The Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Social Justice Noted Scholars Series (co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology) presents:
“Timespaces of Stuckness and Countering”
Dr. Elif Sari and Dr. Rana Abughannam
WHEN & WHERE
Wednesday March 25, 2026
12-1pm
Buchanan Tower, Room 1099
Please RSVP below in advance
A light lunch will be served at 1:00pm
Unfortunately, this event has reached capacity! We will open up a wait list soon to register interest should a space become available. The waitlist does not guarantee a space to this event.
Abstract:
Rana Abughannam (School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture) and Elif Sari (Anthropology) will be in conversation about the colonial and carceral frameworks that render people “stuck” in undesired conditions and people’s grassroots approaches to “counter” these violent, confining conditions. Drawing on their respective work on built heritage conservation practices in Palestine and with LGBTQ+ refugees in Turkey, they will examine the spatial, temporal, affective, and economic dimensions of “stuckness” and “countering,” addressing issues of waiting, immobility, patience, slowness, grounding, and resistance.
About Dr. Elif Sari
Elif Sari is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia. Her scholarship lies at the intersections of sociocultural anthropology; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; migration studies; and Middle East studies. Her research focuses on queer and trans migration, examining Iranian LGBTQ+ refugees’ experiences of waiting and “stuckness” in Turkey and the political economy of queer refugee resettlement in Canada.
About Dr. Rana Abughannam
Rana Abughannam is an Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia. She is a Palestinian architect, scholar, and educator with an interest in the politics that govern urbanism and built heritage. Her research focuses on paradigms of counter-colonization exemplified in Indigenous, bottom-up, and constant practices of resistance against ongoing colonial projects.