Lives as Art, Art as Resistance: A discussion with Shahd Wadi and Laura Junka-Aikio on the Night of Science
How does the voice of Palestinian women artists resist Israeli occupation and patriarchal hierarchies? How does the telling of life stories become art and an act of resistance?
In an interview with Professor Laura Junka-Aikio, Palestinian researcher, writer, and curator Shahd Wadi, PhD, discusses the intertwining of art, feminism, and resistance in exile. Join us for a discussion on the Night of Science!
📅 Thursday, January 9, 2025 at 19.00–20.30
đź“Ť Tekstin Talo, Permantosali (Lintulahdenkatu 3, Helsinki) & live-streaming on YouTube on the page of @tekstintalo
The speakers
✨ Shahd Wadi @shahdwadi is Palestinian among other possibilities, but freedom is mostly Palestinian. She tries to find freedom in what she does, travelling between writing, curation, research, translation, performance and art consultancy. She sought her resistance through her PhD thesis in Feminist Studies at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. Her doctoral thesis has been published as a book entitled “Bodies in a Bundle: Artistic-Life-Stories of Palestinian Women in Exile” (2017).
✨ Laura Junka-Aikio @junkaaikio is a Politics and Cultural Studies scholar and Professor of Northern Politics and Government at the University of Lapland. She has studied Nordic colonialism in Sámi lands as well as the politics and representation of the second Palestinian intifada.
