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Lecture and Q&A: The Counter-Archives of the Long Iranian Revolution, with Dr. Chowra Makaremi, CNRS
Thursday, 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM Dec 05th 2024
How can we rethink and adapt the production of empirical knowledge in contexts of violence and impunity, by unfolding the multi-faceted relationship between archives and power? The circulation of people, data, forms of knowledge (investigative forensics, cartography, oral history projects), and actions (people’s tribunals, missing people databases, universal jurisdiction) challenge the relations between power and knowledge when it comes to archives. Notably, various transnational forms of activism have the purpose or effect of producing scattered, incomplete documentation that subvert or challenge knowledge and narratives constructed within nation-state borders and power politics. However, engaging in this counter-hegemonic archival resistance comes at the risk of being reshaped by standardized legal, epistemic, moral grammars and norms. The presentation explores the world of, and the worlds narrated by, these counter-archives through the case of post-revolutionary Iran, and the “long” Iranian revolution (1979-1989).
Chowra Makaremi is a CNRS tenured researcher in the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Politique at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris. She leads the ERC research program OFF-SITE: Violence, State formation and memory politics: an off-site ethnography of post-revolution Iran.
If you would like to attend the 1:00pm lecture via Zoom, please email bilqis@universityofgalway.ie
Category Other
Location AMB G065
Location Type On Campus
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