Liquid, Solid & Gaseous: Remembering Through and With Water

Where:- Inigo Rooms, Kings College London, Somerset House, East Wing, Lancaster Place, London, WC2R 2LS

When:- 10:00 – 18:00, Wednesday 24th June 2026 & 10:00 – 19:00, Thursday 25th June 2026

Liquid, Solid & Gaseous: Remembering Through and With Water is a conference funded by the LAHP Student- and Staff-led Activities Fund that brings together researchers, artists and practitioners to reflect on water and the act of remembrance. Featuring keynotes by Ifor Duncan and Anna Dot, alongside academic papers and creative works, the conference takes a hybrid format and will be held on 24–25 June 2026 at the Inigo Rooms, Somerset House, King’s College London.

Throughout history and particularly in recent times, political, bellicous and genocidal endeavours have striated bodies of water. In the initial stages of drafting this abstract, the Global Sumud Flotilla set sail toward Gaza. By ‘crafting water-based actions of solidarity’, it urged people around the globe to create meaningful ‘spaces of appearance’ (see Arendt, 1990) in the vicinity and with the aid of bodies of water (Global Sumud Flotilla via Instagram, 2025). Water is not only a space to be freed but also an essential actor taking part in its own liberation. This conference has been conceived to align with this watery political consciousness, action and solidarity. Through this lens, it will interrogate the dynamics of memory unfolding within water and at the junctures between its different physical states.

Sessions

– Wednessday 24th June: from 10 to 1 pm

– Wednessday 24th June: from 2 pm to 6 pm

– Thursday 25th June: from 10 to 1 pm

– Thursday 25th June: from 2 pm to 7 pm

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