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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/the-sersal-project-digital-preserva
 tion-as-resistance-after-the-yezidi-genocide/
SUMMARY:The Sersal Project: Digital Preservation as Resistance After the Ye
 zidi Genocide
DESCRIPTION:PHILADELPHIA\, PA\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nAfter a genocidal campaign targ
 eted Yezidi culture\, the Sersal Project is digitally preserving what was 
 nearly lost. By safeguarding family photos\, recovering historical images 
 from around the world\, and documenting contemporary Yezidi life\, this in
 itiative is helping the community rebuild memory\, identity\, and hope.\n\
 nBios:\nMarc Marín Webb is a Ph.D. candidate in History and Archaeolog
 y in the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at the Univer
 sity of Pennsylvania. His research interests include post-conflict heritag
 e preservation in the MENA region\, the architecture and urbanism of Early
  Mesopotamia\, and the modern reception of ancient Near Eastern art. Befor
 e joining Penn\, Marc trained as an architect in Barcelona and Berlin an
 d contributed to the curation\, research\, and design of museum exhibition
 s in Europe and the United States. He has participated in archaeological a
 nd heritage preservation projects in Syria\, Iraq\, and the Kurdistan Regi
 on of Iraq. His doctoral dissertation examines the role of heritage preser
 vation in post-conflict reconstruction in Iraq\, focusing on the built her
 itage of the Yezidi community in former IS territories in Ninewa Governora
 te.\n\nNathaniel Brunt is an interdisciplinary scholar and documentary pho
 tographer whose work examines how armed conflict is represented through vi
 sual culture. He holds a PhD in Communication and Culture from Toronto Met
 ropolitan University and York University\, supported by the Pierre Elliott
  Trudeau Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Counci
 l. He is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Victoria Libraries and
  the Centre for Global Studies\, and a Hannah Arendt Fellow at TIB Hannove
 r. His internationally exhibited and published interdisciplinary work focu
 ses on photography\, archives\, and the visual histories of conflict and m
 ass violence in Kashmir and Iraq.\n\nhttps://mec.sas.upenn.edu/events/2026
 /04/23/sersal-project-digital-preservation-resistance-after-yezidi-genocid
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