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Middle East Museums and Heritage: New Spaces, New Representations

Workshop on arts and heritage, and where they are now found.

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Tidspunkt

Onsdag 2. oktober 2024,  kl. 10:00 - 16:00

Sted

1451-515

Arrangør

Thomas Fibiger

10-11 New Spaces, New Representations

Sarina Wakefield (Lecturer, University of Leicester): “In Transit: Connecting Arts & Heritage in Gulf Airports”

11-13 Non state actors

Aisha al-Muftah (PhD fellow, University of Leicester): “Shifting Modes: The Contemporary Appeal of Orientalist Paintings Among Middle Eastern Collectors”.

Katrine Hedegaard Mandrup (PhD fellow, Aarhus University): ”Nas wa turath: Assembling an alternative heritage”

13-14 Lunch

14-16 Religion and Museums in the Middle East (+ final discussion)

Zeinab Abdelhamed (PhD fellow, University of Leicester): “Islamic Art Museums in and about the Middle East”

Thomas Fibiger (Associate Professor, University of Aarhus): “Religion-as-Civilization in Global Gulf Museums”

Workshop funded by the Danish Institute in Damascus.