Re-Reading Afghanistan – Visual Worlds and Knowledge Orders in the Afghanistan Journal (1974–1982)

Re-Reading Afghanistan examines the Afghanistan Journal (1974–1982), an extraordinary publication that brought together archaeology, ethnography, geography, urban planning, natural sciences, photography, and visual culture within a shared editorial framework.

The symposium convenes scholars, artists, designers, and researchers to explore how knowledge about Afghanistan was produced, represented, and circulated through the journal.

 

Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
From the Afghanistan Journal to the Journal Afghanistan, and Beyond

Paniz Musawi Natanzi
Tracing Stämme

Fahim Amir
One Country, Many Sciences

Andreas Oberprantacher
Schlepping Through the Pamir

Mona Schieren
Instrumentalizing Children’s Games on Afghan Streets and Squares as “Natural Resource”?

Aslı Serbest
What Would a City* Look Like?

Omar Mohammad
A Windmill, Earth Mosque(s), a Minaret, an Airport, and a Village

Füsun Türetken
Two Covers, One Decade

Natascha Sadr Haghighian
one's own alefba

 

Program and registration here.

With thanks to Jan Charzinski and Alexandra Maarouf, Art and Design Library, University of the Arts Bremen, for their assistance in accessing research materials related to Afghanistan and the Afghanistan Journal.