WORKSHOP: “Archiving as Dissensus”
Ann Laura Stoler, the Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, The New School for Social Research
There will also be a workshop with Ann Stoler on Friday, November 3 from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. A paper for discussion will be circulated before the workshop. If you are interested in attending, please rsvp to ecocriticalsawyer@wustl.edu
Workshop title: “Archiving as Dissensus”
This paper is an exercise in imagining how a collective might go about shaping the imaginative geography of a Palestinian archive. At issue is an archival assembly that is not constrained by the command-- in form and content --dictated by colonial state priorities nor even by Palestinian authorities. What concerns should be weighed and who shall be its archons? How might a principle and practice of dissensus speak to and through a vastly deterritorialized populace? Might this diasporic reality provide the very strength of this archive, its exemplary status, and political grace?
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