Syrian Cassette Archives
Date: Thu Jun 25 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) at 14:00 - 16:00
Location: S1, First floor, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DP
An event by the Studies in Arts, Migration and Aurality (SAMA) Research Network. About this event SCA presents a lecture-performance drawing on a selection of recordings from the archive as entry points into broader questions of memory, geography, and belonging. Moving between listening, storytelling, and archival inquiry, the session considers how sound carries traces of lived experience, revealing relationships between people, land, displacement, and shifting borders. Syrian Cassette Archives Syrian Cassette Archives is an independent research and archival initiative dedicated to preserving, sharing, and presenting sounds and stories from Syria’s abundant cassette era (1970s–2010). Founded in 2018 by researchers and producers Mark Gergis and Yamen Mekdad, the project explores cassette cu
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