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Lectures and Artist Talks — “Saving the Living Human’s Face and Backing the Mortal,” Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey, 12 March 2005.
— “Saving the Living Human’s Face and Backing the Mortal,”
Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts, cosponsored
by Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center and the Visual Criticism
Program at CCA, 2 December 2004.
— “Saving the Living Human’s Face and Backing
the Mortal,” cosponsored by the departments of Modern Culture
and Media, Theatre, Speech and Dance, and Literary Arts, 29 November
2004.
— “Saving the Living Human’s Face and Backing
the Mortal” and “The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a
Surpassing Disaster,” inaugural lectures at “Flicker
at Buffalo: Correspondences in New Media, Film, and Poetry,”
State University of New York at Buffalo, 17 and 18 November 2004.
— “Saving the Living Human’s Face and Backing
the Mortal,” the Center for Behavioral Research, the American
University of Beirut, 25 October 2004.
— “Saving the Living Human’s Face & Backing
the Mortal,” Akademie der Bildenden Künste (the Academy
of Fine Arts), Munich, 24 June 2004.
— “Backing Mortals’ Proper Names,” part
of Irruptions of the Real: 2 Videos and 1 Lecture by Jalal Toufic,
DisORIENTation: Contemporary Arab Artistic Practices from the Middle
East, House of World Cultures, Berlin, 12 April 2003.
— Panalist in “Politics and Aesthetics — the Political
Context for Artists and Art Production,” part of the symposium
“Creativity, Crisis and Critics — Art Production in
the Arab World,” DisORIENTation: Contemporary Arab Artistic
Practices from the Middle East, House of World Cultures, Berlin,
5 April 2003.
— “Artist Talk: Jalal Toufic,” BüroFriedrich,
Berlin, 7 December 2002.
— “Discussion between Paul Perry and Jalal Toufic,”
Witte de With, Rotterdam, 29 October 2002.
— “‘Âshûrâ’: A Condition
of Possibility of an Unconditional Promise,” in Home Works:
A Forum on Cultural Practices in the Region (participants from
Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria), The Lebanese Association
for Plastic Arts, Ashkal Alwan, Madina Theatre, Beirut, Lebanon,
3 April 2002.
— “Backing Mortals’ Proper Names,” Klein
Yalta 101, DasArts, the Netherlands, 2 November 2001.
— “Forthcoming,” in the seminar “Contemporary
Arab Representations,” directed by Catherine David, the International
University of Andalusia, Seville, Spain, 22 - 26 October 2001. My
presentation is published
online .
— Panelist in the roundtable discussion “Photography
and Memory,” Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beirut, 25 June
2001.
— “Backing Mortals’ Proper Names,” Department
of Architecture and Graphic Design, American University of Beirut,
9 May 2001.
— Panalist in the symposium “In Need of the Other Identity,”
Malmö University, Sweden, 21 September, 2000.
— Guest Lecturer, Department of Theatre and Film Studies,
University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 26 July 2000: “The
Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster.”
— Panalist in Kahlil Gibran: Horizons of the Painter,
Musée Nicolas Sursock, 27 January 2000: “Kneeling Angel
with Mountainous Wings.”
— Visiting Artist, Film Department, California College of
Arts and Crafts, 25 March 1999.
— Roundtable discussion with John Baldessari, Dick Hebdige,
David Bunn, and Mary Ellen Solt, in conjunction with the exhibition
“Text,” California Institute of the Arts, 15 April 1998.
— Guest Lecturer, Department of Theatre and Film Studies,
University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2 April 1998: “Radical
Closure.”
— Panalist in “From al-Mashriq to San Francisco:
Arab Writers of the Bay Area,” 7th Annual San Francisco Bay
Area Book Festival, 2 November 1996.
— Critical Arts Forum, California Institute of the Arts, 22
October 1996: “The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing
Disaster”.
— Guest Lecturer, Film Department, California College of Arts
and Crafts, 16 October 1996: “Immobilization in Undeath, Trance,
and Dance: Landscapes of People.”
— Reading (with Lebanese writer and painter Etel Adnan), New
Langton Arts, San Francisco, 2 February 1995.
Lectures in the Classes of Other Artists/Filmmakers/Videomakers:
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Guest Lecturer in a Walid Raad class at Cooper Union, New York,
22 November 2004: “The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing
Disaster,” and “Ruins.”
— Guest Lecturer in a Sharon Lockhart class at the Art Department,
UCLA, 19 May 1997: “Irruptions of Photographs and Colors in
Radical Closures.”
— Guest Lecturer in Trinh T. Minh-ha’s seminar Film,
Feminism and the Avant-Garde, Department of Women’s Studies,
University of California at Berkeley, 28 February 1996: “Maya
Deren.”
— Guest Lecturer in Trinh T. Minh-ha’s seminar Film
(De)Aesthetics, Department of Women’s Studies, University
of California at Berkeley, 11 and 27 September 1995.
— Visiting Artist (with screening of Credits Included)
in Lynn M. Kirby’s class, Film Department, California College
of Arts and Crafts, 10 April 1995.
— Guest Lecturer in a Trinh T. Minh-ha class, Department of
Women’s Studies, University of California at Berkeley, 5 April
1995: “Marguerite Duras: Between ‘You have seen nothing
in Hiroshima’ and ‘It would have been a film; it is
a film.’”
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