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…
On 16 August 2023, Berlin’s daily Tagesspiegel published an article by Nadia von Maltzahn on the reopening of the Sursock Museum. You can find the full article here, or read the print version below. Please note that the last image...
On 14 July 2023, Nadia von Maltzahn was interviewed by Maya Nassar on Lebanon’s Virgin Radio Stars. Listen to the conversation in two parts:
A public talk by Ashraf Osman, Pierre France and Nadia von Maltzahn in collaboration with the Sursock Museum The talk Chronologies and the Question of Periodization departs from the exhibition Beyond Ruptures, a Tentative Chronology which takes the for…
Decentering art and design history: research, practice, education University of Nicosia, 15-17 June 2023 The conference considers the development of art and design history in the Mediterranean region during the twentieth century. It focuses on how…
LAWHA International Conference Beirut/Lebanon, 3-4 June 2024 (Part I) Berlin/Germany, 25 June 2024 (Part II) What makes a place …
Das Blog bietet eine #KleineEdition der Dokumente aus der Sprachen- und Dialekterhebung, die zwischen 1806 und 1812 in Frankreich durchgeführt wurde. Die als Enquête Coquebert de Montbret bekannte Untersuchung hat eine große Anzahl an...
Nadia von Maltzahn. “Dear Tutu: a letter by Palestinian artist Vladimir Tamarion exile, friendship and globalisation”. static: thoughts and research from global dis:connect, Vol. 2, No. 1, May 2023ISSN: 2751-1626. In this article in the spe…
Thursday, 25 May 2023, 10am-12noon Orient-Institut Beirut, Library (Directions) LAWHA/OIB in collaboration with the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the Global (De)Centre is happy to invite you to join us for a public panel discussion on “Curati…
Workshop 10 May 2023 at the Paul Mellon Centre, London Full details here. For those interested in art’s intellectual histories, the archive offers a multitude of possibilities – especially those archives that hold the papers of art historians and criti…
Nadia von Maltzahn is participating in a symposium entitled “Abiding Present: Challenging Time in Art History” organised by the Warburg Institute in London. You can find the programme below as taken from the Warburg Institute website: Where…
In the workshop “Contested (in)visibilities and memorial cultures: Towards a critical reading of cultural heritage and conflict” at the Orient-Institut Beirut, on 15 March 2023, we will explore memorial cultures and consider critical readings of herita…
Spaces and Places – Art Exhibitions in Lebanon (1940s-1990s) (Re)assessing the Role of Cultural Clubs and Foreign Cultural Centres Organiser: LAWHA/Orient-Institut Beirut Location: Beirut and Tripoli/Lebanon Date: 13-14 September 2023 Art ex…
FEBRUARY 23–24, 2023 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT, IFI AUDITORIUM (BASILE ANTOINE MEGUERDICHE CONFERENCE HALL) In homage to Etel Adnan (1925–2021), this symposium brings together academic research with personal testimonies and cultural practices to ex…
Agarwal, Yamini (2022). The Making of Sikh Student: Ethnographic Study of a Minority School in Delhi. In British Journal of Religious Education, Vol. 45, Issue 1, 69-81, 2023, DoI.org/10.1080/01416200.2022.2092069. Published online on June 22, 2022. Ag…
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