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Nadine Fattaleh & Josh MacPhee: A Conversation on Archiving Student Movements
Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.
A conversation about the archiving of student movement materials and ephemera with Nadine Fattaleh (Fall 2024 Student Artist-in-Residence) and Josh MacPhee (Founder, Interference Archive). Vani Natarajan (Librarians and Archivists with Palestine) offers introductory remarks.
NYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event, open to the public. Registration is required and space is limited. Each guest must be registered under their own name and email address. Non-NYU guests may be asked to present a government-issued photo ID. NYU guests must present their NYU ID.
Accessibility note: This venue has an elevator and is accessible for wheelchair users. There are single-stall, all gender restrooms, and a lactation room available. If you have any access needs, please email apa.rsvp@nyu.edu.
Nadine Fattaleh is a Palestinian researcher, writer, and translator from Amman. She is currently a PhD student in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University. Her translation of Khadijeh Habashneh’s Knights of Cinema: The Story of the Palestine Film Unit was published in May 2023. She has worked on film and public programs at Anthology Film Archives, Upstate Films, Maysles Documentary Center, Palestine Cuts, MMAG Foundation, and Mosaic Rooms. She contributes to a number of volunteer initiatives including the Palestine Film Index, an open access compilation of Palestinian cinema resources, and the Palestinian Social Fund, a grassroots, solidarity-based fund supporting agricultural cooperatives in the Occupied West Bank. Her writings have appeared in World Records, Seen Journal, Broudou Magazine, Science for the People Magazine, Jadaliyya, and n+1.
She is the Fall 2024 Student Artist-in-Residence at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.
Josh MacPhee is a designer, artist, and archivist. He is a founding member of both the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and Interference Archive, a public collection of cultural materials produced by social movements based in Brooklyn. MacPhee is the author and editor of numerous publications, including Signs of Change: Social Movement Cultures 1960s to Now and Signal: A Journal of International Political Graphics and Culture. He has organized the Celebrate People’s History poster series since 1998 and his most recent book is Graphic Liberation: Image Making and Political Movements (Common Notions, 2024), a collection of in-depth conversations with international social movement cultural producers.
Vani Natarajan (they) is a research/instruction librarian and poet based in Brooklyn, New York. They are a member of Librarians and Archivists with Palestine. Natarajan’s writing has been published in the Poetry Project Newsletter and the Asian American Writers’ Workshop magazine The Margins. Lately and always, Natarajan is interested in how different modes and practices of writing, cultural work, and memory work can serve as accomplices to liberatory struggle. Natarajan dreams of more time to write, more time to read, more time to play, and more time to be around people they love. Natarajan wants a Free Palestine, a Free Kashmir, the end of prisons and borders, and the end of empire.