This talk explores anticolonial insurgencies in southern Iraq during and immediately after World War I, as Ottoman institutions retreated and the British occupation advanced. I track heterogenous forms of life—institutions, laws, practices, discursive traditions—and ask about the capacities of survival and resistance they enabled in the midst of war and occupation; shifts and mutations that occurred within and between them in the face of destruction and of the bewildering withdrawal of other institutions and laws; and their limits or incapacities in this shattering historical present.

Speaker

Sara Pursley - Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, New York University

In Person (NYUAD Campus)

The seminar is open to the NYUAD community and by invitation. Please register below.