Today's Granoff Music Center Colloquium at Tufts University features Dr. David A. McDonald of Indiana University speaking on "Listening to the Nakba: Palestine and the Crisis of Response." For Palestinians the "nakba," or catastrophe, is a profound concept that describes the events of 1948, when the majority of the world's Palestinians were forced into exile, as well as ongoing experiences of settler-colonial dispossession and erasure. As both historical event and contemporary discourse, the nakba not only connects Palestinians across time…