Seasons of Return speaks of repeated journeys back to South Lebanon—journeys since halted by the ongoing Israeli occupation and destruction of over fifty villages.

Artist and architect Batoul Faour will reflect on this rupture through the question of time, considering how occupation fractures temporal experience, producing parallel presents: one in which the South remains inaccessible yet insistently lived through memory, anticipation and political imagination, and another in which life continues elsewhere while destruction and erasure persist across the occupied landscape.

Return is understood not as a moment of arrival, but as an ongoing negotiation with and against these forces, inherited across generations. Situating this condition within a longer history of repeated imperial intervention, the lecture performance traces how successive regimes of violence have inscribed power onto land, infrastructure and everyday life. Yet it also asks how seasonal rhythms, agricultural cycles and collective practices of care continue to shape relationships to place, even in its absence.