Presented by Penn Libraries' Center for Global Collections

What does archival work mean in Afghanistan and its diasporas? What can institutional archives tell us about ways of knowing Afghanistan amid consecutive and concurrent wars, migration, and diasporic (trans)formations in the 20th and 21st century? This panel brings together artists, librarians, and scholars to discuss challenges in the maintenance of collections in Afghanistan and its diasporas as well as the poetic, literary, and artistic possibilities in unsettling archival silences.

Speakers include Alem Afzalli (Graphic Designer), Arzoo Sidiqi (Perso-Arabic Metadata Fellow, Penn Libraries), Shamayel Shalizi (Designer and Artist), Ahmad Rashid Salim (Scholar & Author, UC Berkeley). The panel will be moderated by Paniz Musawi Natanzi (Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities, Wolf Humanities Center).

Cosponsored by the Wolf Humanities Center.