BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:23450@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:Rememberment: Palestine in Real Time DTSTAMP:20260604T221213Z DTSTART:20260618T180000Z DESCRIPTION:Scenes of bodily humiliation and mutilation have been screaming from our screens\nfor nearly three years. Working through and against the grain of this obvious\,\nubiquitous archive\, Puar and Srouji set out to excavate the longue durée of\ndebilitation in Gaza and conversely\, also t o foreground the praxis of\n“re-member-ment” that highlight Palestinian de termination to become differently\nwhole. Puar will be presenting their le cture performance and discussing the\npolitics of image circulation and co llective witnessing that inspire Puar and\nSrouji‘s collaborative work.\n\ nThis evening at Perdu is the second poetic counterpart to a two-part prog ramme\ncurated by Layal Ftouni. The first event will take the form of a le cture at BAK\nBasecamp in Utrecht on 16th of June (17.00-19.00).\n\n*This event is partially funded by Layal Ftouni’s NWO Veni grant from the Dutch\ nresearch Council.*\n\nBio’s:\n\nJasbir K. Puar is Distinguished Faculty o f Arts Professor in the Social Justice\nInstitute at the University of Bri tish Columbia\, Extraordinary Professor in the\nWomen’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape in\nCape Town\, South Af rica\, and Professor Emerita at Rutgers University where she\nwas faculty in the Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies Department for 23\nyears.\ n\nPuar is the author of the award-winning books: The Right to Maim: Debil ity\,\nCapacity\, Disability (2017)\, which has been translated into Spani sh and is\nforthcoming in Portuguese\, and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonati onalism in Queer\nTimes (2007)\, available in French\, Spanish\, and Portu guese\, and re-issued as an\nexpanded version for its 10th anniversary (20 17). Her articles have been\npublished in journals such as Social Text and South Atlantic Quarterly\,\nmainstream venues such as Al-Jazeera and The Guardian\, and translated into more\nthan 20 languages.\n\nDima Srouji is a Palestinian architect and visual artist exploring the ground as\na deep space of rich cultural weight and a space for potential collective\nrepair . She was the Jameel Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum in 2022-2023\n and currently leading MA City Design studio Underground Palestine at the R oyal\nCollege of Art in London. Her work is part of the permanent collecti ons at the\nStedelijk Museum Amsterdam\, Institut du Monde Arabe\, Corning Museum of Glass\,\nThyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary\, and The Sharjah Art Foundation.\n\nLayal Ftouni\n\nDima Srouji\n\nJasbir K. Puar\n\nGender Programme at Utrecht University\n\nhttps://www.instagram.com/BAKBasecamp [https://www.instagram.com/BAKBasecamp] URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/rememberment-palestine-in-real-time GEO:52.3689174;4.896321 LOCATION:Perdu - Kloveniersburgwal 86\, 1012 CZ Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,books,burgwallen,debate,english,gender,guest p rogramme,lecture,performance,queer,repair X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Scenes of bodily humiliation and mutilation have been screaming from our screens for nearly three years. Working thro ugh and against the grain of this obvious, ubiquitous archive, Puar and Sr ouji set out to excavate the longue durée of debilitation in Gaza and conv ersely, also to foreground the praxis of “re-member-ment” that highlight P alestinian determination to become differently whole. Puar will be present ing their lecture performance and discussing the politics of image circula tion and collective witnessing that inspire Puar and Srouji‘s collaborativ e work.

This evening at Perdu is the second poetic counterpart to a two-part programme curated by Layal Ftouni. The first event will take the form of a lecture at BAK Basecamp in Utrecht on 16th of June (17.00-19.00 ).

*This event is partially funded by Layal Ftouni’s NWO Veni grant from the Dutch research Council.*

Bio’s:

J asbir K. Puar is Distinguished Faculty of Arts Professor in the Social Jus tice Institute at the University of British Columbia, Extraordinary Profes sor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa, and Professor Emerita at Rutgers University where she was faculty in the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Stu dies Department for 23 years.

Puar is the author of the award-winni ng books: The Right to Maim: Debility, Capacity, Disability (2017 ), which has been translated into Spanish and is forthcoming in Portuguese , and Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2007 ), available in French, Spanish, and Portuguese, and re-issued as an expan ded version for its 10th anniversary (2017). Her articles have been publis hed in journals such as Social Text and South Atlantic Quarterly, mainstre am venues such as Al-Jazeera and The Guardian, and translated into more th an 20 languages.

Dima Srouji is a Palestinian architect and visual artist exploring the ground as a deep space of rich cultural weight and a space for potential collective repair. She was the Jameel Fellow at the V ictoria & Albert Museum in 2022-2023 and currently leading MA City Des ign studio Underground Palestine at the Royal College of Art in London. He r work is part of the permanent collections at the Stedelijk Museum Amster dam, Institut du Monde Arabe, Corning Museum of Glass, Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, and The Sharjah Art Foundation.

Layal Ftouni

Dima Srouji

Jasbir K. Puar

Gender Programme at Utrecht Un iversity

https://www.instagram.com/BAKBasecamp

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