Past activities - 2022

 

Video – documenta + Jawad Selim im Deutschen Historischen Museum – Mirl Redmann
Lecture – How Two Arab Art Students Started an Artistic Revolution in London – Joan Grandjean
Lecture – Writing Art and Architectural Histories of the Arabian Peninsula: Transdisciplinary Approaches between Visual Culture and Oral History – Laura Hindelang
Lecture – Luxus kennt keine Grenzen: euro-persische Wechselwirkungen – Axel Langer
Lecture – “New York ↔ Koweït : pratiques en réseau entre la plateforme DIS et la délégation GCC” – Joan Grandjean
Call for Applications – Ernst Herzfeld Award for Master Theses in Islamic Art History and Archaeology
CFP – Interiors Reconfigured: Changing Materiality and Craftsmanship in the Decorative Arts of the Middle East and North Africa (18th-20th centuries) – Vitrocentre Romont
Lecture – Les débats sur l’abstraction dans les écrits d’artistes irakiens (1949-1971) – Zouina Ait Slimani
Publication – Women Artists from the Arab World: On the Discourse of Abstraction and Other Misconceptions – Nadia Radwan
Lecture replay – Image Flood and ‘iconoclasm’ in the Arab world (19th-20th c.) – Silvia Naef
Panel – De l’art abstrait à l’art contemporain : signes et gestes calligraphiques chez les artistes du Moyen-Orient et du Maghreb – Insaniyyat
Lecture – National Identity, Soft Power and Diplomacy - The Collections of Artefacts at the United Nations in Geneva – Silvia Naef
Lecture series – "Aes­t­he­tic Di­men­si­ons of the Po­li­ti­cal: Art, Ac­tivism, Par­ti­ci­pa­ti­on" – University of Kassel
Workshop – Going Global: New Challenges in the Field of Provenance Research – 15 September 2022
Publication – Manazir Journal #3 – edited by Sandra Gianfreda, Francine Giese, Axel Langer & Ariane Varela Braga
Call for applications – Assistant-Professor in World Art History – University of Bern
Publication - Le Gulf Futurism : un espace symbolique dans l’art contemporain mondialisé et du golfe Arabo-Persique - Joan Grandjean
Lecture – Aestheticing Turkish Nationalism: Islamic Imagery in the Landscape Paintings of the Ottoman Military Painter Hüseyįn Zekaį (1860-1919) – Ekin Akalin
Seminar — Abstraction, the Parisian environment and artists from the MENA region — ARVIMM
Roundtable – Irak, Égypte, terres créatives – Zouina Ait Slimani and Francesca Rondinelli
Roundtable – Et si... des 'futurismes arabes' en histoire de l'art ? – Joan Grandjean
Exhibition — "In the Name of the Image" — curated by Axel Langer at the Rietberg Museum
Lecture - Fifty Shades of Womanhood: Female representations in Safavid Isfahan - Negar Habibi
Lecture series – “Politics and the Visual in the Middle East and North Africa since the Arab Uprisings” Institute for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Societies (ISNO)
Lecture — Développement de l’imagerie territoriale par les peintres militaires ottomans : une étude sur la peinture de paysage au XIXème siècle — Ekin Akalin
Roundtable - Les cafés de l'histoire - Silvia Naef
Book Lunch & Symposium “The case of New Gourna by Hassan Fathy, Egypt” - Leïla El-Wakil
Publication – L'Islam des musées – Diletta Guidi
Lecture – “Unleashing the Arabesque. Middle Eastern Women Artists in the United States and Other Stories of Abstract Expressionism.” – Nadia Radwan
Lecture – “Image Flood and ‘iconoclasm’ in the Arab world (19th-20th c.)” – Silvia Naef
Lecture – “La ville de Genève et son trésor caché : Collection d'art persan au musée d'art et d'histoire” – Negar Habibi
Exhibition – "Reset" – curated by Charlotte Bank and Salah Saouli
Publication — Iridescent Kuwait — Laura Hindelang
Lecture replay – Mahmoud Moukhtar, Mohamed Naghi. Les Modernes d'Égypte. Trajectoires et réseaux transméditerranéens à Paris au début du XXe siècle – Nadia Radwan
Lecture – Mahmoud Moukhtar, Mohamed Naghi. Les Modernes d'Égypte. Trajectoires et réseaux transméditerranéens à Paris au début du XXe siècle – Nadia Radwan
Lecture — Le design et la mode persans en France du XXe siècle : Le catalogue de Jean Pozzi — Negar Habibi
Publication — Shâhnâmeh. Le Livre des Rois persans — Selected excerpts and preface by Negar Habibi