NAZAR 2026 Speaker Series

 All events will take place on Concordia’s downtown campus, and we will publicize each speaker with their own flyers including exact room numbers and exact times for all lectures and workshops. We are hoping to make as many events as accessible as possible, so we will work on getting Zoom webinars set up as well.

We are incredibly excited about our lineup of artists, writers, and scholars, whose work all differently complement concepts and themes relevant to our ongoing study of “Nazar” as an object and optic. We are also thrilled to be able to host workshops with some of our speakers, which will be open to participants with a limited number of spots available.

Thursday 12 February
Morehshin Allahyari
“On Queer Mythmaking and Speculation”
(Workshop on Friday 13 February)

Thursday 19 February
Anjali Nath
Book Talk: /A Thousand Paper Cuts: US Empire and the Bureaucratic Life of War/

Friday 20 February
Esmat Elhalaby
Book Talk: /Parting Gifts of Empire: Palestine and India at the Dawn of Decolonization/

Thursday 12 March
Salar Mameni
“Angel of Critique”
(Workshop on Friday 13 March)

Thursday 26 March
Zoé Samudzi
“The Citizen and the Anthropophage: The Cannibal Boom and Postcolonial Amnesias”
(Workshop Friday 27 March)