With guest speaker Mohanad Yaqubi, we will explore films from the Palestinian Film Institute (1967–1984), that use different grammars of resistance, creating resonant narratives around Palestine’s colonial history that remain relevant today. It will tackle different forms of memory work to counter the colonial erasure, such as transnational archival research, activist archivism, and creative artistic practices.

Discussion questions: in what ways can we find alternative archival practices that counter persistent colonial erasure? Can we imagine a decolonial, future-oriented, archival practice?

This session is the third of the series Decolonial Futures of Audiovisual Archives and Archiving.

Reading club on 8 November

Reading group: 8 November 2024, 15:00-18:00 at UvA Buzzhouse (OMHP). Please send an email to the organizers (j.fiorinohabib@uva.nl & a.ozgen-havekotte@uva.nl) to receive information and updates about the reading group meetings.