On 11 December 2017, the Institute of Women's Studies at Birzeit University organized a seminar "Women and Liberation Struggles: Palestine and the Global South - Rethinking Revolutionary Histories and Futures” as part of a research project organized by the A. M. Qattan Foundation in partnership with the Institute of Women’s Studies, Gallery One, and the Ramallah Cinema Club. Vice President for Community Affairs at Birzeit University Dr. Asem Khalil opened the seminar by welcoming the audience and emphasizing the importance of the seminar, "as it seeks to rethink past and present relationships between feminist histories, women’s movements, women’s representations, and the anti-colonial liberation movement in Palestine and across different geographies and struggles.” Ziad Khalaf, Director General of the A.M. Qattan Foundation, spoke about the Women and Revolution Project that involves series of interventions leading to a central event on women and revolution.

Director of the Institute of Women's Studies Dr. Lena Meari noted that the purpose of the seminar is "to reflect on the histories of the revolutions and the complex relationship of women within the liberation struggle movements not as a past that has been overtaken and archived in a museum. The purpose is rather to recall flashes and lessons of the past in order to build the future of the liberation struggle movement that would be different from the current reality experienced by the forces of liberation on the Palestinian, Arab and world levels."