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Events - Artefacts of Resistance

Artefacts of Resistance

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 1700–1930 BST, 7 May 2024, London
KCL, Bush House South East Wing 1.02, WC2R 2LS
CLOSING EVENT: Geographies of Counter Archiving
This event closes the Imagining Futures-funded project Archiving Resistance, which curated artefacts from two contemporary protests in India: the 2019 movement against the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens (across India), and the Farmers Protests by the Singhu border, Delhi against the Indian Agriculture Acts of 2020. It builds on oral historical accounts of the protesters and creates an autonomous archive of various artefacts (posters, banners, badges, poetry and performances). In the closing event, we showcase our project outputs alongside a conversation with three invited colleagues engaged with counter-archiving projects from across South Asia and beyond:
• Mahvish Ahmad (Assistant Professor of Human Rights and Politics, Dept. of Sociology, London School of Economics) studies state violence and the intellectual and political labour of movements targeted in repression, investigating non-canonical movement thought to expand what constitutes social theory. She is a co-founder of Revolutionary Papers and a UK-based Trustee of the South Asian Research and Resource Centre (SARRC), an Islamabad-based archive of Pakistan’s socialist and democratic movements.
• Hana Morgenstern (Associate Professor in Postcolonial and Middle East Literature, University of  Cambridge) is a co-founder, PI and co-director of Revolutionary Papers. Dr Morgenstern is a writer, translator and scholar of Middle Eastern literatures and cultural histories of the Left, with a specialization in Palestine and Israel, including Jewish, Hebrew and Arabic literatures and literary cultures. Her current research examines how colonialism and decolonization have shaped literary forms and cultural practices. Her upcoming book Cultural Co-Resistance in Palestine/Israel: Anticolonial Literature, Translation and Magazines (EUP 2024), reconstructs a history of anticolonial Palestinian and Jewish literary collaborations, from the heyday of decolonization in the 1950s to the present day.
• Senel Wanniarachchi (PhD Researcher, LSE Department of Gender Studies) is cofounder of the Sri Lankan human rights & social media activist organisation Hashtag Generation. His research is interested in understanding how discourses on ‘culture’ and ‘heritage’ are instrumentalised in frameworks that are anti-imperialist, but also nationalist, patriarchal, heteronormative and anti-human rights in the postcolony. His research has appeared in the journal  Cultural Politics and is set to appear in the forthcoming Handbook on Contemporary Sri Lanka.

 

8 Sep 2023, London
The Mills Fabrica, 36-40 York Way, N1 9AB
EXHIBITION OPENING: Fashion x AI
The exhibition will showcase Manu Luksch’s film of her  ‘active dress’, featuring anonymised and unredacted images from one of the protest sites.   

 

30 Aug–2 Sep 2023, London
Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference 2023
Session The Place of the Archive. A Geographical Enquiry into Archiving as Knowledge Politics: State Violence and Counter Archiving led by Raktim Ray and Srilata Sircar. Includes the contribution Reinscribing the archive through artistic research and activism by Manu Luksch and Mukul Patel.

 

21–23 Feb 2023, Ankara, Türkiye
British Institute, Ankara
WORKSHOP: Strategic Uses of Archives in the Contexts of Displacement and Post-Conflict
At this second international gathering organised by Imagining Futures, Raktim Ray will deliver a presentation titled ‘Artefacts of Resistance: Creating Archives of Transnational Protest Movements’.

 

24–26 Jan 2023, Accra, Ghana
Tomreik Hotel Conference Centre, Lagos Avenue, Shiashie, East Legon
CONFERENCE: Words Into Action – Manifesto for Imagining Futures
Gathering I: Roles of Institutions in Egalitarian Archival Practice and Methods of Creating Digital Repositories
Srilata Sircar and Mukul Patel will present the Artefacts of Resistance project as a case study on 24 Jan.

 

20 Jan 2023, London
1600 GMT, Senate House Room 403, Malet Street, WC1E 7HU
LAUNCH EVENT with presentations by the team and guests:
• Welcome note and summary – Dr Raktim Ray (Development Planning Unit, UCL) & Dr Srilata Sircar (India Institute, King’s College London)
• Architecture of Archiving – Mukul Patel (Royal College of Art, emergence.is)
• Muslim Women on Street: Redefining Gender and Islam – Dr Ufaque Paiker (Ashoka Universitv):
• International Development, Racialised Diasporas and Radical Solidarities – Dr Kalpana Wilson (Department of Geography, Birkbeck)
• Trade Unions and Spaces of Democratisation in Britain, the Caribbean and Greece – Dr. David Featherstone (School of Geographical & Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow)
• Performing Visibility and Anonymity – Manu Luksch (Royal College of Art)
Talks and discussion will be followed by a drinks reception at 1800.
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