Jewels that Resist: Against Colonial Geographies, a conversation with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

‘The Question of Palestine’ seminar series

Following up on the ongoing conflict in the Middle East/SWANA region, the Center for Contemporary and Digital History presents an online seminar series on “The Question of Palestine”.

In this series, we invite academics and subject matter experts to present their research and work which speaks on the historical context of the conflict in the region and its implications on the different practices from migration studies to cultural heritage, archival practices, filmmaking, feminist theory and data visualization.

• Session 1 – The ‘Peace’ to Come? The Abraham Accords as a Model
• Session 2 – Jewels that Resist: Against Colonial Geographies, a conversation with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay
• Session 3 – History of Palestinian Women Through Film and Photography
• Session 4 – Visualizing Palestine: Data Visualization and Difficult Histories

Session 2 – Jewels that Resist: Against Colonial Geographies, a conversation with Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Speaker: Prof. Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

Chair: assist .prof. Frédéric Clavert & Dr. Myriam Dalal

Discussant: Natália Martins.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is a researcher, curator and theorist of photography. She is an author, art curator, filmmaker, and theorist of photography and visual culture. Azoulay is also a professor of Modern Culture and Media and the Department of Comparative Literature at Brown University and an independent curator of Archives and Exhibitions.
She is invited to discuss her work broadly on photography, cultural heritage and representation, with a focus on her recent book The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World.

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