The eighth in a series of ten public events interrogating how heritage and contemporary creativity enhance and affect both quality of life and sustainability in a range of Muslim contexts, co-produced by Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture and held in the iconic Aga Khan Centre.

This conversation focuses on how intense experiences during the Egyptian revolts in 2011 and afterwards are connected to the city of Cairo, to artefacts and other bodies. There is no distinct separation between bodies, things, and cityscapes; instead, these are intimately interconnected—a thick entanglement—and the ‘transmission of affect’ constantly flows between matter, space, and place. In Egypt as elsewhere, temporality and frequency clearly influence these flows. Maria Frederika Malmström and Jonas Otterbeck will also discuss the notion of the afterlife of the uprisings in 2011 and why it is imperative in order to situate the temporal layer, since every afterlife of a critical event does not only influence actions today but also creates new affective worlds.

SPEAKERS:

Maria Frederika Malmström, Associate Professor, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, and Associate Research Scholar, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University.

Jonas Otterbeck, Professor of Islamic Studies, Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations.

Register to attend here.

Previous lectures in the series can be found on the AKU-ISMC YouTube channel.

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