Community Archives: Collecting and Preserving Histories

Speaker: Saadia Gacem (online) from Archives des luttes des femmes en Algérie
Date: May 23rd, 18:30-20:00
Location: VBKÖ Archive (Maysedergasse 28/2, 4th floor)

 

 

Archives des luttes des femmes en Algérie (Archives of Women’s Struggles in Algeria) is an independent project founded in 2019, by researcher Awel Haouati, whose aim is to build a contributory digital archive of documents produced by Algerian women, feminists and women rights groups, collectives and associations.

 

Saadia Gacem is a PhD candidate in anthropology at Aix-Marseille University. Her research focuses on the judicial treatment of domestic violence cases in courts in Algiers. In 2019, she directed her first documentary film, Felfel Lahmar (“Red Pepper”). Saadia is a feminist activist with a strong interest in the history of feminism and the trajectories of women activists in Algeria. She co-founded the feminist magazine La Place with Maya Ouabadi and co-directs the Archives of Women’s Struggles in Algeria project with Awel Haouati.