Symposium and Screenings on Landscapes of Belonging in the Eastern Mediterranean
Organized by The Heinrich Boell Foundation
Curated by Munira Khayyat and Samar Kanafani
April 2-4, 2009
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  About the event |
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The lands along the eastern Mediterranean brim and beyond are still mired in violence long after the end of the last World War. The nation-state’s struggle for ownership of territory and hegemonic identity continues with protracted wars, upwardly spiraling numbers of refugees, generations of stateless persons, ‘trapped’ populations, burnt and flattened villages, crumbling and emptied city-quarters, silenced and over-written histories. This event examines what is obscured by the shallow surface or ensnared within/out the borders and boundaries of the nation-space by reflecting upon dynamics of exclusion, senses of ‘home’, sediments of movement, trajectories of everyday living, maps of memory, ‘impossible’ identity and genealogies of catastrophic loss. Through the interventions of international scholars and a thematic selection of videos and films, this event trawls beneath the visible landscape for that which constantly unsettles the ever-fragile sense of ‘now’.
International Scholars:Mohamed Kamel Doraï, Nadia Latif, Eleni Myrivili, Marc Nichanian, Arzu Öztürkmen, Julie Peteet, Kirsten Schulze, Nazan Üstündağ
Screenings:
Co-presented with ArteEast
Forget Baghdad (Samir), I, Soldier & The Flag / Bayrak (Köken Ergun), North.. the Fourth Direction (Juan Hamdo), A Day from Home (Samar Kanafani), Life After the Fall (Kasim Abid & Maysoon Pachachi), Journey to the Sun (Yeşim Ustaoğlu), Pasolini P* Palestine (Ayreen Anastas), Do You Remember Sarajevo (Sead and Nihad Kresevljaković), Salata Baladi (Nadia Kamel)
Literary Reading: Abbas Khider
Artist Talk: Ursula Biemann
Opening night, April 2nd 2009, 17:30:
- Reading from The Fake Indian, by Iraqi writer Abbas Khider.
- Screening of the documentary, Forget Baghdad by Samir.
- Ella Shohat and Naim Giladi in conversation via teleconference.
For detailed program and more information: www.boell-meo.org / 01-562978
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