To view the full programme please visit the Tate website. 

The symposium brings together the practices of artists and academics working with communities in resisting erasure and challenging entrenched systems of power. We will explore the building of support networks and grassroot institutions, use of feminist methodologies, memory work and counter-archiving practices, and the preservation and transmission of embodied knowledge across generations.

Highlights include:

Fri 6 Nov at 10am
Workshop: Building Transnational Feminist Networks with Alessia Cargnelli. 

Sat 7 Nov at 10.45am.
Talk: Institution Building with The Question of Funding (Yazan Khalili and Lara Khaldi), Sakiya (Sahar Qawasmi and Nida Sinnokrot) and Dar Jacir for Art and Research (Emily Jacir). Followed by a discussion chaired by Tirdad Zolghadr, Curator of Academic Engagement, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, and an audience Q&A.

Sat 7 Nov at 1pm
Intervention: Body as a Site of Resistance with Sandra Johnston and Alastair McLennan. Followed by a discussion chaired by Johanne Mullan, Curator of Collections, IMMA, and an audience Q&A.

Sat 7 Nov at 3pm
Keynote & Discussion: Zeina Maasri and Bernadette Devlin. Followed by a discussion moderated by Sheena Barrett, Head of Research and Learning, IMMA, and an audience Q and A.

Sat 7 Nov at 4.45pm
Screening & Discussion: Recording History with Dr. Isobel Harbison. 

To learn more about the full programme of workshops, talks and Q&As – visit the Tate website here

The symposium includes an online Transnational Resistances Study Group: 18 Sept – 16 Nov 2026. See more details here.

Participants: Comprise distinguished practitioners and thinkers working across contemporary art, performance, visual culture, political activism and critical scholarship. The programme features contributions from artists Alastair MacLennan, Alessia Cargnelli, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Dima Srouji, Hajra Waheed, Sandra Johnston and yasmine habib; activist Bernadette Devlin McAliskey; scholars Fionna Barber, Isobel Harbison, Marsha Meskimmon, Nadine Atallah and Zeina Maasri and Nathan O’Donnell; and representatives of Dar Yusuf Nasri Jacir for Art and Research, Sakiya, The Question of Funding and IMMA (Sheena Barrett: Head of Research;  Johanne Mullan: Curator, Collections) and others.

Convenors: Convened by programming teams from Tate Modern, IMMA and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, the programme reflects a broad range of curatorial research and public engagement expertise.

29 October – 11 November 2026

In parallel with the exhibition Eltiqa: How to Work Together? and to coincide with the symposium Transnational Resistances at Tate Modern, a selection of film and moving image works, guest curated by The Question of Funding, will be screened on Living Canvas at IMMA, Europe’s largest digital outdoor art screen on the grounds of IMMA. Featuring Basma Al Sharif’s We Began by Measuring Distance (2009), Oraib Toukan’s When Things Occur (2016) and Rosalind Nashashibi’s Electrical Gaza (2015), this film programme focuses on the impossibility of representing Gaza.

Living Canvas at IMMA runs daily from Monday to Sunday from 9.30am to 6.30pm. Further details here.