LAWHA International Conference Orient-Institut Beirut, 3-5 June 2024 LAWHA’s international conference “Artistic Hubs in and of the Arab Region” starts from the perception that Beirut of the 1950s to 1970s is often referred to as the Arab capital of culture,...
Ashraf Osman is participating in the 5th Postgraduate International Conference “A Driving Force: On the Rhetoric of Images and Power” held at Cà Foscari University of Venice from 4 to 6 October 2023. Virtual participation is possible on this link:...
Decentering art and design history: research, practice, education University of Nicosia, 15-17 June 2023 The conference considers the development of art and design history in the Mediterranean region during the twentieth century. It focuses on how colonialism, postcolonialism, conflicting nationalist ideologies...
LAWHA International Conference Beirut/Lebanon, 3-4 June 2024 (Part I) Berlin/Germany, 25 June 2024 (Part II) What makes a place an artistic hub? Besides a certain extent of freedom of expression that allows ideas to coexist, flourish and materialize – and some degree...
FEBRUARY 23–24, 2023 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT, IFI AUDITORIUM (BASILE ANTOINE MEGUERDICHE CONFERENCE HALL) In homage to Etel Adnan (1925–2021), this symposium brings together academic research with personal testimonies and cultural practices to explore her life and work across countries, languages, and exiles. Born in Beirut to a Greek...
LAWHA has organised a panel at the forthcoming conference on the 1980s on 3-5 November 2022 at the University of North Texas, Denton. It is organised by the Office of the President and Department of Art History, University of North...
The LAWHA Team is participating with two interventions at the Deutscher Orientalistentag in Berlin this September PANEL: CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURES IN LEBANON’S ART WORLD When: Tuesday, 13 September, 9-11amWhere: FU Berlin, Rost-und Silberlaube, Room Bangkok (JK 27/106) Lebanon is regularly portrayed...
VISITING (IN)VISIBLE MUSEUMS Series of encountersApril 28th – 29th – 30th 2022 Sursock Museum, Beirut Curated by Mathilde Ayoub Invitation by Marie-Nour Hechaimé The cycle VISITING (IN)VISIBLE MUSEUMS organized at the Nicolas Sursock Museum takes as its starting point the ques- tion...
