4th Annual David Graeber Memorial Lecture

Co-sponsored by CIIS' Anthropology and Social department, the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, the University of Rojava, the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, the Élisabeth Bruyère School of Social Innovation at St. Paul University, and the Department of Anthropology at London School of Economics.

Every year since 2021, our Annual David Graeber Memorial Lecture Series brings together David’s friends, collaborators, colleagues, and readers across international and disciplinary boundaries.

This year's lecture title is "Conditions of Life Calculated..." on the Gaza Genocide. The live session will be held on Zoom and no RSVP is required. Click here to join the lecture. 

Guest Speaker

Eyal Weizman is the Founder and Director of Forensic Architecture and professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where in 2005 he founded the Centre for Research Architecture. In 2007, with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, he established the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine.

He is the author of numerous books, including Hollow Land, The Least of all Possible Evils, Investigative Aesthetics, The Roundabout Revolutions, The Conflict Shoreline, FORENSIS, and Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability.

Eyal has held positions in universities worldwide including Princeton, ETH Zurich and the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. He is a member of the Technology Advisory Board of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and is on the board of directors of the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ).

In 2019, he was elected life fellow of the British Academy. In 2020, he received an MBE for ‘services to architecture’. He was the recipient of the London Design Award (2021) and the Mark Cousins Theory Award (2024). Forensic Architecture is the recipient of a Peabody Award for interactive media, the European Cultural Foundation Award for Culture, and the RIBA Charles Jencks Award.