Birzeit University S Digital Archive in an International Perspective

Globalizing Palestine: Birzeit University’s Digital Archive in an International Perspective – Towards a Chaotic Order The Birzeit University Digital Palestinian Archive at the Ibrahim Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies (IALIIS) announces the holding of a two-day conference at Birzeit University entitled: “Globalizing Palestine: Birzeit University’s Archive in an International Perspective – Towards a Chaotic Order.”

Monday and Tuesday March 24-25, 2014

Simultaneous translation is available

Monday, March 24, 2014

Day One: PLACES

8:30 – 9:00 Registration

9:00-10:20 Conference Opening and Keynote Address

Moderator: to be determined

(10 minutes) Birzeit University: Words of Greeting.

(10 minutes) Abdul Karim Al-Barghouthi, Director, IALIIS: Words of Introduction.

(40 minutes) Ann Laura Stoler, keynote: Archiving Palestine: The Conceptual Power of Dissensus

(20 minutes) Open Discussion

10:20 – 10:35 Coffee Break

10:35-12:25 First Session: Fragments

20 Minutes Anoush Suni, The Ruin as Archive: Landscape and Memory in Anatolia. Abstract(English)

20 Minutes Hamed Salem, Pottery as a Source for the Ancient History of the Everyday Abstract(Arabic)

20 Minutes Carsten Walbiner, Faith in History: Archival Materials of the Near Eastern Christian Communities Abstract(English)

20 Minutes Salim Tamari, Memoirs and Biographies of Childhood in Palestine: Problems with Source Material Abstract(English)

30 Minutes Open Discussion

12:25-13:25 Lunch Break

13:25-15:15 Second Session: Regimes

20 Minutes Ronald Suny, “Rasekretevanie:” The Un-Secreting of Soviet Archives Abstract(English)

20 Minutes Daniel Lowe, The Colonial Archive in a Post-Colonial and Digital Age: Persian Gulf Records Abstract(English)

20 Minutes Alexis Wick, Ranke of the Arabs: Asad Rustum and the Making of Post- Ottoman History Abstract(English)

20 Minutes Roger Heacock, The Habsburg Dance of Death, 1916-1918: Foreign Ministry Documents as a Mask Abstract(English)

15:15– 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:20 Third Session: Words

20 Minutes Dorothy Sheridan, A Counter-Archive? Ideas for Palestine from the British- based “Mass Observation Project” Abstract(English)

20 Minutes Musa Sroor, Waqf Documents as a Source for the History of Jerusalem Abstract(Arabic)

20 Minutes Vincent Lemire and Falestin Naïli, Globalizing Jerusalem: For a Transnational, Open and Bottom-Up Database of Primary Archives

20 Minutes Emilio Dabed, The Archives of the Palestinian Legislative Council: Interplay of Shadows and Light

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

Day Two: TIMES

8:30 – 9:00 Registration

9:00-10:50 Fourth Session: Loss

20 Minutes Rana Barakat, Remembering Lifta or the Tensions of Oral Archiving Abstract(English)

20 Minutes Jihane Sfeir, The Online Archives of the Nakba: Between History and Memory Abstract(English)

20 Minutes Samih Shabib, Lost Documents of the PLO: The Fate of the Research Center Abstract(English)

20 Minutes Abeer Shaheen, The Iraqi Archive Between Dispersal and Fragmentation Abstract(English)

10:50-11:05 Coffee Break

11:05-12:55 Fifth Session: Agency

20 Minutes Martin Bunton, How Mandatory? Records of British Rule in Palestine, 1917- 1948 Abstract(English)

20 Minutes Samih Hammoudeh, Documents of the Great Palestinian Revolt, 1936-1939: Family Papers Abstract(English)

20 Minutes Heidi Morrison, Past or Present? Towards an Oral History Archive of the Second Intifada Abstract(English)

20 Minutes Ilana Feldman, The Archive and the Work of the Present Abstract(English)

12:55-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:50 Sixth Session: Reflections

20 Minutes Rosemary Sayigh, Oral History and the Absence of State. (Via Skype) Abstract (English)

20 Minutes Adel Yahya, The Outcome of Palestinian Oral History Projects Abstract(English)

20 Minutes Sherna Gluck, Lessons from the California State University, Long Beach Virtual/Oral History Archive Abstract(English)

20 Minutes Marta Cariello, Digital Archives of Palestine: Desire and Anticipated Memories Abstract(English)

15:50-16:05 Coffee Break

16:05-17:50 Seventh Session: Tomorrows

Moderator: to be determined 20 Minutes Adnan Yahya, Information Technology as Cultural Heritage Preservation Tool Abstract(English)

20 Minutes Saleh Abdel Jawad, Palestinian Archives: General Observations Abstract(Arabic)

20 Minutes Lourdes Habash & Raed Bader, Birzeit’s Digital Palestinian Archive: A Critical Appraisal Abstract(Arabic)

15 Minutes Concluding Remarks