This colloquium is devoted to discussing questions of how the visual rendering of what has happened and is happening in Lebanon relates to political agency, public discourse, international discourse, and possible reparation in the face of multiple crises.

The colloquium will include Lebanese artists, architects, forensic architects, and visual mappers of the forms of ‘injury’ that our project, Mapping Injury, is investigating, including, for example, the bombing of cities, population displacements, the impact of historic harms, the Beirut Port explosion and multiple other crises that have become of the everyday lived experience of the population.

The colloquium is dedicated to Lebanon, and as such, will also involve scholars working on Lebanon and its domestic and international politics.

The colloquium is part of the project, Mapping Injury, an ERC Adv, Frontier Research Grant funded through the UKRI’s Horizon Europe Guarantee.

Please note:
This event is reserved for invited guests only. If you have not received an invitation but are interested in attending, please contact madonna.kalousian@kcl.ac.uk.

Programme

09:00 – 09:45	Registration and Coffee
09:45 – 10:00	Why the Visual Matters in Mapping Injury Welcome and Introduction, Vivienne Jabri, PI Mapping Injury, King’s College London
10:00 – 10:45	Landscape of Selective Desolation: War as Everyday Life in Lebanon Bashir Saade, University of Stirling
10:45 – 11:30	Fourteen Years of Humanitarian and Aid Policies: the Erosion of Education Governance and Capacity in Lebanon Maha Shuayb, University of Cambridge
11:30 – 11:45	Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:45	Rebellion against Time Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, interviewed by Cécile Bourne-Farrell
12:45 – 13:45	Lunch Break
13:45 – 14:30	The Role of Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT) in Investigating Conflict: Lebanon’s Case Ahmad Baydoun, Technical University of Delft
14:30 – 15:15	Listening in the Aftermath of Trauma in Lebanon Mhamad Safa, Royal College of Art
15:15 – 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:15	Mapping, Access, Discord: Cases from Beirut Ahmad Gharbieh, American University of Beirut
16:15 – 17:00	Evacuation Orders as Forced Displacement Madonna Kalousian, King’s College London
17:00 – 17:15	Conclusion Vivienne Jabri
17:15 – 18:30	Reception