The Archival & Digital Media Lab (ADML) and Nasawiyyah: Arab Media History are cohosting Beyond Extraction: Memory in Revolt, a free online seminar series that is
committed to confronting and dismantling the colonial and white supremacist logics that continue to structure archives, media infrastructures, and heritage institutions. Moving beyond extraction as both method and metaphor, the series insists that memory is not a resource to be mined, catalogued, or commodified—but a living terrain of struggle. It spotlights the incredible intergenerational work of students, scholars and practitioners to preserve resistant histories and alternative knowledge in the present and for the future.
Beyond Extraction: Memory in Revolt is part of the Pedagogy for Archival Liberation Project, led by Dr. Jamila Ghaddar (University of Amsterdam), Dr. Mariam Karim (Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South at Northwestern University in Qatar), Rose Miyonga (University of Warwick), and Krystal Payne (University of Manitoba). The Pedagogy for Archival Liberation Project “advances South–South and South–North exchanges that reject extractive knowledge economies and instead cultivate solidarities grounded in accountability, reciprocity, and return.”
The series’ upcoming event is a talk by Dr. Myriam Dalal (Goldsmiths, University of London) on May 6, 2026. Entitled “Guerrilla Public History: Applying a Radical Methodology of Reclaiming History(ies), Stripped Away Through Violence,” those interested in attending can register here.
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