Join the Center for Experimental Ethnography for a conversation and screening with Nayrouz Abu Hatoum and Hadeel Assali in conversation with Anna Shah Hoque, which will explore subterranean / submerged ways of knowing and being.

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Nayrouz Abu Hatoum

Nayrouz Abu Hatoum (she/her) is an assistant professor in the department of sociology and anthropology at Concordia University. She was the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University for 2018/2019. Her research explores visual politics in Palestine and focuses on alternative imaginations, people’s place-making and dwelling practices in contexts of settler colonialism. She has published several academic articles in journals such as Geografiska Annaler B, Environment and Planning E, City & Society, Visual Anthropology Review and American Quarterly. Abu Hatoum is a co-founding member of Insaniyyat- Society of Palestinian Anthropologists.

Hadeel Assali

Hadeel Assali is currently the ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Pennsylvania Department of Anthropology. She is a former chemical engineer with nearly 10 years of experience with a major oil corporation. She recently completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Columbia University. Her dissertation, titled "Prophecies of Palestine: Geology and Intimate Knowledge of the Subterranean" explores the colonial legacies of geology in southern Palestine. She is also a filmmaker working on her first feature-length documentary.

Anna Shah Hoque

Anna Shah Hoque (she/her) is a South Asian curator, podcast producer/host, and SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Feminist & Gender Studies, University of Ottawa. Her dissertation examines the role of Indigenous and diasporic South Asian artistic and curatorial practices in producing alternate relationships to archives and temporality amidst Canada's ongoing settler colonial occupation.