Department of African & African American StudiesVisual arts in and on Afghanistan: political violence, war and the question of futurity
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Speaker(s): Mohsin Taasha, Shamayel Shalizi, Saadia Batool, Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Anila Daulatzai
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Mohsin Taasha, Visual Artist
Shamayel Shalizi, Multimedia Artist
Saadia Batool, Visual Artist
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, James Madison University
Anila Daulatzai, UC Berkeley
Moderator and convenor: Paniz Musawi Natanzi, Duke University
This panel brings together artists and researchers and queries how to envision futurity in the face of continuous political violence and war in Afghanistan. In reference to discussions in Black Studies and Palestine Studies and feminist and queer studies, futurity describes here the refusal to accept to be reduced to loss, grief and suffering and to be treated like disposable objects by imagining a different modality of subjectivity and alliance-building. Against this backdrop, the panel explores the ways in which political violence and war in Afghanistan has been researched and investigates the archival and analytical labor of visual artists engaging with living and dying in the face of political violence and war.
Mohsin Taasha, Visual Artist
Shamayel Shalizi, Multimedia Artist
Saadia Batool, Visual Artist
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, James Madison University
Anila Daulatzai, UC Berkeley
Moderator and convenor: Paniz Musawi Natanzi, Duke University
This panel brings together artists and researchers and queries how to envision futurity in the face of continuous political violence and war in Afghanistan. In reference to discussions in Black Studies and Palestine Studies and feminist and queer studies, futurity describes here the refusal to accept to be reduced to loss, grief and suffering and to be treated like disposable objects by imagining a different modality of subjectivity and alliance-building. Against this backdrop, the panel explores the ways in which political violence and war in Afghanistan has been researched and investigates the archival and analytical labor of visual artists engaging with living and dying in the face of political violence and war.
Sponsor
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies
Co-Sponsor(s)
Art, Art History & Visual Studies; Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES); Cultural Anthropology; Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
