S2 Ep8: Jonas Tinius with Iza Kavedžija

Florentina Manuel Martínez is a textile artist originally from the state of Veracruz, in the municipality of Chicontepec, in the community of Ateno. She is a Náhuatl language speaker. Currently she is living in Tamaletom (the municipality of Tancanhuitz, in the state of San Luis ...  Show more

Musicologist Dr Adèle Commins is Head of Department of Creative Arts, Media and Music at Dundalk Institute of Technology. Her PhD from Maynooth University focused on the music of Irish-born composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford. Her recordings include contributions to an album o ...  Show more

Gilbert Achcar spoke about his work as an academic and his recent book, "The People Want."

Gilbert Achcar is a Lebanese academic and writer. He is a Professor of Development Studies and International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the Universi ...

In this episode of the afikra podcast, Professor Kirsten Scheid invites us into the world of Modern Art in Lebanon, and Lebanon through the lens of Modern Art. 

We explore what art meant in the 1920s, before the establishment of the Lebanese state, how national imaginari ...

*CHAPTERS* 0:00 - Introduction 0:26 - Greta Naufal1:28 - Yvette Achkar2:27 - La peinture selon Yvette 3:03 - Comment Greta et Yvette se sont rencontrées 5:47 - Yvette avec les élèves 6:50 - L’art abstrait au Liban 7:52 - L’abstraction et l’expressionnisme abstrait d’Yvette 10:00 ...  Show more

Underlying every great city is a rich and vibrant culture that shapes the texture of life within. In The Speculative City: Art, Real Estate, and the Making of Global Los Angeles (U Minnesota Press, 2021), Susanna Phillips Newbury teases out how art and Los Angeles shaped one anot ...  Show more