FW: Event: Regarding the Burning, Oct 23
Aliya Saidi
Sheikh Zayed Chair for Arab and Islamic Studies
Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies
Regarding the Burning
In this presentation, in two parts and two voices, an anthropologist and a collective of image-makers will reflect on the effort to capture moments of burning, individual and collective, in their destructive and creative force.
Part one: Knots of the Soul
Through ethnography that moves from a psychiatric hospital to Quranic cures for madness in Morocco, Stefania Pandolfo reflects on shattering and the restorative work of liturgical form, linking the psyche and the soul, the intimate lives of individuals, and collective histories and futures.
Part Two: A Screening
Through documentary shorts presenting anonymous people engaged in revolution and war, the Syrian film collective Abounaddara seeks to find an aesthetic form to approach the instability of a human experience unfolding beyond good and evil.
Bios:
Stefania Pandolfo is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Berkeley. She studies theories and forms of subjectivity, and their contemporary predicaments in the Middle Eastern and Muslim world, investigating narrative, trauma, psychoanalysis and the unconscious, memory, historicity, and the hermeneutics of disjuncture, language and poetics, experimental ethnographic writing, anthropology and literature, dreaming and the anthropological study of the imagination, intercultural approaches to different ontologies and systems of knowledge, modernity, colonialism and postcolonialism, madness and mental illness.
Abounaddara is a collective of Syrian filmmakers who work anonymously. Since 2010, they have produced two feature films and over 300 shorts outside the circuits of national and international production and distribution. principle of dignity, rather than rights-based formulations on the basis of property or privacy. To this end, they have collaborated, debated, and published with newspapers and universities across the world.
Monday, Oct 23, 2023
17:00-19:00
Basile Antoine Meguerdiche Conference Hall
(IFI Auditorium, B level)
For registration, please email aa...@aub.edu.lb