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Dr Patrick Doyle (PPA) is taking part in a public seminar as part of the EVA International Festival in which his publication is being used to explore the history of the commons, land politics and property ownership. St. John's Pavilion Mahon, Newtown V94 V2PD Limerick In a phase of hypercapitalisation, what we experience as insane real estate fantasies and the total imbrication of states, multinationals and developers in global privatisation of the planet, the commons and their dismantlement re-surface as a space and a tool for resistance. Practices of commons as well as legal commons become a tool and a strategy to resist this destructive take over of our planet. From Palestine and more broadly the Levant to Colombia, Chiapas, etc., we witness an insistence by militants, organiser, farmers, historians, artists and more to remind us that a relationship of non-property or non-ownership is still possible. From the Mashaa’, a levantine form of collective land tenure and legal common, to the history of land commodification in Ireland we will try to bring two texts together to discuss these two contexts as enclosures testing ground and the last settler colonial project. Convened by Marwa Arsanios. With contributions by Patrick Doyle, Sinéad Mercier, William Bock, and others. Joining and contributing to the public seminar is open to all. Preparation for the seminar includes reading the following two texts: Patrick Doyle, ‘The Irish Land Question, the International Monetary Problem, and Archbishop William Walsh, 1881-1896’, Historical Journal (2022) Peter Linebaugh, ‘Palestine & the Commons: Or, Marx & the Musha’a’ Register to attend