Description
This presentation examines the destruction and closure of universities and cultural institutions amidst the ongoing Israeli genocide and war on Lebanon. In Gaza, every single university has been destroyed, while in Lebanon, institutions face ongoing threats of violence, destruction, and forced closures. Moreover, around a quarter of Lebanon’s population has been displaced, and many educational and cultural spaces are now being used as shelters for the displaced. Drawing on ethnographic accounts from Lebanon, I describe forms of communal knowledge-making despite relentless attacks on educational and cultural infrastructures. I also consider what collective practices we might imagine and cultivate, to what effects.
