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The Moving Biographies Podcast The afikra عفكرة Channel
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This podcast series brings together different perspectives to question disciplinary assumptions and decenter life writing. It is a collaboration between LAWHA at the Orient-Institut Beirut, the American University of Beirut and the Global (De)Centre, generously funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
LAWHA (Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of artists and artworks in/from Lebanon since 1943) is a research project hosted by the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) of the Max Weber Foundation. It investigates the forces that have shaped the emergence of a professional field of art in Lebanon within its local, regional and global context. The project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 850760).
Moving Biography was a summer school organized by LAWHA/OIB, the American University of Beirut and the Global (De)Centre in 2022, generously funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. The summer school brought together different perspectives to question disciplinary assumptions and de-center life writing. These podcasts are an outcome of the summer school.
On Women By Women in Art
The Institute of Art in the Arab World (IAAW) at the Lebanese American University is dedicated to the advancement of contemporary and modern artistic production from the Arab world and its diaspora. Its mission is to promote interdisciplinary research on curatorial practices and artistic production that tackle social, economical and political issues. It aims to develop an archive of artistic activities that redefine the role of art within the Arab world, how it relates or does not relate to modernism as defined by the so-called western cannon, and how it operates within the historical circumstances and political discourses coalescing in and beyond the region in relation to political conflicts, pandemics, the environment, and other global issues. The IAAW also aims at establishing a dialogue between international scholars and the local community of scholars and artists through seminars, lecture series and other activities that trigger discussions at the intersection of art, post-colonial and gender studies in the aftermath of the Arab spring.
LAWHA (Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of artists and artworks in/from Lebanon since 1943) is a research project hosted by the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) of the Max Weber Foundation. It investigates the forces that have shaped the emergence of a professional field of art in Lebanon within its local, regional and global context. The project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 850760).
Moving Biography was a summer school organized by LAWHA/OIB, the American University of Beirut and the Global (De)Centre in 2022, generously funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. The summer school brought together different perspectives to question disciplinary assumptions and de-center life writing. These podcasts are an outcome of the summer school.
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Samar Mogharbel on Dorothy Salhab Kazemi | On Women By Women in Art
This episode is part of the “On Women By Women in Art” podcast series launched by the Institute of Art in the Arab World in collaboration with LAWHA at the Orient-Institut Beirut and the Moving-Biography-Summer-School funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
Episode 1: Samar Mogharbel on Dorothy Salhab Kazemi
Episode 2: Greta Naufal on Yvette Achkar
Episode 3: Afaf Zurayk on Helen Khal
Episode 4: Samia Halaby on Mona Saudi
The discussions are moderated by Dr. Yasmine Nachabe Taan, Director of the Institute of Art in the Arab World at the Lebanese American University.
Musical Composition: Mike Massy & Yal Solan -
Curating an artist’s (and parent’s) biography | Moving Biographies
This is a Moving Biography podcast, bringing together different perspectives to question disciplinary assumptions and decentre life writing. It is a collaboration between LAWHA at the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB), the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the Global (De)Centre, generously funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
In this episode with Mahita El Bacha Urieta, Manuella Guiragossian and Hala Schoukair, the daughters of Amine El Bacha (1932-2019), Paul Guiragossian (1926-1993) and Saloua Raouda Choucair (1916-2017) - leading artists of Lebanon’s art world - talk about the responsibility of taking care of their parent’s legacy, what challenges they face and what it means to curate a biography that is intrinsically linked to their own. They are in conversation with Nadia von Maltzahn (LAWHA/OIB). This episode is an edited version of a live conversation that took place at the OIB in May 2023. -
Greta Naufal on Yvette Achkar | On Women By Women in Art
This episode is part of the “Women on Women in Art” podcast series launched by the Institute of Art in the Arab World
in collaboration with LAWHA at the Orient-Institut Beirut,
and the Moving-Biography-Summer-School funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
Episode 1: Samar Mogharbel on Dorothy Salhab Kazemi
Episode 2: Greta Naufal on Yvette Achkar
Episode 3: Afaf Zurayk on Helen Khal
Episode 4: Samia Halaby on Mona Saudi
The discussions are moderated by Dr. Yasmine Nachabe Taan,
Director of the Institute of Art in the Arab World at the Lebanese American University.
Musical Composition: Mike Massy & Yal Solan -
Vulnerability and the Capacity for Life: Biography as a Material Matter | Moving
This is a Moving Biography podcast, bringing together different perspectives to question disciplinary assumptions and decentre life writing. It is a collaboration between LAWHA at the Orient-Institut Beirut, the American University of Beirut and the Global (De)Centre, generously funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
In this episode, Kirsten Scheid (Professor of Art and Anthropology, AUB) talks to Daniel Schönpflug (Historian, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin) and Yvonne Albers (Freie Universität Berlin) to think about biography as a material matter. -
Afaf Zurayk on Helen Khal | On Women By Women in Art
This episode is part of the “Women on Women in Art” podcast series launched by the Institute of Art in the Arab World
in collaboration with LAWHA at the Orient-Institut Beirut,
and the Moving-Biography-Summer-School funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
Episode 1: Samar Mogharbel on Dorothy Salhab Kazemi
Episode 2: Greta Naufal on Yvette Achkar
Episode 3: Afaf Zurayk on Helen Khal
Episode 4: Samia Halaby on Mona Saudi
The discussions are moderated by Dr. Yasmine Nachabe Taan,
Director of the Institute of Art in the Arab World at the Lebanese American University.
Musical Composition: Mike Massy & Yal Solan -
Evelyne Bustros (1878-1971): Patron of the Arts and Crafts | Moving Biographies
This is a Moving Biography podcast, bringing together different perspectives to question disciplinary assumptions and decentre life writing. It is a collaboration between LAWHA at the Orient-Institut Beirut, the American University of Beirut and the Global (De)Centre, generously funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
In this episode, Sonja Mejcher-Atassi (Professor of Modern Arabic and Comparative Literature, AUB) talks to Sarah Sabban (PhD Candidate in History, AUB) about her doctoral research on the life of Evelyne Bustros (1878-1971) and how it was entwined with the formation of Lebanese heritage and early nation-building in Lebanon.