Reading Tawfiq Canaan: Against Statelessness as Method, Towards Statelessness as Technology, led by Khaled Malas and Nadine Fattaleh.

25-27 March 2022, from 11am to 5pm each day

Workshop

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Take part in this 3-day workshop, led by researchers Khaled Malas and Nadine Fattaleh, that examines the possible meanings of an assemblage of ‘talismanic objects’ collected in the first decade of the twentieth century by Dr Tawfiq Canaan (1882-1964) and currently housed in a British museum. Dr Canaan was a Palestinian physician, scholar, and collector today most fondly remembered for his ground-breaking ethnographic work on Palestinian folklore and ‘superstition’. Over the course of three days, participants will engage with the scholarship and collections of Dr Canaan through group readings, conversations, and a trip to the museum storage.

Technologies materialise knowledge. Traces of this knowledge – whether artefacts, gestures, or processes – preserve efficacies otherwise ignored or concealed. The workshop aims to explore alternative imaginaries materialised within and from these fragments of stateless heritage, considering ways to restore to objects their radical potential not only by reframing histories of technologies but also by rethinking their deployment within ongoing struggles.

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