We invite you to our third event Pour une histoire de l’art engagée: Decolonization is Not a Metaphor, which is a screening and discussion about the archival and filmic projects of anthropologist Diana Allan (in English).
Wednesday, December 6, 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.
Projection & discussion
The Nakba Archive and Still Life
Diana Allan (researcher, archivist and documentary filmmaker, McGill), in discussion with Myriam Amri (Phd student in anthropology, filmmaker and visual artist, Harvard)
UQAM, pavillon Judith-Jasmin (J), J-1187
Diana Allan is an associate professor of anthropology and filmmaker at McGill University and co-director of the Critical Media Lab. She is the co-founder of the Nakba Archive, a testimonial project that has documented histories of the 1948 expulsion with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, and the author of Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (2014) and Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine (2021). Her films include Still Life (2007), Terrace of the Sea (2010), and So Dear, So Lovely (2018). She holds a Canada Research Chair in the anthropology of living archives.
Myriam Amri is an anthropologist, filmmaker and visual artist. She is completing her PhD in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University where her research traces materiality, coloniality and capitalism in contemporary North Africa. As a filmmaker and visual artist, her creative practice explores intimacy, crises and dystopias using moving-image, film photography, installations, and sound. Her creative works have been part of the Protocinema exhibition in New York, Savvy Contemporary in Berlin, the Jaou Biennale in Tunis and the NYU Gallatin Galleries. She’s the co-founder of the experimental Arab literary collective « Asameena » and is the recipient of a 2024 visual art fellowship from the Swiss Arts Council.
Pour une histoire de l’art engagée is a series of interdisciplinary events which aim to situate historical art practices in light of current social and political issues. The 2023/2024 program will be devoted to the theme Decolonization is Not a Metaphor, which stems from the ongoing emergencies in Gaza and Palestine. The series seeks to question the ways in which current historical art research employs decolonial theories.
If you have any questions, please contact : hist.engagee@gmail.com
This project is supported by the UQAM art history department and the Doc-Inter, inter-university doctoral program (UQAM, UdeM, Concordia).
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