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Samar Zora Memorial Lecture 2026

Monday, March 23, 2026 12:30to14:00
Leacock Building 232, 855 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 2T7, CA
Poster with event details on a photo of a beach, taken by Samar Zora

The Samar Zora Memorial Event is a student-led event in the department of anthropology to commemorate Samar Zora, former student, interlocutor, and friend, who died in the earthquake that struck Eastern Turkey and Northwestern Syria on February 6, 2023. Held in her honour, the event foregrounds innovative research on the anthropology of the Middle East and the anthropology of religion - areas closely aligned with Samar鈥檚 academic focus.

This year's lecture will be by听Stefania Pandolfo,听Professor of Anthropology (UC Berkeley), entitled听The Disappeared.

Abstract:
鈥淢y 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 death, pointing an exigency to think and 'see otherwise.' Moving between my ethnography of madness and imagination in Morocco and my collaboration with the Syrian film collective Abounaddara, their short films realized during 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 worlds, at the border of the visible and the invisible.鈥

Bio:
Stefania Pandolfo鈥痠s a Professor and Lowie Distinguished Chair in the Department of Anthropology and member of the programs in Critical Theory and Medical Anthropology at UC Berkeley. Her work centers on subjectivity, imagination, memory, trauma, and the experience of madness, with a focus on the Maghreb and Islam and in conversation with psychoanalysis and Islamic thought.鈥疭he is the author of鈥Knot of the Soul:鈥疢补诲苍别蝉蝉, Psychoanalysis, Islam鈥(Chicago 2018);鈥Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a Moroccan Space of Memory鈥(Chicago 1997); and co-author with鈥疉nn Lovell, Veena Das, and Sandra Laugier鈥痮f鈥Face aux d茅sastres: Une conversation 脿 quatre voix sur la folie, le care, et les grandes d茅tresses collectives鈥(Editions d鈥橧thaque, Paris, 2013 and 2025).鈥疭he guest curated Matrix 274, 鈥闯鈥檃肠肠耻蝉别鈥, a contemporary art exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum featuring the work of Kader Attia, and co-curated an exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum entitled, 鈥Abounaddara: The Ruins We Carry鈥. She is currently working on a book tentatively entitled Art-Cure: Imagework at a Time of Catastrophe.

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