The Cambridge Centre for Palestine Studies is delighted to present the second webinar in our book discussion series, which aims at presenting and discussing books published about pertinent issues to Palestine in various academic disciplines.

We have the pleasure of inviting you to participate in a discussion on Dr. Bashar

Shammout’s most recent book: ‘The Audiovisual Palestinian Heritage, Origin, Dispersion, and Digital Preservation: Preliminary Studies and Future Prospects’.

Dr. Shammout will address Palestine's memory under threat and the issue of cultural heritage

between globalization and occupation. Palestine's historically expansive cultural heritage is held through its many interactions with Europe and other foreign cultures, ethnicities and religious groups, but also through the formative political events of the last century, thus is

particularly rich and diverse. After the creation of the state of Israel on Palestinian land in 1948 this vivid international cultural life ended and the political struggle became the dominant

influence on all forms of Palestinian culture, including audio-visual art and media. The vast majority of this visual and auditory heritage is extremely scattered in various foreign archives and private estates, but little in Palestinian self-administered archives. In the absence of an official Palestinian national archive and within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,

some very significant collections were systematically looted as war booties from the Palestinians and put today under closure in the Israeli military archive.

Date: Thursday 25th February 2021 Time: 6- 7:30 pm (BST), 20:00-21:30 (Palestine)

Via Zoom Meeting ID: 810 7965 3549

Passcode: 919000

Given the global pandemic, and until further notice, the CCPS Book Discussion Series will be held via online facilities and with the contribution of other guests, a

panel will be formed. The output will be posted on the website of CCPS and will be part and parcel of its resources (divided by disciplinary clusters) for further studies.

BOOK DISCUSSION SERIES

The Audiovisual Palestinian Heritage, Origin, Dispersion, and Digital Preservation: Preliminary Studies and Future Prospects

Cambridge Centre for Palest ine Studies Pales t ine House, Cambr idge, UK. https :/ /ccps21.org/ CCPS - Cop yright © Al l r ights reserved

By Dr. Bashar Shammout, a Palestinian sound engineer who lives and works in Germany in the field of music, media art and digital audio-visual archiving. He is a founding member of Birzeit University Media Institute.

Dr. Bashar Shammout

Dr. Bashar Shammout is a Palestinian sound engineer who lives and works in Germany in the field of music, media art and digital audio-visual archiving. He is a member of several cultural

NGOs and has contributed to a number of arts and media education projects in the Palestinian territories, among them the establishment of the Media Institute at Birzeit University.

His book is one of the first research projects about the diversity, history and fragmentation of Palestine’s audio and visual heritage, focusing on the significance of relevant collections and

artefacts and their preservation in international archives. Where mobility and freedom of movement is inhibited, such as in the Palestinian case; digital accessibility to culture, art and knowledge rapidly gain a new definition. The book offers a cultural and academic discussion

of digital accessibility of Palestine’s most significant and relevant collections.

ESTEEMED PANEL:

Director and Convener: Dr. Makram Khoury-Machool

Opening Address: The Rt Hon. Lord (Chris) Smith, Master, Pembroke College, Cambridge & Patron of CCPS

Chair: Prof. Dr. Inga Lemke, University Paderborn, Germany

Author/Speaker: Dr Bashar Shammout

Discussant: Mrs Suher Zaher

Intervention: Mr Nick Chrimes

Vote of Thanks: Mr. Mike Toth

Coordinator: Dr. Victoria Araj

LANGUAGE:

This webinar will be conducted in English.

The Audiovisual Palestinian Heritage, Origin, Dispersion, and Digital Preservation: Preliminary Studies and Future Prospects

Cambridge Centre for Palest ine Studies Pales t ine House, Cambr idge, UK. https :/ /ccps21.org/ CCPS - Cop yright © Al l r ights reserved

BOOK DISCUSSION SERIES