Past activities - 2023

Screening and discussion – Sci-Fi Trilogy by Larissa Sansour – presented by Joan Grandjean

Exhibition – Beyond the Last Horizon – Charlotte Bank and Salah Saouli

Call for Papers – Glass in the Islamic World – 19th Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology

Publication – “DIS-GCC : une « constellation réticulaire » sur la voûte céleste de l’art contemporain” – Joan Grandjean

Workshop – Artistic Realism and Social Abstraction – Sami Khatib

Call for Applications – Ernst Herzfeld Award for Master Theses in Islamic Art History and Archaeology

Lecture – Les collections d’art moderne du Moyen-Orient à l’ONU : le cas de l’Irak dans les années 1970 – Silvia Naef

Lecture – Le catalogue d’exposition : une fenêtre sur la création artistique irakienne parmi d'autres – Zouina Ait Slimani

Roundtable – Islamic Art History and the Global Turn: Theory, Method, Practice – Negar Habibi

Interview – « Il faut inclure l’art arabe moderne dans l’enseignement de l’histoire de l’art » – Katia Yezli with Silvia Naef

Conference – Interiors Reconfigured: Changing Materiality and Craftsmanship in the Decorative Arts of the Middle East and North Africa, 18th–20th Centuries – Francine Giese, Sarah Keller and Mercedes Volait

Publication – Art and Activism in Iraqi Kurdistan: Feminist Fault Lines, Body Politics and the Struggle for Space – Isabel Käser and Houzan Mahmoud

Appointment – Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Preservation – Laura Hindelang

Lecture – De la fabrication du « primitivisme » dans les avant-gardes. Les réponses artistiques des marges – Nadia Radwan

Publication – Photographing Crude in the Desert: Sight and Sense among Oil Men – Laura Hindelang

Publication – Léon l'Africain, le retour : une conversation entre Mounir Ayache et Joan Grandjean

Workshop/Exhibition – The Tongue of the Desert – Saeedeh Setayesh and Johannes Thomann

Book Talk – Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings – Benoît Challand

Talk – Kultur und Widerstand am Beispiel Iran – Parastou Forouhar, Elika Palenzona-Djalili and Zarina Tadjbaeva

Publication – Two Safavid folios from musée des beaux-arts de Lyon – Negar Habibi

Publication – Teaching, E-learning, Agency and Mentoring – AWARE – Archives of Women Artists Research & Exhibitions

Publication – Abstraction and the Concealed Rhetorics of Resistance – Nadia Radwan

Lectures – "The Idea of Just Ruler in the Persianate World and Its Embodiment in Art and Material Culture" – Negar Habibi

Publication – Re-Orientations: Europe and Islamic Art from 1851 to Today – Sandra Gianfreda

EXHIBITION – Arbeits-Räume – Charlotte Bank and Salah Saouli

5th Congress on Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies – 10-13.7.23

Exhibition – Re-Orientations – Sandra Gianfreda

Colloquium – Studies in Indo-Persian Cultural Exchanges and the Pozzi Collection – Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva

Call for Applications – Post-doctoral research and teaching position – University of Bern

Lecture series – Actualité(s) de l’historiographie : conditions de production et situation – ARVIMM Team

Conversation – Y a-il un art moderne "arabe"? – Silvia Naef, Morad Montazami and Arthur Debsi

Roundtable – Cultural Appropriation / Appreciation? – organized by Manazir and moderated by Laura Hindelang

Conversation – In dialogue through the Ibrahim El-Salahi exhibition – Bärbel Küster and Daniel Baumann

Exhibition – Postponed Paradise – Charlotte Bank and Salah Saouli

Lecture – Ce que le catalogue d’exposition a fait à l’histoire de l’art irakien – Zouina Ait Slimani

Lecture – ‘For the Sake of the Image, or How to Make a Collection: A "Copy" of Ajaeb al-Makhluqat in Jean Pozzi's Collection’ – Negar Habibi

Lecture – Les mythes d’Orient. Architecture orientaliste en Europe – Leïla El Wakil

Publication – L’Orient avant l’Orientalisme : Jean-Étienne Liotard, Dame et sa servante au bain (1738-1742) – Silvia Naef

Publication – Challenging Orientalism: New Perspectives on Perception and Reception

Conversation – Manazir Journal and Arabpop at the ARVIMM Lecture series – EHESS/Zoom

Lecture – Splendeur de l'art persan à Genève: un patrimoine enfoui – Negar Habibi

Call for Applications – Post-doctoral research and teaching position available – University of Bern

Conversation – Nacer Khemir. Regards sur Paul Klee – Nadia Radwan

Publication – Paul Klee, islamische Kunst und arabische Moderne – Silvia Naef

Publication – Urban Cultures in the Gulf from a Historical Media Perspective – ed. by Bettina Gräf and Laura Hindelang

Exhibition – Fred Boissonnas and the Mediterranean. A photographic Odyssey – MOMus-Thessaloniki Museum of Photography

Publication – Almanach – SGMOIK/SSMOCI

Manazir Journal vol. 4 (2022) – Ce que l’art fait à la ville en Afrique du Nord et au Moyen-Orient – ed. by Marie Bonte & Marion Slitine

Lecture – Gulf Futurism – Joan Grandjean