This one day multi-disciplinary symposium will bring together scholars and students to address various topics related to slavery and liberation. The symposium also proffers new research approaches and methodologies.
Papers on the following general themes are currently being accepted:
Through various mechanisms of engagement with the public (research-creation workshops, symposia, training workshops, documentary projections, presentation of art-science works) this forum will question the writing practices through which researchers, teachers, but also other actors in society (artists, bloggers, journalists, editors, … Read more
The Orient-Institut Beirut is hosting a symposium on ‘Contextualising the Art Salon in the Arab Region‘ from 27-28 October 2017. The Call for Papers is open until 5 June 2017. Please find the full Call here.… Read more
Al-Hakawati is an Arabic Cultural Trust working similar to a public library. It includes titles on folktales, fairy tales and myths of the Arabic and Islamic Culture as well as biographies, artists and art, architecture, environment and religion.… Read more
The University of Zürich is holding a conference on ‘A l’Orientale – Collecting, Displaying and Appropriating Islamic Art and Architecture in the 19th and early 20th centuries‘ from 4-6 May 2017. The Programme will be added as soon … Read more
The Ancient India & Iran Trust is hosting a lecture on ‘Qajar nostalgia: Achaemenid and Sassanian themes in Qajar tilework and related themes‘ on 2 December 2016, 5:30pm.… Read more
The Gingko Library is holding the ‘The Mercantile Effect: On art and exchange in the Islamicate world during 17th – 18th centuries‘ conference from 18-19 November 2016 at the Courtauld Institute of Art. The programme will be … Read more