MATERIALITY, EVIDENCE AND ARCHIVE WORKSHOP
Anthropological Explorations of Archival and Evidentiary Practices Across Contexts
October 1st-2nd, 2021
Organizers: Zulfikar Hirji, Salman Hussain, Daphne Winland
Welcoming Remarks by the Organizers 10:00 am (EST)
PANEL I: ARCHIVE, MATERIALITY AND THE SENSES 10:15 am-12:45 pm (EST)
Richard Vokes, University of Western Australia
“(Re)sounding Archives: Some Further Reflections on the Idi Amin Photographic Collection”
Zulfikar Hirji, York University
“Reading the Grain: Ethnographic Journeys in an ‘Archive’”
Jillian, Fulton-Melanson York University
“‘Sampling Maghrebi Artistic Culture: Electronic Dance Music as Sonic Archive”
Moderator: Daphne Winland
BREAK 1:00-2:00 pm
PANEL II: EVIDENCE, TRACE AND VIOLENCE 2:00-4:30 pm (EST)
Antonius Robben, Utrecht University
“Archival Agency and the Materiality of Destroyed Evidence in Wartime Rotterdam”
Shahla Talebi, Arizona State University
“Tracing Fading Traces, Bringing in the Senses”
Salman Hussain, York University
“The Politics of Evidence: State Secrecy, Ambiguity and Counterforensic Practice in ‘Missing Persons’ Cases in Pakistan”
Moderator: Zulfikar Hirji
PANEL III: ARCHIVE, HISTORY AND THE NATION 10:00 am – 1:00 pm (EST)
Sana Aziz, Aligarh Muslim University
“Archiving the ‘Colonized’: Medieval Documents and Family Archives Under the ‘Raj’ in South Asia”
Daphne Winland, York University
“A Light unto the Nations”: Archival disruptions in the Israeli Nation-Building Narratives”
Nayrouz Abu Hatoum, Concordia University
“Fugitive Archive: Temporal-Spatial Transgressions of Palestinian Prison Zines”
Amila, Buturović, York University
“Mixing and Matching Words and Objects: Written and Material Evidence in the Study of Islamic Occult Knowledge”
Moderator: Salman Hussain
BREAK 1:00 – 1:30 pm
ROUND TABLE AND A DISCUSSION ON FUTURE PLANS 1:30 – 2:00 pm
(Workshop Participants Only)