Participation: The past is not another country

Multimodal research seminar with Diana Allan, McGill University.

Diana Allan is a filmmaker and anthropologist at McGill University and a graduate from Harvard's Sensory Ethnography Lab. She co-directs the Critical Media Lab at McGill, is a member of Anthropology for the Ecozoic, and founder of the Nakba Archive, which has documented histories of the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians in Lebanon.

Her current multimodal project, Past Continuous, explores the ontology of camps as living archives. Other present research touches on Palestinian coastal life then and now, labor at sea, community-based food production and urban food gardens in Lebanon, and ongoing collaborations with activists, scholars, artists and community members to develop digital pedagogical platforms that engage the history and concerns of refugee communities today.

For the event on Diana Allan will screen and discuss “Partition”. The event is moderated by Marie Odgaard.