Archives of the Disappeared: Discipline and Method Amidst Ruin
Funded by a Cambridge Humanities Research Grant, the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies and Senior Members Research Support, Newnham College.
This workshop was also supported by the Smuts Memorial Fund, managed by the University of Cambridge, in memory of Jan Christian Smuts. The Archives of the Disappeared research network was supported by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge.
Thursday, 21 March 2024
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 9:30am – 10am | Welcome/Coffee/Registration Old Labs Foyer |
| 10am – 10:30am | Introductory Remarks and Framings Mezna Qato |
| 10:30am – 12pm | Biographies of the Disappeared
Genocidal Disruption of Johannes Jakob Manissadjian’s Lifework Narrating (Dis)Appearance: Baloch Nationalist Women Chaired by Mezna Qato |
| 12:15pm – 1:45pm | Lunch College Hall, Newnham |
| 1:45pm – 4pm | Literatures and Languages of Annihilation
Geography, Literature and Activism Against Imperial Borderlands Rupture and Reconstruction: Palestinian Culture Paradoxes of Salvage Linguistics: “Judeo-Arabic” Chaired by Yael Navaro |
| 4pm – 4:30pm | Coffee/Tea Old Labs Foyer |
| 4:30pm – 6:00pm | Erasure and Retrieval
Which Voice and Which Image Are Still Possible in The Continuous Disaster? Urgent Archive Chaired by Hana Morgenstern |
| 7:30pm | Workshop Dinner The Rice Boat, 37 Newnham Rd, CB3 9EY |
Friday, 22 March 2024
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 9:30am – 10am | Coffee/Tea Old Labs Foyer |
| 10am – 10:30am | Framings and Conversation Mahvish Ahmad |
| 10:30am – 12:45pm | Ecologies and Cosmologies of Annihilation
Deserts and the Dis-Archive of Environmental Saharanism Catastrophe and More-than-Human Worlds Ecstatic Ecopedagogies Chaired by Mahvish Ahmad |
| 12:45pm – 2:15pm | Lunch College Hall, Newnham |
| 2:15pm – 2:30pm | Coffee/Tea Old Labs Foyer |
| 2:30pm – 5:30pm | Art, Loss and Remembrance
What Do The Birds Say? What the Ground Remembers: Retracing Absence Within Space and Memory The Orpheus Double Bind*: Thoughts and Knots about Violence of Representation, Unfortunate Complicity, and Self-serving Compassion Chaired by Sadia Shirazi |
| 7:30pm | Workshop Dinner Granta, 14 Newnham Rd, Cambridge CB3 9EX |
Saturday, 23 March 2024
| Time | Session |
|---|---|
| 9:30am – 10am | Coffee/Tea Old Labs Foyer |
| 10am – 10:30am | Framings and Conversation Chana Morgenstern |
| 10:30am – 12:45pm | Social Histories of the Disappeared
Iraq in the Archives from Below: Across, Against, and Beyond Dismemberment, Erasure, and Plunder Alienating Archives: Imaging Logistical Labor Before the Nakba The Archivists of Gaza Chaired by Mahvish Ahmad |
| 12:45pm – 1:45pm | Lunch Old Labs Foyer, Newnham |
| 1:45pm – 3:30pm | Threadings Yael Navaro |
| 3:30pm – 4pm | Coffee/Tea Old Labs Foyer |
| 4pm – 5pm | Conversation and Next Steps |
| 5pm | Workshop concludes |
Funded by the Cambridge Humanities Research Grant (CHRG), the Margaret Anstee Centre for Global Studies and Senior Members Research Support (SMRS), Newnham College. This workshop was also supported by the Smuts Memorial Fund (SMUTS), managed by the University of Cambridge, in memory of Jan Christiaan Smuts. The research network that led to this workshop was supported by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge.