Helene Kazan

Helene Kazan is a Senior Lecturer in Critical Theory at the School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University. Her interdisciplinary practice-led research intersects critical theory, decolonial studies, and international law with a focus on postcolonial architectures and digital archival practices.

• 2022 Graham Foundation Grant for Frame of Accountability
• 2018–2020 Vera List Center Fellow (The New School)
• 2022–2023 Artist-in-Residence at Westminster University's School of Law

Her artistic research examines:

• Colonial legacies in technological systems
• Materiality of digital evidence and memory
• Legal fiction as decolonial methodology
• Intersection of trauma, architecture, and international law

Key projects include:

• Frame of Accountability (2021–ongoing) - multimedia exploration of colonial violence in Lebanon/Syria
• Under Multiple Suns (2020) - documentary on WWII-era Lebanese trauma
• In Her View (2022) - feminist reclamation of colonial-era photographic testimony

She engages with:

• Digital authoritarianism and algorithmic censorship
• Evidentiary gaps in historical documentation
• Climate justice and structural violence