The Politics of Memory, Navigating Institutional and Personal Archives with Mohanad Yaqubi

The Politics of Memory, Navigating Institutional and Personal Archives with Mohanad Yaqubi

This session will examine how the processes of collecting, organizing, and narrating archives are inherently political acts. Through this exploration, we will uncover the complexities and transformative potential of archival practices, highlighting their ability to reflect or challenge dominant historical narratives.

Our guest for this session is filmmaker Mohanad Yaqubi, part of the Brussels and Ramallah based collective Subversive Film. Working at the intersection of film making, programming and archival practice, Subversive Film aim to cast new light upon historic works related to Palestine. In the session Yakubi will introduce a new contribution to L’Internationale Online. Showing excerpts from several titles from the Palestine cinema anthology, the session is approached as an act of interruption in colonial and post-colonial contexts, a move to resist history writing, and as a way to explore the possibilities of archiving in times of genocide.

Schedule:  

• 14:30 - 15:30 Public Lecture 

• 15:45 - 16:45 Group Discussion