Decolonial Digital Poetics: A Lecture by Rana A. Sharif

October 28 | 11 AM 

Burnaby Campus, Halpern Centre, Room 114

In this exciting event, Dr. Rana Sharif discussed the digital dimensions of Palestinian liberation movements.

Rana Sharif is an interdisciplinary social scientist, educator, and researcher. Her most recent project explores digital culture and new media technologies in the context of Palestine. She is particularly interested in how new media technologies offer Palestinians new ways to conceive of social and political possibilities otherwise foreclosed due to the logic of settler colonialism and militarization and occupation. Particularly, she explores the ways in which Palestinians in Los Angeles, in Palestine, and transnationally, use new media to chronicle and narrativize alternative ways of existing and the conditions of life, predicated on militarization and occupation, destruction, and resource expropriation. Additionally, she pays particular attention to the gendered dimensions of new media and digital platforms.

Co-Sponsored by SFU’s School of Communication, the Digital Democracies Institute, SFU Global Asia Program, and SFU GSWS