{"id":12278,"date":"2026-04-20T12:18:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/?post_type=events&p=12278"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:18:03","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T10:18:03","slug":"i-am-still-alive","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/c2dh-en\/events\/i-am-still-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m Still Alive\u201d: Palestinian Women\u2019s Digital Testimony and Feminist Resistance in Contemporary Media"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\nAbstract<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This talk examines how Palestinian women use digital platforms to produce political testimony and feminist knowledge under conditions of ongoing war and displacement. Focusing on contemporary forms of digital activism, the lecture explores how online spaces such as Instagram function as counter-archives that document lived experience, challenge dominant media representations, and assert presence in the face of erasure. Drawing on postcolonial and feminist theory, the talk argues that digital testimony transforms survival into a political act, redefining Palestinian women not as passive subjects of humanitarian discourse but as active producers of meaning, history, and resistance. By situating these practices within broader debates on media, power, and representation, the lecture highlights the role of digital environments in reshaping contemporary forms of political expression and knowledge production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\nSpeaker<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Hanan Alawna is visiting scholar<\/a> <\/a>at the C\u00b2DH from 1 May to 30 June 2026. She is a Palestinian scholar specializing in literary and cultural studies, with a focus on feminism, digital media, and contemporary Arab thought. She holds a PhD (Summa Cum Laude) in Literary and Cultural Studies from the University of Szeged, Hungary. Her research spans both literary and digital contexts, examining Palestinian women\u2019s representation and cultural production as sites of resistance. Her doctoral work engaged with Palestinian literature, including the writings of Sahar Khalifeh, analyzing how literary texts challenge and subvert dominant representations of the \u201cThird World\u201d and Middle Eastern woman. Building on this foundation, her current research explores how Palestinian women use digital platforms to produce counter-narratives, document lived realities, and reshape political and cultural discourse. She is currently a Research Fellow at Columbia Global Center-Amman, where she is developing her project on digital resistance and feminist knowledge production in online spaces. Dr. Alawna has presented her work at international conferences and has published on topics related to gender, representation, and Middle Eastern cultural politics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n