AMCA

The Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran & Turkey is a network of scholars and organizations dedicated to this emerging field.

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CFP:
Symposium:
1980s: Representational Pressures, Departures, and Beginnings
Nov 3-5, 2022 ** in person **
University of North Texas, Denton, TX. Deadline for abstract submission April 10, 2022
Read more: https://t.co/4hkYslTq4x

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AMCA and otherwise- TT African Art position at Middlebury
https://t.co/wDLAxYKQHX

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The Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey (@AMCAorg) may sponsor a session at next year’s @caavisual annual conference, to be held in New York, February 15-18, 2023.
https://t.co/EmuhJ2tjEV

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Join LAWHA: 1 funded PhD position in History of Arts on Lebanon’s Art World @CCHT_CaFoscari
https://t.co/dKjs6V4S4c

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Call for Applications: Funded Graduate Student Workshop: “1980s: Representational Pressures, Departures, and Beginnings for the study of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey”: https://t.co/Aol28gB1hs

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"Join us as we interview Regent Pprofessor of Art History @NadaShabout on our Afikra Conversations series.

Date: Wednesday, April 20
Time: 12PM NYC | 5PM London | 7PM Beirut | 9PM Abu Dhabi
Hosted By: Mikey Muhanna (@afikra)"

https://t.co/v3qlU7BCkx

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New post "Safia Farhat’s Hybrid Creatures in Civic Spaces" by Jessica Gerschultz for MoMA's Notes On Art in a Global Context:
https://t.co/PUcPavUeMu

@MuseumModernArt @caavisual @Modernities @UnivOfKansas @KASCAFRICA @MESA_1966

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Bouabid Bouzaid Archive; Poster/brochure for the 1980 edition of the Spring Exhibitions, al-Faddān square, Tetouan, Ahmed Amrani Archive.

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The 2022 Rhonda A. Saad Prize for Best Paper in Modern & Contemporary Arab Art was awarded to Tina Barouti for her paper “Politicizing Art & Public Space in the Years of Lead, 1970s– 1980s.”Tina offered an account of art in the 1980s, when Morocco witnessed political instability

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Image credits: portrait of Tina Barouti. Artist Abdelkrim Ouazzani (right) carrying a large snake with the help of children and adults from his studio to al-Faddān square, Tetouan, 1985. Bouabid Bouzaid Archive;

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View of the second edition of the Spring Exhibitions with Ahmed Amrani (seated) in front of his paintings in al-Faddān square, Tetouan, 1980. Ahmed Amrani Archive; Installation by Bouabid Bouzaid at the fourth edition of the Spring Exhibitions, al-Faddān square, Tetouan, 1985.

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chosen panels will submit their proposals to the MESA website. Please note that all panelists must be current AMCA members. For further information on panel submission guidelines, visit MESA’s call for papers. A list of previous AMCA-sponsored panels is available on its website.

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Call for AMCA-Sponsored Panels at MESA 2022

The Association for Modern and Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran, and Turkey (@AMCAorg ) may sponsor two panels at this year’s Middle East Studies Association (@MESA_1966 ) meeting, to be held in Denver, December 1-4, 2022.

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Panel organizers: Please submit a 300-400-word panel summary in addition to individual paper abstracts to AMCA at [email protected] by February 9, 2022. AMCA board members will vote to select two panels for submission to MESA

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Looking forward to this event with Iraqi fiction writer Hassan Blasim (and his translator Jonathan Wright). This event is co-sponsored by the Archives of the Disappeared research seminar at the @Cambridge_Uni

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Next Friday, January 28th:
The Madman of Freedom Square
Hassan Blasim and Jonathan Wright
in conversation with Amir Ahmadi Arian

https://t.co/oUNO89lb1B

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The deadline to apply has been extended until December 31st so we would be very grateful if you could share this information with the Ph.D holders that you know who could match this profile.

For any question, please contact : [email protected]

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Research Scholarship: The Ecole du Louvre has been asked to organize a call for applicants for the "Fondation Marc de Montalembert". The prize is a 9 000€ scholarship, a 1 month-research stay in Paris and the possibility to publish an article.

https://t.co/aNIZPsXVBP

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REMINDER: THE 2021 RHONDA A. SAAD PRIZE FOR BEST PAPER IN MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ARAB ART

AMCA is currently accepting submissions for the 2021 Rhonda A. Saad Prize for Best Paper in Modern and Contemporary Arab Art. Due date is December 15
https://t.co/0PgGVKe4aA