pedagogy for archival liberation project
pedagogy for archival liberation project
sharing & creating knowledge for archival decolonization & repatriation
sharing & creating knowledge for archival decolonization & repatriation
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adml (archives & digital media lab) is a proud convener and host of a series of seminar series, guest lectures and curricular development initiatives with a wide range of collaborators, partners, and institutions that connect archivists, scholars, activists, community leaders, grassroots movements and diverse publics together into conversation on what anticolonial, antiracist and decolonial archival praxis is and can be. Fostering South-South and North/South knowledge exchange, collaboration, partnership, and alliance, our pedagogy for liberation initiatives bring people, communities, organizations, and social movements together from the four continents of the world. This pedagogy is inspired by, and draws from, the work of Sherene Razack, Fahia Abdulhadi, bell hooks, Rabab Abdulhadi, Eve Tuck, and Nahla Abdo.
Dr. Jamila J. Ghaddar is a Lebanese archivist, historian, and educator. She is Assistant Professor in Archival Information & Digital Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, founding director of the Archives & Digital Media Lab, and a Research Affiliate at the American University of Beirut’s School of Architecture & Design. Ghaddar serves as Co-Chair of the International Council on Archives’ Palestine Archives Task Force; Chair of the Middle East Librarians Association’s Archives & Records Management Training & Advocacy Group; and co-host of Archives & Heritage in Palestine. Ghaddar serves as a co-lead with Dr. Rami Zurayk and Dr. Hanine Shehadeh of the project, Fighting Erasure: Digitizing Gaza’s Genocide and the War on Lebanon.
Dr. Mariam Karim is a Global Postdoctoral Scholar at the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar (#IAS_NUQ) and the founder of the digital humanities project, Nasawiyyah: Arab Media History. She is a member of the Steering Council of the Archives & Digital Media Lab. Karim completed her PhD at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Information (iSchool) and the Women and Gender Studies Institute (WGSI). She served as an inaugural graduate fellow at the University of Toronto's Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) and was the recipient of the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) doctoral award. Her research agenda explores Arab women’s media from the 20th century. She situates contemporary uses of digital media through historical inquiry and studies Arabic mass-media in the context of media imperialism and colonialism. Read her work in Communication, Culture & Critique and First Monday. @nasawiyyah
Rose Miyonga is a PhD candidate at the University of Warwick, where her research focuses on the making of histories and memories of the Mau Mau War in post-independence Kenya. She holds a Masters in Race and Resistance from the University of Leeds. Her current research is concerned with questions of archival silence, and sources that speak into the gap between government records and lived experience using participatory research methodologies, non-traditional archives, and oral histories.
Krystal Payne (she/her) is a settler archivist and PhD student living in Treaty One territory and on the homeland of the Red River Métis. Krystal came to archives after working in community health education and continues to apply feminist, healing-centred and social justice-focused relational orientations to her archival teaching and research work. Her research on archival harm reduction has been published in Archivaria, and she is currently studying at the intersections of colonial archives, archival sovereignty and violence, trauma and healing in archives.
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