AMCA’s inaugural double session at the 2007 Middle Eastern Studies Association Conference, Montreal Canada
Art Without History? Evaluating ‘Arab’ Art
Organized by Nada Shabout, Dina Ramadan & Sarah Rogers
Chair: Nada Shabout & Silvia Naef
Discussant: Shiva Balaghi
Sarah Rogers, MIT-Building a Market, Defining an Audience: Beirut’s Gallery System, 1960s & 1970s
Dina Ramadan, Columbia University-Visualizing the Nadha: Egyptian Artists’ Collectives and their Criticism during the Interwar Years
Anneka Lenssen, MIT-London’s Arab Renaissance c. 1975
Salwa Mikdadi, Independent Curator-Women and Institutionalization of Contemporary Art Practices in the Arab World
Katarzyna Pieprzak, Williams College-Art in the Streets: Modern Art, Museum Practice and the Urban Environment in Contemporary Morocco
Caecilia Pieri, Paris/Amman Ahlia University, Jordan-Modernity and its Post in Constructing an Arab Capital: Baghdad’s urban space, context and questions EHESS
Nadine Khalil, AUB-Lebanese Cultural Workers and Artists: Navigating the Arab Cultural Terrain in New York and Beirut