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Rethinking Archives on Afghanistan

What does archival work mean in Afghanistan and its diasporas? What can institutional archives tell us about ways of knowing Afghanistan amid consecutive and concurrent wars, migration, and diasporic (trans)formations in the 20th and 21st century? 

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April 11, 2025, 1:00pm - 2:30pm
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Hybrid, Online and Class of 1978 Orrery Pavilion, 602 Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center, Floor 6
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Open to the Public
Rethinking Archives of Afghanistan texts with black and gray background

This panel brings together artists, librarians, and scholars to discuss challenges in the maintenance of collections in Afghanistan and its diasporas as well as the poetic, literary, and artistic possibilities in unsettling archival silences.

Speakers include Alem Afzalli (Graphic Designer), Arzoo Sidiqi (Perso-Arabic Metadata Fellow, Penn Libraries), Shamayel Shalizi (Designer and Artist), Ahmad Rashid Salim (Scholar & Author, UC Berkeley). The panel will be moderated by Paniz Musawi Natanzi (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Wolf Humanities Center).

Special Thanks

This program is presented with promotional support from Wolf Humanities Center, Department of South Asia Studies, Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, and South Asia Center.
 

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