Technologies and Replicas as Archives of Histories: When Egypt\u2019s Pasts Meet Its Present<\/p>\n\n\n\n
My research explores decolonizing imaginations that extend beyond discourses of repatriation and the return of original artifacts. I focus on the Egyptian artifact replica production\u2019s role in preserving and remaking histories. I aim to understand how manual and automated technologies reproduce historical knowledge. I<\/em> focus on manual reproduction, 3D printing, scanning, and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to explore how craftworkers\u2019 replication process remakes relationships and narratives about Egyptian histories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I worked in urban and labor activism in the afterlife of the January 2011 Egyptian revolution. As a result of that experience, I saw replica production as a response to the closure of public spaces. The production processes of Egyptian replicated artifacts are acts of reclaiming historical artifacts that the global North is looting. I did my preliminary dissertation work in the summers of 2022 and 2023. This involved working with traditional craftworkers and artists who make heritage-inspired replicas that reproduce and reinterpret Egyptian histories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ll continue my project in my 18-month dissertation fieldwork in 2024-2025, and continue working with craftworkers and artists I engaged with during my preliminary research. \u00a0I will build on my preliminary summer research to investigate how technological processes influence historical narratives, worker-machine interactions, and the reproduction of scientific-historical knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Technologies and Replicas as Archives of Histories: When Egypt\u2019s Pasts Meet Its Present How did you come to this work? My research explores decolonizing imaginations that extend beyond discourses of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":985,"template":"","profiletype":[87],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":984,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/982\/revisions\/984"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"profiletype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/msh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profiletype?post=982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What resonated with you as you conducted your research?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Do you plan on continuing this work? If so, in what way?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n