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DTSTART:20131114T190000Z
DTEND:20131114T220000Z
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URL:https://palestinecampaign.c6digital.dev/events/presence-absence-reflec
 tions-fieldwork-palestine/
SUMMARY:In the presence of absence: reflections on fieldwork in Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Goldsmiths Methods Lab\nDISCUSSION\n\nhttp://www.mosaicrooms.or
 g/goldsmiths-methods-lab/\n\nDisappearance and disappearing – not only o
 f cities\, but of the state\, of borders\, of people – bitterly defines 
 the particularity of Palestinian existence. One of the great Palestinian p
 oets\, Mahmoud Darwish\, looking back at his life journey\, described in h
 is last set of poems the experience of constantly finding himself in the p
 resence of his own absence.\n\nThis panel session\, from the Methods Lab a
 t Goldsmiths\, reflects on the different kinds of absences and presences t
 hat they have encountered as part of their work in Palestine and considers
  some of the challenges and responsibilities that such work raises for res
 earchers and visual practitioners.\n\nThe discussion is based on two Golds
 miths projects: Samah Saleh will explore the absences that female Palestin
 ian prisoners must confront in and on their return from Israeli prisons\; 
 Dominika Blachnicka-Ciacek will address her encounters with the ‘ghost
 ’ homes of exiled Palestinians. The discussion will be introduced and ch
 aired by Mariam Motamedi-Fraser.\n\nDominika Blachnicka-Ciacek is a visual
  ethnographer and PhD candidate in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths\, London
 \, where she researches narratives of home\, homeland and return amongst P
 alestinian exiles and their descendants and audio-visually engages with th
 eir diasporic/displacement journeys. In 2012 she served as a human rights 
 observer in East Jerusalem. She has written for Haaretz\, Gazeta Wyborcza\
 , Arabia.pl and Liberte!\n\nSamah Saleh is a PhD candidate in the Sociolog
 y department at Goldsmiths\, London. Her doctoral research is about the ex
 perience of Palestinian women’s incarceration in Israeli prisons. She is
  following women’s lives before\, during and after imprisonment. As a wo
 men’s rights activist in Palestine she has also been involved in a resea
 rch on violence against women and has worked on women rights issues in her
  position in An-Najah national university as a social worker and academic.
 \n\nMariam Motamedi-Fraser teaches in the areas of visuality\, archives\, 
 and the philosophy and methodology of the social sciences in the Sociology
  department at Goldsmiths. She is co-Director\, with Nirmal Puwar\, of the
  Methods Lab. Her current research interests are in the materiality of wor
 ds and the feel/experience of different forms of reason. As well as her ac
 ademic publications\, and a novel\, she has written for Jadaliyya\, Ibraaz
 \, and Sahfeh.\n\nThis event responds to The Mosaic Rooms’ Disappearing 
 Cities of the Arab World programme.\n\nFREE\, rsvp@mosaicrooms.org
LOCATION:The Mosaic Rooms\, Tower House\, 226 Cromwell Road\, London\, SW5 
 0SW\, London \, United Kingdom
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