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Dr. J. (Jamila) Ghaddar PhD

Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Media & Cultuur
Visiting address
  • Turfdraagsterpad 1
Postal address
  • Postbus 94550
    1090 GN Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Publications

    2027

    • Ghaddar, J. (2027). Memory in Revolt: Archiving against genocide in Palestine & Lebanon. Cambridge University Press.

    2025

    Prize / grant

    • Ghaddar, J. (2025). Fighting Erasure: Digitizing Gaza's Genocide & the War on Lebanon.
    • Ghaddar, J. (2024). Safeguarding Palestinian and Lebanese archives and heritage at risk: knowledge exchange and global partnerships for local capacity building and emergency preparedness – training project.
    • Ghaddar, J. (2024). Fighting erasure, safeguarding Palestinian and Lebanese archives at risk: knowledge exchange and global partnerships for local capacity building and emergency preparedness – networking project.

    Membership / relevant position

    • Ghaddar, J. (2026-2027). Research Affiliate at the Landscape Design Ecosystem Management,
      School of Architecture and Design at the American University of Beirut, American University of Beirut.
    • Ghaddar, J. (2024-2025). Research Affiliate at the Palestine Land Studies Center, American University of Beirut.
    • Ghaddar, J. (2024-2026). Founding Director of the Archives & Digital Media Lab, Archives & Digital Media Lab.

    Talk / presentation

    • Ghaddar, J. (speaker) (15-6-2026). Defiance Throughout the Ages Conference, Dalhousie University.
    • Ghaddar, J. (speaker) (16-5-2026). archiving (against) genocide from gaza to south lebanon.
    • Ghaddar, J. (speaker) (8-4-2026). Women in Conflict Zones in Africa, Caribbean, Latin America, Women in Conflict Zones in Africa, Caribbean, Latin America webinar.
    • Ghaddar, J. (speaker) (2-4-2026). Material Liberatory roundtable, Material Liberatory roundtable, Rotterdam.
    • Ghaddar, J. (speaker) (16-1-2026). For Archival Sovereignty and Decolonization: A Conversation between J.J. Ghaddar and Raymond Frogner, University of Toronto.
    • Ghaddar, J. (speaker) (28-11-2025). Anticolonial Struggle Public Roundtable, OsloMet University.
    • Ghaddar, J. (speaker) (27-10-2025). ICA's Fund for the International Development of Archives: Experiences and Prospects, International Council on Archives.
    • Ghaddar, J. (speaker) (3-10-2025). Archiving Palestine: Digital Repositories as Pillars of Resistance and Peace, Hamad Bin Khalifa University.
    • Ghaddar, J. (speaker) (2-10-2025). Resisting Erasure, Het Nieuwe Instituut.
    • Ghaddar, J. (speaker) (26-9-2025). Heritage, Violence and Conflict., UvA University of Amsterdam.
    • Ghaddar, J. (speaker) (27-6-2025). Palestine as Provenance, Fluminense Federal University.
    • Ghaddar, J. (speaker) (27-5-2025). Towards a decolonial archival praxis: fighting erasure, archiving against genocide from Palestine to Lebanon, Uppsala University, Box 256, S-75105 Uppsala.
    • Ghaddar, J. (speaker) (8-5-2025). Knowledge will not set you free, Framer Framed.
    • Ghaddar, J. (speaker) (30-4-2025). Many small (digital) returns, University of Tokyo.
    • Ghaddar, J. (speaker) (13-1-2025). Fighting erasure, digitizing Gaza’s Genocide and the War on Lebanon, International Institute of Social History.

    Others

    • Ghaddar, J. (participant), Karim, M. (organiser), Payne, K. (organiser) & Miyonga, R. (organiser) (3-4-2026 - 13-5-2026). Beyond Extraction: Memory in Revolt Seminar Series. Beyond Extraction: Memory in Revolt is a free virtual seminar series co-hosted by the Archival & Digital Media Lab (ADML) and Nasawiyyah: Arab Media (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Ghaddar, J. (organiser), Roeschley, A. (organiser), Karim, M. (organiser) & Ghanem, R. (organiser) (5-12-2025 - 7-12-2025). Resilient Communities, Resilient Archives Online Conference. Co-convenor with Dr. Ana Roeschley, Dr. Mariam Karim and Rima Ghanem of this virtual conference, an initiative of the Fighting Erasure project, (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Ghaddar, J. (participant), Frogner, R. (participant), Dimashk, G. (participant), Thorpe, K. (participant), Shahwan, R. (participant) & Roeschley, A. (participant) (23-10-2025 - 30-10-2025). International Council on Archives Bi-Annual Congress, Barcelona. Panellist for, Fighting erasure: cases from Palestine, Lebanon, Canada and
      Australia (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Ghaddar, J. (participant), Dimashk, G. (organiser), al-Bazzal, F. (organiser) & Karim, M. (organiser) (10-6-2025 - 14-6-2026). An Exhibition Documenting the Genocide in Gaza & the War on Lebanon  , Beirut (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Ghaddar, J. (participant), Belanger, K. (participant) & Frogner, R. (participant) (9-6-2025 - 12-6-2025). Association of Canadian Archivists Annual Conference, Ottawa. Paneslist, Epistemic violence and the cognitive dispossession of Indigenous peoples: defying the colonial process from Turtle Island to West Asia (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Ghaddar, J. (organiser) (19-5-2025). From Lebanon to Palestine: Fighting Erasure, Archiving against Genocide, Beirut. Hybrid conference featuring local and international speakers, including archival, information and heritage scholars, students and practitioners, as (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Ghaddar, J. (organiser), Morgan, K. (organiser), Dimashk, G. (participant) & Shahwan, R. (participant) (27-1-2025). Cataloguing Palestine: cultural imperialism in subject headings. Co-convened and co-conversant with Kelsey Morgan (Dalhousie University) of this roundtable with Rula Shahwan (Arab American University-Ramallah), (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Ghaddar, J. (participant), Hamzeh, M. (participant), Abdulhadi, F. (participant), Abusitta, S. (participant), Sadek, H. (participant), Rammal, A. (participant), Hariri, M. (participant), el-Bazzal, F. (participant), Hanayshe, S. (participant), Karim, M. (participant), Abu Hashim, A. (participant), Eid, . (participant), Tamari, S. (participant), Sabbagh-Khoury, A. (participant), Barakat, R. (participant), abulhawa, s. (participant) & Abusitta , S. (participant) (24-6-2024 - 21-8-2025). Archives and heritage for Palestine seminar series, 2024-2026, Beirut. Co-convenor and co-host of this seminar series organized by the Fighting Erasure: Digitizing Gaza’s Genocide and the War on Lebanon project, Middle (…) (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
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