2012/05 Dina Khoury: Archives and Empire: The Iraq Memory Foundation and the Struggle for Memory

Video of the seminar "Critique of the Social Sciences" at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University. Dina Khoury, professor of history and international relations at George Washington University, talks about the Iraq Memory Foundation and the declassification of the Ba'ath Party archives. The key topic of the talk is the problem of institutional organization of the archives. Does a post-tyranny Archive need to be run by a government or rather by a private non-governmental organization?