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A BIAA-CBRL Joint Online Lecture by Ceren Özpınar (University of Brighton), Charlotte Bank (University of Geneva), and Tina Sherwell (Birzeit University) with Chair: Toufic Haddad (CBRL).
This lecture, co-hosted by the British Institute at Ankara and the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), will showcase the latest debates and scholarship on modern and contemporary feminist art practices and histories from the Middle East and Turkey.
Our panellists will share their perspectives on feminist art in Turkey, Syria and Palestine. Dr Ceren Özpınar will examine how the history of feminist art in Turkey has been commonly told and why that should be challenged; Dr Charlotte Bank will discuss feminist approaches in works by Syrian women artists and how they have been a vehicle for social change; Dr Tina Sherwell will highlight the work of Palestinian women artists. The webinar will be chaired by Toufic Haddad, Director of CBRL’s Kenyon Institute in Jerusalem.
Find out more on our website: biaa.ac.uk/event/online-lecture-feminist-art-in-the-middle-east-and-turkey
A BIAA-CBRL Joint Online Lecture by Ceren Özpınar (University of Brighton), Charlotte Bank (University of Geneva), and Tina Sherwell (Birzeit University) with Chair: Toufic Haddad (CBRL).
This lecture, co-hosted by the British Institute at Ankara and the Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL), will showcase the latest debates and scholarship on modern and contemporary feminist art practices and histories from the Middle East and Turkey.
Our panellists will share their perspectives on feminist art in Turkey, Syria and Palestine. Dr Ceren Özpınar will examine how the history of feminist art in Turkey has been commonly told and why that should be challenged; Dr Charlotte Bank will discuss feminist approaches in works by Syrian women artists and how they have been a vehicle for social change; Dr Tina Sherwell will highlight the work of Palestinian women artists. The webinar will be chaired by Toufic Haddad, Director of CBRL’s Kenyon Institute in Jerusalem.
Find out more on our website: biaa.ac.uk/event/online-lecture-feminist-art-in-the-middle-east-and-turkey
