RGDST : Creating Visual Archives for/of Palestine

Creating Visual Archives for/of Palestine

Dec 4 Wednesday 3 PM PST / 6 PM EST Montreal / Dec 5 Thursday 1 AM Beirut / 8 AM Tokyo

Online event. Duration: 90 min

To register: https://www.mcgill.ca/lin-centre/palestinevizualized

Jessica Anderson, Visualizing Palestine :  “Data Storytelling for Palestinian Liberation”

Human rights researcher and Deputy Director of Visualizing Palestine

Co-Editor of Visualizing Palestine: A Chronicle of Colonialism and the Struggle for Liberation (2024)

https://visualizingpalestine.org

Nisreen Zahda, VRJ Palestine : “Virtual Reconstructions of Palestine”

Tokyo-based architect and virtual reality artist;

Creator of “Nakba Animated Map” and other virtual reality reconstructions

https://vrjpalestine.com/2022/05/21/nakba-map/

Jamila Ghaddar, Archives & Digital Media Lab : “Archiving against genocide, digital storytelling for liberation and return"

Project Co-Founder, Fighting Erasure: Digitizing the Gaza Genocide & War on Lebanon

Assistant Professor, Dept. of Information, Dalhousie University

https://www.archiveslab.org/projects/fighting-erasure

This panel discussion will feature presentations by Jessica Anderson (Visualizing Palestine), Nisreen Zahda (VRJ Palestine) and Jamila Ghaddar (Dalhousie University). The Q&A will be moderated by Patricia Morton (UC Riverside) and Ipek Türeli (McGill University) on behalf of the Coalition for the Study of the Built Environments of Palestine.

This event follows on from a previous online event organized by our group and moderated by Patricia Morton where Zeynep Celik and Salim Tamari discussed “Surveillance, Cartography and Aerial Imagining and the Conquest of Palestine.”

This event is sponsored and hosted by the Research Group on Democracy, Space, and Technology, Lin Centre, McGill University.