Thursday, April 13, 2023 - 12:40 p.m. to 2 p.m.
Memorial Union Building Theater II
Join us on Thursday, April 13th from 12:40-2pm in MUB Theater II for our final NHIS lecture for the spring 2023 semester entitled "Unsettling the Archive: Palestinian Media Ecologies in Exile." Dr. Diana Keown Allan considers how Palestinian history and experience might be reclaimed from colonial films from British Mandate Palestine, and how sensory and synesthetic attention developed in experimental filmmaking might bear on archival footage. Analysis will center on 'Partition', a film work in progress that makes extensive use of found footage from Britain’s imperial collections, and sound recordings produced by the Nakba Archive with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and across the sites of their displacement. The talk will explore the disruptive potential of refugee voice to reveal the continuity of Palestinian presence in colonial archives and to deconstruct and reconstruct archival authority and colonial history.
Diana Keown Allan is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. Her ethnographic films and publications have centered on the Palestinian refugee community in Lebanon. She is the co-founder of the Nakba Archive, a grassroots initiative that has recorded oral histories with Palestinian refugees in Lebanon and co-directs the Critical Media Lab at McGill. She is a Canada Research Chair in the anthropology of living Archives.
The New Hampshire International Seminar (NHIS) is a series of talks organized by the International Affairs Program at UNH to cultivate community-wide dialogue on critical global issues. To achieve this, the program brings leading scholars and practitioners to campus to speak not just to our students but also to the broader community. The NHIS series is meant to engage an undergraduate audience and give some sense of why the presentation is important/useful to understanding some aspects of international affairs. UNH faculty, staff, students, and community members attend. Special thanks to the Office of the COLA Dean for their continued support!
