Emiko Stock Talk | To Those, Still, Only Left Alive: Archival Blanks & Speculative Fabulation

The Asian Institute at the University of Toronto, in collaboration with The Department of East Asian Studies, the Cinema Studies Institute, and the Department of Visual Studies UTM, invites you to a workshop with Emiko Stock this April 2^nd, 2024 from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM in room 208N, North House, 1 Devonshire Place, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.

There is always that one image that comes out of any archival digging only to resist everything: it comes with the excitement and promises of clarification, documentation, and explanation. And yet it gives nothing...

In this talk, Emiko Stock starts with a single photograph, one taken among Chams—members of the Muslim minority—during the Cambodian 1960s pre-war era: an annihilation regime marked, notably, by a complete visual erasure, and the systematic destruction of archives, photographs, and family memorabilia. As Stock tries to work with the picture and its call to respect opacity, Stock discusses the potential for SF / Speculative Feminism / Speculative Fabulation to open alternative ways of thinking, analyzing, and writing with reparative generosity.

Register to attend: https://munkschool.utoronto.ca/event/those-still-only-left-alive-archival-blanks-speculative-fabulation