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SUMMARY:)18th Annual Nikos Poulantzas Memorial Lecture (event)
DESCRIPTION:18th Annual Nikos Poulantzas Memorial Lecture \nDecember 19 @ 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM \n\n18th Annual Nikos Poulantzas Memorial Lecture \n\nFriday\, December 19\, 7:00 PM. Goethe-Institut Auditorium\, 14-16 Omirou St.\, Athens. \n\nEduardo Cantava \n  \nProfessor of American Literature & Philip Mayhew Chair\, Princeton University. \n  \nLearning to Read History: Fazal Sheikh’s Erasure Trilogy \nThe Nikos Poulantzas Institute is organizing the 18th Annual Nikos Poulantzas Memorial Lecture\, on Friday\, December 19\, at 7:00 PM\, at the Goethe-Institut Auditorium (14-16 Omirou St.\, Athens). \nThe keynote speaker is Eduardo Cadava\, Professor of American Literature and Philip Mayhew Chair at Princeton University. \nTopic of the lecture \nTitle: “Learning to Read History: Fazal Sheikh’s Erasure Trilogy” \n  \nThe lecture is based on Fazal Sheikh’s multi-volume photographic work\, Erasure Trilogy (2015). The focus is on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Israeli side’s ongoing effort to erase both the violence it perpetrates and the acts of erasure themselves. \nBy exploring the legacy of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War\, Eduardo Candava highlights the mechanisms of this “double erasure” and the possibilities of resistance to it. Drawing on theoretical and literary texts by Walter Benjamin\, Mahmoud Darwish\, Jacques Derrida\, Judith Butler\, and Eyal Weizmann\, the speaker argues that the Erasure Trilogy functions as a training manual for how to read history in times of danger; a crucial tool for understanding\, analyzing\, and resisting the ongoing genocide in Gaza. \nSpeaker: Eduardo Candava \nEduardo Candava is Professor of American Literature and Philip Mayhew Chair at Princeton University. He collaborates\, among others\, with the Department of Comparative Literature\, the School of Architecture\, the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies\, and the University’s Institute for International and Regional Studies. \nHis work spans American literature and culture\, the theory and history of photography\, comparative literature\, political theory and philosophy\, media technologies\, and translation theory. He has also written extensively on architecture\, music\, democracy\, war\, memory and forgetting\, racial discrimination and slavery\, human rights\, and citizenship. \nHe is the author\, among others\, of the following works: \nEmerson and the Climates of History \nWords of Light: Theses on the Photography of History \nPaper Graveyards \nPolitically Red (in collaboration with Sara Nadal-Melsió). \n  \nHe is currently completing two new books: Erasures\, dedicated to Fazal Sheikh’s Erasure Trilogy\, and “What Interests Me Has Always Had Its Place There”: Derrida on Palestine\, in which he examines Jacques Derrida’s thought in relation to Palestine. \nThe event will be prefaced by Maria Repoussi\, historian\, director and scientific director of the Nikos Poulantzas Institute. \nThe speaker is introduced by Mina Karavanta\, Associate Professor of Literature and Culture in the Department of English Language and Literature\, Faculty of Philosophy\, NKUA. \nMina Karavanta is an Associate Professor in the Department of Literature and Culture in the Department of English Language and Literature\, Faculty of Philosophy\, NKUA. Her research and teaching focuses on: postcolonial and decolonial studies\, poststructuralist theory and comparative literature\, contemporary and world English-language literature. \nPractical information \nDate: Friday\, December 19 \nStarting time: 19:00 \nVenue: Goethe-Institut Amphitheatre\, Omirou 14–16\, Athens \nAdmission: Free \nInterpretation: There will be simultaneous interpretation during the lecture. \nThe lecture is part of the annual event of the Nikos Poulantzas Institute\, dedicated to the memory of the distinguished Marxist theorist. This year’s event highlights the role of photography as a tool for critical reading of history and the present\, in a period of uncontrolled violence against the people of Palestine. \n  \nContact \nNikos Poulantzas Institute \nPhone: 2103217745 \nEmail: info@poulantzas.gr \nWebsite: https://poulantzas.gr/ \n \nImage: Logbook entries from the period of the Nakba\, 1948\, Al-Akbi Family Archive. The pages reproduced in this photograph document correspondence between the Palestinian Governor-General and the Governor of Bir al-Sabaʿ (Beersheba)\, reporting the collapse of the Al-Akbi defenses after an engagement with Israeli forces. The report notes the use of armored units\, the seizure and destruction of defensive positions\, and the confiscation of weapons and ammunition\, as well as casualties among the Arab forces. © Fazal Sheikh\, The Conflict Shoreline\, Steidl\, 2015.\n  \n \nImage: Tree-planting activities for the Ambassador Forest at the site of the former Bedouin village of Abu Abdoon\, which was evacuated and destroyed in the winter of 1948. The planting was organized by the Jewish National Fund (JNF)\, an organization involved in afforestation and settlement development. © Fazal Sheikh\, Desert Bloom\, 2011.
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LOCATION:Goethe – Ομήρου 14 – 16\, Ομήρου 14-16\, Αθήνα\, Αττική\, 10672\, Greece
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