Once a year the Max Weber Stiftung (MWS) confers Gerald D. Feldman Travel Grants to internationally oriented researchers in the humanities and social sciences who are in the qualification phase. To the online application The scientists conduct a self-c…
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 cul…
The conference on »Harmful Entanglements« aims to answer to the unacknowledged conditions of entanglement’s conceptual ubiquity, or, with other words, its own ‘entanglement’ in a particular political context. Arguably, the study of and the various appr…
Conference organized by the Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan Chair for Arabic and Islamic Studies and the Department of Fine Arts and Art History (FAAH) at the American University of Beirut Beirut, 11 May 2024, AUB College Hall B1 Conference..…
Osman, Ashraf. ‘The Rise of the Sursock Museum: The Power of the Image to Create an Image of Power’. A Driving Force. On the Rhetoric of Images and Power, 22 December 2023. https://doi.org/10.30687/978-88-6969-771-5/017. Find Ashraf Osman’s artic…
A workshop on ‘Electoral Innovations at the Local Level’ was organised by the Centre de Sciences Humaines (CSH Delhi) and MWF Delhi on 19 January 2024 in New Delhi.
In-Person, Wednesday 14 February, 16:30-18:00, Hilton Chicago – Lower Level – Salon C-1 Affiliated Society or Committee Name: Association of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran and Turkey Chair: Nadia von Maltzahn This …
AWARE Archives of Women Artists Research & Exhibitions published an entry on Yvette Achkar in late 2023, written by Nadia von Maltzahn: https://awarewomenartists.com/en/artiste/yvette-achkar/ Thank you to everyone who has shared information on Yvet…
Labour history has long been framed through the ‘free/unfree’ divide. Moreover, slavery as well as wage labour, indentured work and convict labour, as well as other labour relations, have traditionally been studied in isolation from each other. In the …
Are the Eurosceptics taking over? Historical perspectives and future challenges facing the EU 27th November, 2023 – DHI Rome/Online The European Parliament elections are fast approaching, and for many, the future of Europe itself...
Diana Jeha has joined the LAWHA team as a research assistant in October 2023. Diana is a Lebanese visual artist and art historian, holding a PhD in History of Art from the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik/Lebanon and a masters degree...
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 thi…
Paula Schnabel was an intern at MWF from August to September 2023. She has completed a BA in history and area studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. During her undergraduate studies she became interested into Indian culture and society and began le…
LAWHA is excited to share with you the launch of two podcast series coming out of the Moving Biography Summer School. Moving Biography was a summer school organised by LAWHA/OIB, the American University of Beirut and the Global (De)Centre in..&…
This workshop aims at examining the role of cultural clubs and centres in promoting visual arts in Lebanon. Among the first cultural clubs in Lebanon was the Cultural Ligue in Tripoli (est. in 1943), followed by the Arab Cultural Club in Beirut.…
We are looking for a research assistant to assist LAWHA’s research team in preparing the Database and Digital Platform for publication, including digitisation and organisation of archival material, and data entry revolving around the trajectories…
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