SARA PURSLEY The Times of Revolution in Jawad Salim’s Monument to Freedom скачать в хорошем качестве

SARA PURSLEY The Times of Revolution in Jawad Salim’s Monument to Freedom

The Iraqi artist Jawad Salim’s famous Monument to Freedom, which still stands in Baghdad’s Liberation Square, is usually read as a linear historical narrative of the Iraqi nationalist movement and the 1958 revolution it produced. Pursley’s talk explores heterogeneous conceptions of time in the work, including depictions of cyclical forms of temporality that reference Khaldunian historical time, Shi`i messianic time, and the time of mourning. She suggests that these forms of time do not work against promises of radical change in the monument, but, on the contrary, give such promises more imaginative purchase than they typically achieve in linear modernization narratives, with their tendency to open onto a singular and static future. Pursley’s talk is followed by Q&A with Sinan Antoon, award-winning author and Associate Professor at the Gallatin School at New York University. Sara Pursley is Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. The talk was sponsored by the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries Series and by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment. It took place on May 10, 2018 in the McCune Conference Room, IHC, UC Santa Barbara.