Ifor Duncan gives keynote at the Liquid, Solid & Gaseous: Remembering Through and with Water Conference at King’s College London

On June 25th, our Postdoc Ifor Duncan will provide a keynote entitled The Depositional Zone: Archive, Evidence and the Causal River for the Liquid, Solid & Gaseous: Remembering Through and with Water Conference at King’s College London organised by Elisabetta Visaggio & Josefina Vidal Miranda.

The talk will draw on practice-based research methods conducted by Duncan in contexts where rivers and political violence intersect. Duncan will explore water bodies as both sites of evidence and social and material archives. Here he draws on moving image, sound investigation, and interviews from situated research as well as with forensic scientists and sedimentologists to examine the sensorial and temporal space of rivers. By doing so, he seeks to develop an understanding of these water bodies as a hydrological continuum expanding above and below surface. Conceiving of rivers as dynamic political ecologies enables the tracing of interlapping fields of causality that produce and result from multiple forms of violence. This research works towards a practice-based methodology that counters the drive to produce and maintain impunity through rivers.