Moving Biographies 

THIS SERIES IS PART OF THE AFIKRA PODCAST NETWORK

This podcast series brings together different perspectives to question disciplinary assumptions and decenter life writing. It is a collaboration between LAWHA at the Orient-Institut Beirut, the American University of Beirut and the Global (De)Centre, generously funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. 

LAWHA (Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of artists and artworks in/from Lebanon since 1943) is a research project hosted by the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) of the Max Weber Foundation. It investigates the forces that have shaped the emergence of a professional field of art in Lebanon within its local, regional and global context. The project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 850760).

Moving Biography was a summer school organized by LAWHA/OIB, the American University of Beirut and the Global (De)Centre in 2022, generously funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. The summer school brought together different perspectives to question disciplinary assumptions and de-center life writing. These podcasts are an outcome of the summer school.

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The Institute of Art in the Arab World (IAAW) at the Lebanese American University is dedicated to the advancement of contemporary and modern artistic production from the Arab world and its diaspora. Its mission is to promote interdisciplinary research on curatorial practices and artistic production that tackle social, economical and political issues. It aims to develop an archive of artistic activities that redefine the role of art within the Arab world, how it relates or does not relate to modernism as defined by the so-called western cannon, and how it operates within the historical circumstances and political discourses coalescing in and beyond the region in relation to political conflicts, pandemics, the environment, and other global issues. The IAAW also aims at establishing a dialogue between international scholars and the local community of scholars and artists through seminars, lecture series and other activities that trigger discussions at the intersection of art, post-colonial and gender studies in the aftermath of the Arab spring.

LAWHA (Lebanon’s Art World at Home and Abroad: Trajectories of artists and artworks in/from Lebanon since 1943) is a research project hosted by the Orient-Institut Beirut (OIB) of the Max Weber Foundation. It investigates the forces that have shaped the emergence of a professional field of art in Lebanon within its local, regional and global context. The project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 850760).

Moving Biography was a summer school organized by LAWHA/OIB, the American University of Beirut and the Global (De)Centre in 2022, generously funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. The summer school brought together different perspectives to question disciplinary assumptions and de-center life writing. These podcasts are an outcome of the summer school.