Day: <span>January 9, 2024</span>

https://orfaleacenter.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Raed_Interview_ED.mp3 On the Exilic Condition, Queerness as a Verb, and Writing through Imagery – An Interview with Dr. Raed Rafei  In this episode, Dr. Raed Rafei tells us about how his experiences as a filmmaker and journalist have impacted his scholarship and vis versa. In the podcast, we speak about his work in Lebanon, his […]Read More

Cops-Off Campus, Being in Community, and Global Policing – An Interview with Dr. Andrew Johnson In this episode, we speak to Dr. Andrew Johnson, who formed a core part of this research cluster when he worked as a graduate fellow with the Orfalea Center before receiving his PhD from UCSB in 2022. Dr. Johnson recounted […]Read More

On Researching Torture and the Fight Against It – An Interview with Dr. Lisa Hajjar: In this episode, Dr. Lisa Hajjar, a professor of Sociology at UCSB, shares with us her 20-year journey of research that culminated in her latest book,  The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight Against Torture. Dr. Hajjar recounts some of the […]Read More

What Can we Learn from the Gulag Today? – An Interview with Alexandra Noi: From receiving a doctorate in Chinese Literature from St. Petersburg State University, to pursuing a PhD in History at the University of California Santa Barbara, Alexandra Noi’s multi-faceted scholarly trajectory gives us an interesting lens for thinking comparatively about authoritarianism, repression, […]Read More

Using the Archive for a Different Public Memory – An Interview with Salma Shash: In this episode, Salma Shash shares how her experiences in Egyptian feminist and activist/political networks have impacted her research interests, her thoughts on how to make use of governmental or state-owned archives to create a different public memory, and some of […]Read More

Ethnography and Archives from the Margins – An Interview with Mina Ibrahim Alongside his scholarly and academic work, Mina Ibrahim is a project coordinator for the MENA Prison Forum, an invaluable global partner to the Structural Violence, Decoloniality, and Police/Prison Abolition research cluster. He is also the founder of SARD, an archival and research center […]Read More