The project Beyond Orientalism(s) – Towards New Infrastructures is a cooperation and exchange project between the MA Art History and Curating program at the American University of Beirut and the MA program Cultures of the Curatorial (Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig) funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) with funds from the Federal Foreign Office (AA).
Responsible for the conception and implementation of the program:
Prof. Dr. Beatrice von Bismarck (HGB Leipzig), Prof. Dr. Octavian Esanu (AUB), Dania Dabbousi (AUB), Milena Gehrt (AUB), Julia Kurz (HGB Leipzig), Johanna Ralser (HGB Leipzig), Prof. Dr. Kirsten Scheid (AUB)
Editorial Team Website: Prof. Dr. Beatrice von Bismarck (HGB Leipzig), Prof. Dr. Octavian Esanu (AUB), Milena Gehrt (AUB), Johanna Ralser (HGB Leipzig)
Participants 2023
AUB: Amanda El Bitar, Lin Dabbous, Retaj Darwiesh, Milena Gehrt, Yara Jaber, Edwina Nassar, Tina Odermatt, Chirine Rasheed, Lubna Rages, Iona Stewart
HGB: Sandy Becker, Julianne Csapo, Tuan Do Duc, Lisa Dreykluft, Anna Karpenko, Robert Koepke, Insa Langhorst, Elli Leeb, Dereck Marouco, Martin Naundorf, Makoto Okajima, Iana Pitenko, Sophia Charlotte Reiser, Elisa Schmitt, Martha Schwindling, Laura Stieg, Viviane Tabach
Participants 2024:
AUB: Raghda Allouche, Mehdi Awada, Milena Gehrt, Shereen Makarem, Karim Naamani, Edwina Nassar, Bisan Al Saadi, Layan Sanjar
Practioners (AUB): Clementine Butler-Gallie, Siska, Rania Rafei, Raed Rafe
HGB: Clarissa Aidar Oliveira, Juness Beshir, Raphael Bruning, Yana Gaponenko, Hanna Gebert, Elena Grimbs, Ammar Hatem, Alem Kolbus, Victoria Langmann, Amelie Lill, Helene Jil Otto, Ulrike Elisabeth Riebel, Rebekka Rinner, Anastasia Shestak, Alexandra Trost, Miriam Trosdorf, Theresa Weber
Website Development and Design: Ehab Assadi, Samer Assadi
Video Documentation and Editing: Laura Wichmann
Photo Documentation (HGB): Anna Perepechai, Felix Pacholleck
Video and Media Assistance (AUB): Joseph Azar
Graphic Design (AUB, HGB): Leen Murad, Yara Jaber
Translator (AUB): Wassim Adnan Attar
Proofreading: Amy Patton
Support in coordinating accounting: Rania Tohme, Natalia Braslavskaya
Support for website implementation: Anselm Hötte, Dr. Uwe Klaus
Special thanks go to our always helpful DAAD contacts, Ms. Laux and Ms. Margret Linden-Schneider.
Every effort has been made to contact the rightful owners with regard to copyrights and permissions. We apologize for any inadvertent errors or omissions. Should any entitlement to such rights arise please contact us via beyond@hgb-leipzig.de.