THE STORIES WE TELL
- 2024 -
The stories we tell matter. It matters how we craft them and what they say and don’t say about others and ourselves. In this hour of genocide, as we bear witness to unspeakable horror and the stifling censorship of educational, cultural and political institutions, we foreground Palestinian worlds to nourish learning and cultivate hope. Bringing together a set of exceptional scholars, artists and activists, this program invites us to confront what we cannot longer unsee and to listen to what has been muzzled. Through conversations, poetry, music, and films we aim to unsettle all-too-predictable story lines by repositioning words and silences as historical agents of complex and ongoing transformations.
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April 25 “Decolonising the Civilian”
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April 30 “Radical Education the Day After”
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May 22 “Towers of Ivory and Steel”
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May 23 “Kitchen Talks”
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May 29 “Carceral Experiences in Palestine”
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May 30 “Poetry in the Hour of Genocide”
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June 7 “Recipes of Solidarity”
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June 27 (tbc) “Gender, Politics and Critique”
- 2023 -
- February 1 "Crude Knowledge: Decolonisation, Nationalisation, and Hydrocarbon Epistemologies" & "On the Remarkable Role of Economic Science in Calculating Iran’s Democratic Future through the Reassembly of a Dam in the mid-20th century"
- March 1 "Blowing Sand: Oil Camps, Security and Labour in the Gulf” & “The Intimacy of Oil: Aramco, Arabia and Empire"
- April 19 "Oilmen, Petroleum Arabism and OPEC New Political and Public Cultures of Oil in the Arab world, 1959–1964" & “Black Gold Seekers: French oil companies in colonial and postcolonial Algeria. Workforce policies, circulation of knowledge and social identities (1945-1973)"
- May 3 "Fluid History: Oil Workers and the Iranian Revolution" & "The Brotherhood of Labor: Oil Capital, Masculinity, and the Making of the Lebanese Working Class"
- June 7 "Renewable Energy in Tunisia: dependency, privatization and local struggles" & "New Masks, Old Colonialism: Wind Energy Projects in the Occupied Western Sahara and the Syrian Golan Heights"
- 2021-2022 -
- November 3 "Failed But Not Forgotten: Oil Media in Iraq Before 1958" & "Archival Regimes of Extraction: Contested Petromodernity in Iran and its Visual Undercurrents"
- November 30 "Monument Stories: Cities of the Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula through Monument Biographies" & "A Decolonial Rage Against Monuments"
- December 15 "Printscapes of Solidarity: Palestine, Art and Revolution in Beirut’s long '60s" & "Pedagogies and Archives of Solidarity: the case of Tokyo Posters"
- February 16 "Reading with Children of the Nakba" & "The Impossibilities of Representation: Frictional Conversations in Burj al-Shamali Camp"
- March 16 "Could the Archives Lie? The Disappeared Train" & "Historicizing Egypt’s Aswan High Dam as a story within a story within a story"
- April 27 "Seed Conservation; Creating New Worlds" & "Couscous: Seeds of Dignity"