Forging Collectivity: Belonging, Collaboration, and its Disconnects
2024 GCLR Graduate Student Conference
with Keynote Speaker: Dr. Meryem Kamil
"AIDS Memorial Quilt of the Names Project Foundation is displayed on the National Mall," 1987 (Photo: Names Project Foundation)
Professor Meryem Kamil, UC Irvine
Meryem Kamil is an assistant professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her research is concerned with how technology reinforces and undermines settler-colonialism in Palestine, engaging in fields including postcolonial studies, ethnic studies, cultural studies, and new media studies. She received her PhD in American Culture at the University of Michigan. Kamil is co-author of Technoprecarious (Goldsmiths Press, 2020) as part of the working collaborative Precarity Lab.