Why Are We Here Now?
2017, Sep 15 — Oct 7
How can the past be inscribed into the present not as a relict, but as lived experience “here and now”? Adania Shibli, Mohammad Al Attar, and Rabih Mroué investigate key discourses that have underlined political, social and cultural transformations over the past century in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean.
Ahmad Beydoun: Discursive Management of a Paralyzed System: Communitarianism in Lebanon
Introduction: Rabih Mroué In English Non-academic lecture, Oct 6, 2017
Ahmad Beydoun: Discursive Management of a Paralyzed System: Communitarianism in Lebanon (French)
French original version Non-academic lecture, Oct 6, 2017
Ahmad Beydoun: Discursive Management of a Paralyzed System: Communitarianism in Lebanon
English translation Non-academic lecture, Oct 6, 2017
Ahmad Beydoun: Discursive Management of a Paralyzed System: Communitarianism in Lebanon (German)
German translation Non-academic lecture, Oct 6, 2017
Katrin Klingan: How Close Could We Get to the Light and Survive? (German)
Introduction, Oct 6, 2017 German translation
Katrin Klingan: How Close Could We Get to the Light and Survive?
Introduction, Oct 6, 2017 Original version
Rabih Mroué: How Close Could We Get to the Light and Survive? (German)
Introduction, Oct 6, 2017 German translation
Rabih Mroué: How Close Could We Get to the Light and Survive?
Introduction, Oct 6, 2017 Original version
How Close Could We Get to the Light and Survive?
Non-academic lectures Oct 6 & 7, 2017
Aleppo. A Portrait of Absence
Performance Sep 21-23, 2017
Boris Buden: From Orient to Archaeology: A Railway through Time
Lecture, Sep 16, 2017 Original version
Zeynep Çelik: Railways and Politics of Archaeology
Presentation, Sep 16, 2017 Original version
Yazid Anani: an imaginary train ride, 1926
Lecture, Sep 16, 2017 Original version
Fehras Publishing Practices: Waiting Trajectory
Lecture, Oct 16, 2017 Original version
Morad Montazami: Railway Stories of the Betrayed Avant-Garde
Lecture, Sep 16, 2017 Original version
Hamid Ismailov: From the Railway to the www. (Englisch)
Lecture, 16.9.2017 Original version
Roundtable: Unsmooth, Broken Flows of Travels
Roundtable disucssion, Sep 16, 2017 Original version
Shahana Rajani & Zahra Malkani: Afterlives of Imperial Formations (Englisch)
Scenic reading Original version
Gülnur Ekşi: The Effects of the Berlin-Baghdad Railway on the Vegetation in Anatolia
Lecture, Sep 16, 2017 Original version
Roundtable: Between the Lines
Roundtable discussion, Sep 16, 2017 Original version