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DESCRIPTION:The Samar Zora Memorial Event is a student-led event in the dep
 artment of anthropology to commemorate Samar Zora\, former student\, inter
 locutor\, and friend\, who died in the earthquake that struck Eastern Turk
 ey and Northwestern Syria on February 6\, 2023. Held in her honour\, the e
 vent foregrounds innovative research on the anthropology of the Middle Eas
 t and the anthropology of religion - areas closely aligned with Samar’s ac
 ademic focus.\n\n \n\nThis year's lecture will be by Stefania Pandolfo\, P
 rofessor of Anthropology (UC Berkeley)\, entitled The Disappeared. \n\nAbs
 tract:\n	“My presentation is drawn from a book in process and is scarred by
  this moment and its spectral inscriptions\, at a time when destruction is
  a continuous event in the MENA region\, as the field of life and daily de
 ath\, pointing an exigency to think and 'see otherwise.' Moving between my
  ethnography of madness and imagination in Morocco and my collaboration wi
 th the Syrian film collective Abounaddara\, their short films realized dur
 ing the revolution and civil war\, and 'The Imagemaker' (2024)\, I explore
  liturgical\, devotional\, and artistic practices of the living image amid
  a history of destruction\, and the capacity of form to disclose other wor
 lds\, at the border of the visible and the invisible.”\n\nBio:\n	Stefania P
 andolfo is a Professor and Lowie Distinguished Chair in the Department of 
 Anthropology and member of the programs in Critical Theory and Medical Ant
 hropology at UC Berkeley. Her work centers on subjectivity\, imagination\,
  memory\, trauma\, and the experience of madness\, with a focus on the Mag
 hreb and Islam and in conversation with psychoanalysis and Islamic thought
 . She is the author of Knot of the Soul: Madness\, Psychoanalysis\, Islam 
 (Chicago 2018)\; Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a Moroccan Space of Me
 mory (Chicago 1997)\; and co-author with Ann Lovell\, Veena Das\, and Sand
 ra Laugier of Face aux désastres: Une conversation à quatre voix sur la fo
 lie\, le care\, et les grandes détresses collectives (Editions d’Ithaque\,
  Paris\, 2013 and 2025). She guest curated Matrix 274\, “J’accuse”\, a con
 temporary art exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum featuring the work of 
 Kader Attia\, and co-curated an exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum enti
 tled\, “Abounaddara: The Ruins We Carry”. She is currently working on a bo
 ok tentatively entitled Art-Cure: Imagework at a Time of Catastrophe.\n\n 
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LOCATION:232\, Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855 rue Sh
 erbrooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Samar Zora Memorial Lecture 2026
URL:/anthropology/channels/event/samar-zora-memorial-l
 ecture-2026-371999
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