Past activities - 2025

 

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Screenings – Cinematic Counter-Archives of Palestine: Memory, Erasure, and Resistance – Unibas
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Exhibition – we refuse_d – curated by Nadia Radwan and Vasıf Kortun
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Lecture – Jawad Salim (1919-1961), « père de l’art moderne irakien » : supports et récits d’une construction – Zouina Ait Slimani
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SNSF Project – Stained Glass in Islamic Lands – Vitrocentre Romont
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Workshop – (Mutual) Exchanges: Ottoman and Islamic Architectural History and the West from 1500’s to 1923 – Ghent University
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Summer School – SMILE – University of Bern
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CfP – The Archive as Imperative: Methods and Approaches in the History of Art and Architecture in the Middle East and North Africa – Manazir
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CfP – Independent Algeria: Art, Architecture and Ideology in the Postcolony – University of Zurich
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CfP – Architectural Objects of Colonial Consumption – EAHN 2026 conference
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Publication – Les artistes du Maghreb et du Moyen-Orient,
l’art abstrait et Paris – Manazir Journal #6 (2024)
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Conversation – Fausses routes et chemins de traverse : les récits de l’histoire de l’art arabe – Zouina Ait Slimani and Joan Grandjean
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Conference – From Cypress to Platanus: Trees in the Persian Arts, Literature and Cultural Memory – University of Geneva
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Lecture – Entre Orient et Occident : Jamil Hamoudi, Louise Janin et la revue Ishtar – Zouina Ait Slimani and Marion Sergent
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Public Talk – Ceren Özpinar – HEAD Genève
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Lecture – Nouri al-Rawi (1925-2014) : articulation entre critique et institution muséale dans l’Irak du XXe siècle – Zouina Ait Slimani
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Workshop – Art moderne et contemporain arabe : reconstitutions et convergences historiographiques – Zouina Ait Slimani and Joan Grandjean
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Publication – Almanach #4 – SMEIC
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Publication – Les enjeux de la représentation de l'art moderne en Irak à travers les catalogues d'exposition (1941-1958) – Zouina Ait Slimani
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Lecture – L’art comme outil du soft power : dons des Etats de la région MENA aux organisations internationales – Silvia Naef and Joan Grandjean
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Lecture – La mosquée de Cordoue : un unicum architectural – Leïla El-Wakil
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Lecture – There was something about Black. L'autre histoire de Mona Hatoum dans le Londres des années 1980 – Joan Grandjean
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Exhibition tour and finissage – Arabofuturs – Élodie Bouffard and Joan Grandjean
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Lecture – Making Art for Whom? Urgency, Cancellation, and Loss – Nadia Radwan
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HES-SO – Leading House MENA – Continuation of the bilateral cooperation program (2025-2028)