Annual Elizabeth Colson Lecture 2025 | Living Archives: Palestinian Displacement in Lebanon
This talk addresses the concept of “Living Archives,” which has evolved from my ongoing research as an ethnographer, filmmaker and archivist working with Palestinian refugee communities in Lebanon. It builds on the Nakba Archive––a grassroots testimonial initiative that has documented histories of forced expulsion of 1948––and is premised on the reimagining of archive as a creative, participatory practice that resists fixity and centers process. It draws inspiration from recent shifts in how Palestinian scholars, writers, and artists are rethinking mnemonic and documentary witness practices, and explores camp spaces as stateless archives, mnemonically embodied rather than institutionally housed.
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00
Venue: Queen Elizabeth House, 3 Mansfield Road OX1 3TB
Venue Details: Seminar Room 3
Speaker: Professor Diana Allen (McGill University)
Organising department: Oxford Department of International Development
Organiser contact email address: rsc-outreach@qeh.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Refugee Studies Centre Public Seminar Series
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://rsconlineschool.wufoo.com/forms/zv2l9k11s6mp4m/
Audience: Public
Editor: Jo Boyce