Kategorie: Orient-Institut Beirut
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 Surs…
Contemporary Innovations in Arab Biography: A Conversation Second Keynote Event in the run-up to the Moving Biography Summer School Thursday, 21 April 2022, 4-6pm Beirut time (GMT+3) American University of Beirut, IFI Auditorium In this conversation mo…
The Biographical Tradition in pre-Modern Arabic Literature First Keynote Event in the run-up to the Moving Biography Summer School Orient-Instut Beirut Wednesday, 30 March 2022, 6-7.30pm Beirut time (GMT+3) This is an attempt to examine in the broadest…
Pierre France The international workshop “Alles ist Data? Tout est Data!” took place as an in-person conference with online invitation-only attendance, the first of its kind since the COVID-19 era started at the Institut….
The Orient Institut Beirut has officially joined the EGYCLASS project as a core institution. The main objective of this project – led by CNRS researcher Marie Vannetzel – is to set up an interdisciplinary…
Mustafa Emir Küçük People have used green spaces for recreational purposes throughout history, yet the concept of the park as a designed green space for people’s recreation in the middle of the city developed…
Ayşe Nur Akdal Today, one can find it bizarre to come across a rural element in cities. However, historically, there was not a clear distinction between urban and rural. Agricultural and urban space existed…
Georgios C. Liakopoulos The first extant Ottoman taxation cadastre of the Morea TT10-1/14662, dated 1460-63, divides the recorded settlements into Greek and Albanian on the basis of different rates of taxation, which favoured the latter ethnic…
Life trajectories are at the centre of LAWHA’s research project. Artists’ biographies are an important indicator of the socio-political currents, influences and values of their time and place, and show the entanglement and flow of networks….
Monique Bellan and Nadia von Maltzahn will present LAWHA’s database in a short lightening talk at the Culture Community Plenary (CCP) of NFDI4Culture on 19 November 2021 from 10:15 to 11:15 am (GMT+2). NFDI4Culture (Consortium for Research Data o…
Graham Auman Pitts Capitalism had it seasons in late-Ottoman Mount Lebanon. Each spring, the families that tilled orchards of mulberries purchased the eggs they needed on credit. Mulberry leaves nourished the eggs, which hatched…
Monique Bellan took part in the Digital Art History Summer School 2021 / DAHSS21 from 30 August to 4 September 2021, organized by the University of Málaga and the University of California, Berkeley. For this year’s...
We are excited to welcome Flavia Malusardi as a PhD candidate in History of Art as part of the LAWHA team, with an international position between Università Cà Foscari (Venice) and OIB Orient Institut...
Benan Grams On June 30th, 1903 Sultan Abdulhamid II approved a project to bring potable water to Damascus from the Ein el-Fijeh spring.1 The project was presented to the central government by Nazim Pasha,…
Lesen, Schreiben und Publizieren sind die Essenz von „Geisteswissenschaften als Beruf“. In der Rubrik readme.txt stellen wir die Publikationen der Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler der Max Weber Stiftung vor. Vier kurze Fragen und Antworten machen…
Nükhet Varlık Plague is an infectious disease caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis. It is known to have affected human societies for at least the last five thousand years. During its long history, it…
Neighbourliness is a concept which refers to the most contingent and yet least evitable phenomenon of all social relationships: neighbourly relations. As space of enforced closeness the neighbourhood can be considered a microcosm epitomising…