CfA: 2 funded PhD positions available in LAWHA
LAWHA – Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of artists and artworks in/from Lebanon since 1943 What: 2 funded PhD positions as part of the International PhD Programme in the History of...
View ArticleThe Sociality of Theory
TRAFO – Blog for Transregional Research By Francesco Anselmetti Fadi A. Bardawil, Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020). A...
View ArticleThe Neoliberal Republic
Interview with Pierre France What question can the reader of your book answer after reading it? There are two questions. One could be framed as a response to a classic debate in comparative political...
View ArticleKein Projekt im Elfenbeinturm
[gab_log] Geisteswissenschaft als Beruf Dieser Beitrag erschien erstmalig in der aktuellen Ausgabe unseres Magazins „Weltweit vor Ort“ 01/21. Ein Workshop des Orient-Instituts Beirut im Rahmen des...
View Article“Violence, Be It Visible or Invisible, Shapes All of Our Lives”
Interview with Sarah El Bulbeisi How do you explain your current research projects to your students? I don’t teach at the moment, so currently, the people I have to explain my research to are mainly...
View ArticleVon Kairo nach Karl-Marx-Stadt: Studieren im Kalten Krieg
Eine Veranstaltungsreihe des Orient-Instituts Beirut (OIB), vom 11. bis 23. Juni sowie 11. Oktober bis 12. Oktober 2021 in Berlin, in Anknüpfung an das internationale Forschungsprojekt...
View ArticleConference report “Neighbourliness in Global Perspective”
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...
View ArticleNew Questions for Studying Plague in Ottoman History
Nükhet Varlık 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...
View Articlereadme.txt: „Tabu, Trauma und Identität: Subjektkonstruktionen von...
[gab_log] Geisteswissenschaft als Beruf Lesen, Schreiben und Publizieren sind die Essenz von „Geisteswissenschaften als Beruf“. In der Rubrik readme.txt stellen wir die Publikationen der...
View ArticleThe Fijeh Water Project and the Cholera Epidemic in 1903 Damascus
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...
View ArticleFlavia Malusardi has joined the LAWHA team
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...
View ArticleLAWHA at the Digital Art History Summer School 2021
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....
View ArticleSeasons of Capitalism: Human and Non-Human Nature in the Making of Lebanon’s...
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...
View ArticleLightning Talk at NFDI4Culture
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)....
View ArticleCfA Moving Biography Summer School
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...
View ArticleEthnicity and the Use of Natural Resources in the Early Ottoman Peloponnese
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...
View ArticleUrban Agriculture in Pre-Modern Istanbul
Figure 1: Map of Istanbul during the reign of the Sultan Abdulhamid II (1876-1909) | Source: Sultan II Abdülhamid Dönemi Harita ve Planlarında İstanbul Ayşe Nur Akdal Today, one can find it bizarre to...
View ArticleUrban Parks in Late Ottoman Istanbul
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...
View ArticleThe EGYCLASS Project
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...
View ArticleAlles ist Data? Tout est Data!
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...
View ArticleMoving Biography: First Keynote by Tarif Khalidi
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...
View ArticleMoving Biography: Second Keynote – Contemporary Innovations in Arab Biography
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...
View ArticleVisiting (In)visible Museums
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...
View ArticleNicht-Gewalt im Bürgerkrieg
Krieg und auch Bürgerkrieg sind meist mit Gewalt aussoziiert. Gewalt scheint das Merkmal von Kriegshandlungen zu sein. Doch auch in Zeiten des Krieges gibt es Handeln, das nicht von Gewalt...
View ArticleKunstgeschichtliche Forschungspraxis in globalen Kontexten
Peter Krieger, Zeynep Kuban, Nadia von Maltzahn and Burcu Dogramaci From the journal Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichtehttps://doi.org/10.1515/ZKG-2022-1002 Krieger, Peter, Kuban, Zeynep, Maltzahn, Nadia...
View ArticleMoving Biography Summer School
Moving Biography, a one-week international Summer School convened by LAWHA/Orient-Institut Beirut, the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the Global (De)Centre, took place in Beirut/Lebanon from 1...
View ArticleBook Review of Zeina Maasri: Cosmopolitan Radicalism
Nadia von Maltzahn: Rezension zu: Maasri, Zeina: Cosmopolitan Radicalism. The Visual Politics of Beirut’s Global Sixties. Cambridge 2020: ISBN 978-1-108-48771-9, In: H-Soz-Kult, 12.07.2022,...
View Article#MWSLieblingsorte: Das Sursock-Museum in Beirut
[gab_log] Geisteswissenschaft als Beruf In der Reihe #MWSLieblingsorte stellen die Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter der Institute der Max Weber Stiftung ihre ganz persönlichen Lieblingsorte vor. Durch...
View ArticlePolitics and music in the 20th and 21st centuries in Lebanon
Rosy Beyhom A public research seminar took place on the 15th of June 2022 in the main hall of Orient Institute Beirut and focused on music and politics. Rosy Beyhom, a visiting post-doctoral fellow...
View ArticleReckoning with God
Joud Alkorani By some recollections, the Arab Spring was characterized by God’s presence. “God is with us,” chanted some as they protested in the streets. “God is great,” proclaimed others as blood...
View ArticleNarrating religious change: Christianity in Ottoman Mardin and the Life of...
Title page of the Life of Eliya the Priest and what befell him (USJ 30 (18th c.?), ff. 1v-2r). Rosemary Maxton In around 1700 CE, in the town of Mardin (current-day southeast Turkey), a priest decided...
View ArticleLAWHA at DOT2022 in Berlin
The LAWHA Team is participating at the Deutscher Orientalistentag in Berlin this September, with two interventions. PANEL: CULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURES IN LEBANON’S ART WORLD When: Tuesday, 13 September,...
View ArticleTYPOLOGIES IN THE ISLAMIC ETHICAL DISCOURSE
Fatih Ermiş The Orient-Institut Beirut and the American University of Beirut jointly organized a workshop on “Typologies in the Islamic Ethical Discourse”. Various typologies from the pre-modern texts...
View Article1980s: Representational Pressures, Departures, and Beginnings
LAWHA has organised a panel at the forthcoming conference on the 1980s on 3-5 November 2022 at the University of North Texas, Denton. It is organised by the Office of the President and Department of...
View ArticleArchiving Absence and Loss: Amili Manuscripts in Libraries Worldwide
This is a digital image of an Amili manuscript that falls today under the custody of Süleymaniye Library: Muhadarāṭ al-Kafʻamī, aw, Hadīqat al-Nufūs wa Hijlat al-’Arūs. Süleymaniye Library, Oriental...
View ArticleEpisode 12: Auf den Spuren der libanesischen Kunstgeschichte
[gab_log] Geisteswissenschaft als Beruf Die nächste Station unserer akustischen Forschungsreise ist das Orient-Institut in Beirut. Dort forscht Nadia von Maltzahn zur Geschichte der libanesischen...
View ArticleMWS Podcast #12: Auf den Spuren der libanesischen Kunstgeschichte
In der zwölften Episode des „Wissen entgrenzen“-Podcasts der Max Weber Stiftung gibt Nadia von Maltzahn vom Orient-Institut in Beirut einen Einblick in ihr Forschungsprojekt „Lebanon’s Art World at...
View ArticleHow Dukhan made Doha. Urban history and the political economy of...
Sheikh Ali bin Abdullah Al Thani, emir of Qatar (r. 1949-1960) arriving at Umm Said to be condecorated with the Insignia of Knight Commander of the British Empire in 1954. His rule was characterized...
View ArticleThe Role of Domestic Courts for Consociational Systems of Power-Sharing
Judgment by the Court of Cassation (1972) Sophia Schröder Consociational settlements are often negotiated after violent conflict and various communities have to be accommodated. Cooperation between...
View ArticleContested (In)visibilities and Memorial Cultures
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...
View ArticleA History of Arts and Crafts from Late Ottoman Beirut (ca. 1860-1914)
Carpenters’ market (ṣūq al-najjārīn), Beirut, no date. (https://www.yabeyrouth.com/3095-سوق-النجارين) Sarah Sabban In the post 9/11 context, permanent and temporary exhibitions of “Islamic art” aimed...
View ArticleEpistemology of the “genesis of the Qur’an” between the 19th and 20th...
Sana Abu Antoun Sana Bou Antoun joined the OIB in 2022 for a duration of 12 months as an affiliated PhD student. She is a PhD Student in the Department of Arabic Studies at Sorbonne Université in...
View ArticleCurating an Artist’s (and Parent’s) Biography
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...
View ArticleDear Tutu: ephemera and artistic production
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...
View ArticleCfP: Artistic hubs in and of the Arab Region
LAWHA International Conference Beirut/Lebanon, 3-4 June 2024 (Part I) Berlin/Germany, 25 June 2024 (Part II) What makes a place an artistic hub? Besides a certain extent of freedom...
View ArticleTalk: Chronologies and the Question of Periodization
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...
View ArticleThe Making of Arab Alternative Cinema and its Audiences: Babelsberg, Beirut,...
في لايبزغ… كان كل شعب يعرض كفاحه ليتعلّم الآخرون [In Leipzig…People screen their struggles so others may learn] al-Akhbar, 15 December 1973, 32-33, Orient-Institut Beirut Library Anaïs Farine...
View ArticleA Driving Force: On the Rhetoric of Images and Power
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....
View ArticleDiana Jeha joins LAWHA
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...
View Articleفي مفهوم التضامن
بقلم يونس هانسن؛ راجَعَهُ لُغويًّا سومر المير محمود و براق زكاريا آب ٢٠٢٣، برلين «الجواب المختصر هو أنّ التضامن لا يعلُو على النقد… الولاء لمجموعة في صراعها من أجل البقاء لا يجوز أن يجُرَّ المثقّف إلى...
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