Events

'Speak, Memory' Symposium

International symposium on archival initiatives and other strategies for the preservation and (re)activation of cultural memory

October 28 - 30, 2010
 Rawabet Theater in Cairo (by the Townhouse Gallery)

Invited speakers include, among others, Susan Meiselas (photographer, New York), Beatrice von Bismarck (curator and writer, Leipzig and Berlin), Kristine Khouri (writer and researcher, Study Group on the History of Arab Modernities, Beirut), Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin (artists, London), Vasif Kortun (curator and director, Platform Garanti, Istanbul), Clare Hsu (director, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong), Barnaby Drabble (curator, writer and co-founder of Curating Degree Zero Archive, Zurich), Farah Wardani (director, Indonesian Visual Art Archive, Jakarta) and Negar Azimi (writer and editor, Bidoun and Arab Image Foundation, New York and Beirut). 

To register for the symposium, please send an email to info@speakmemory.org by September 15, 2010. 

* Speak, Memory (1951) is an autobiographical memoir of Vladimir Nabokov’s childhood in Russia at the beginning of the century and twenty years of subsequent exile.

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