:00: Lunch

14:00: Walk-through with Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Marina Christodoulidou

15:00: Discussions with Noura Alkhalili, Toula Liasi

17:00: Drinks

The Broken Pitcher will be screened in the exhibition space at 11:15, 12:30 and 17:15.