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Instant Coffee Season 3: Technology

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Episode 5: Archiving and Mapping Technologies in Palestine and Syria

Majd Al-Shihabi of 'Palestine Open Maps' and Sana Yazigi of the 'Creative Memory of the Syrian Revolution' talk to us about how they have centered their archiving processes around maps, and what the digital archiving can do for Palestinian and Syrian community-building.

This episode also features comment from Dr Sara Salem and Dr Mai Taha of LSE, who explore the importance of creative archiving through their project 'Archive Stories'.

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Conversations on Positionality with Anne Kirstine Rønn

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Episode 8: Nicola Pratt on Ethics and the Responsibility to Counter Repression

In this last episode of the series, Anne Kirstine speaks to Nicola Pratt about her views on the role of researchers in society. Nicola reflects on the ethical responsibilities of researchers to fight repression and the importance of engaging in political debates about their subject matter. She also reflects on the importance of relations in a time where extractivism has become a widespread research method.

Nicola is Professor of International Politics of the Middle East at the University of Warwick. Her publications have explored women's activism, democratisation, human rights and conflict in a number of Middle Eastern countries.

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Event Recordings

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Co-organised with the LSE Firoz Lalji Institute for Africa 

Political Elites, Civil Society and the Future of Sudan

Tuesday 5 March | 18:00 - 19:30 GMT | Mai Hassan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Kholood Khair, Confluence Advisory

Listen to the recording on SoundCloud
Watch the recording on YouTube