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“We, the Living Archives” Publication Launch

Join us to celebrate the publication launch of “We, the Living Archives”.

April 11, 2026

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Thematic Threads: Reflections on a Peer-to-Peer Partnership

Multidisciplinary artist and producer Danni Ebanks-Ingram and cultural geographer Carol Ann Dixon established a peer-to-peer partnership through which to explore and discuss shared interests in the oeuvres and art-political activism of contemporary artists who use their creativity to highlight and draw attention to issues of socio-economic, racial and environmental injustice worldwide.

April 9, 2026

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Playing with the Past: Encounters with the Archive

In this essay, Devika reflects on what it means to “play” with the past and how “play” can serve as a powerful pedagogical, participatory, and political tool for re-encountering the past.

March 23, 2026

Image 1. The Struggle Continues. Atelier Populaire, 1968.

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The Organising Poster

What can movement archives teach us about creative production and AI? Nancy Salem traces three political archives to ask: who owns the means to produce knowledge and what is it for?

March 3, 2026

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Joy / Resistance

In Joy/Resistance, Corrd centres Black joy as an emancipatory force and everyday resistance.

February 13, 2026

Mind the Gap: Heritage Work in a Fractured Present

JC Niala and Johanna Zetterström-Sharp reflect on what happens when institutions that have traditionally done memory work on behalf of society find themselves facing a society that is itself fractured through loss.

February 2, 2026

Who does the work?

Decolonising archives is often unpaid labour led by diasporic and indigenous memory workers. Erinma Ochu, Tosin Olufon, Nadine Aranki and Abira Hussein reflect on care, refusal, solidarity and community-held alternatives.

January 16, 2026

Heritage and Ephemerality: The Politics of Black Cultural Memory

Inspired by Stuart Hall’s work, Dr. Lisa Amanda Palmer invites readers to think about questions of ephemerality and heritage.

January 6, 2026

Family Photographs from the Vietnamese Diaspora Set In Motion

Family photographs from the Vietnamese diaspora become living records of memory and migration. Carô Gervay invites us to witness how images move across generations, repaired, reimagined, and set in motion.

December 11, 2025

Mother Tongue – Language, Memory and Heritage

Dr. Tola Dabiri traces the genesis of this idea to the recurring discussions of mothers, their languages, and the inheritance of stories, at the April 2025 #UKCommunityofPractice convening. Since then, Dabiri has researched global changes in language diversity, examples of language loss, preservation, and safeguarding, and educational and legislative interventions.

December 1, 2025