Fourth annual conference
November 8–9, 2022
Said Khoury Building for Development Studies
Conference Hall 104
Birzeit
In fulfilment of its 2019–2023 programme strategy, the Palestinian Museum (PM) launched its first research programme. It includes a public programme of book launches, literary events, symposia, panel discussions, podcasts, workshops, tours, film screenings, an annual exhibition-related conference, and original publications documenting the PM’s discursive and scholarly outputs.
The research programme aims at driving civic and intellectual engagement, producing and disseminating knowledge about Palestine, and filling knowledge gaps about Palestinian history and culture.
The Palestinian Museum is honoured to invite you to attend its fourth annual conference, to be held from Tuesday to Wednesday, November 8–9 from 10am to 4pm at Birzeit University, Said Khoury Building for Development Studies, Conference Hall 104.
The conference will launch the research grants projects produced within the Museum’s research open call generously funded by Ghalia and Omar Qattan. The research encompassed four themes aiming to bridge knowledge gaps in Palestinian culture and deepen the themes of the Museum’s annual exhibitions. They are:
History of Art in Palestine and its Discourses from the Nineteenth Century until the 1990s
This strategic project involves the search for new methodologies and perspectives on the history of Palestinian art. The project reflects a widespread connection to the historiography of art in the context of Palestine and the Diaspora.
The Palestinian Coast: From the End of the Ottoman Period to the Present
This project deepens and strengthens qualitative research on the history of the Palestinian coast, focusing on its material, socioeconomic, political, and settler-colonial contexts. This research accompanies the current exhibition A People by the Sea: Narratives of the Palestinian Coast, September 19, 2021–May 31, 2023.
The History of Printing in Jerusalem
Accompanying the 2020–2021 exhibition: Printed in Jerusalem, Mustamloun, this project focused on the material, socioeconomic, and political contexts of this history.
New Perspectives on Contemporary Palestinian Culture
This project aims to deepen and strengthen critical qualitative research on contemporary Palestinian culture through a focus on its futurity and contemporary culture.
Participants
Rania Jawad; Kirsten Scheid; Ahmad Amara; Abbad Yahya; Nadi Abusaada; Jamal Nabulsi; Leila Abdelrazaq; Adey Almohsen; Ahmad Asaad, Clarissa Fonseca; Khai’laa’ Jumaa; Saleem Zoughbi; Faten Mitwasi; Laura Tibi; Sary Zananiri; and Olga Nefadova
