Paradise, interrupted: The archive may not end
Revolutions fade, but their magic survives in music, memories, and fragments of a collective dream—this is a tale of witnessing...
Veronica Ferreri is the Principal Investigator of the MSCA project “Archivwar. Archives in Times of War” based at the Department of Humanities at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. Archivwar examines how Syrians engage in practices of care, reading, and preservation of their legal archives across Syria and Germany. This research explores archives’ entanglement with kinship ties, ethnonationalism, patriarchy, political violence and construction of the self. She was recently a Visiting International Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities in Essen, where she is completing her monograph, The Aftermath of War: Survival and Displacement across Syria and Lebanon. Her work has appeared in History and Anthropology, Citizenship Studies, Society & Conflict, HKW Berlin and AllegraLab.
Revolutions fade, but their magic survives in music, memories, and fragments of a collective dream—this is a tale of witnessing...
Writing and archiving are emotional and political acts—a refusal to surrender memory to silence, transforming history into a living tapestry...