LECTURES, SEMINARS, NOMINATIONS & WORKSHOPS

2023

Vox Populi: Tahrir Archives, New York University Abu Dhabi, UAE, Almawrid Arab Center for the Arts

Hiwar @ Art Cairo, panelist, The Arab Artist, Speaking Universal, Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM)

2021

In conversation with Anthony Downey, Columbia University, Wallach Gallery, Public Program

Keynote Speaker, “Common ground? Root causes of Protests towards reform.” “Protesting for Political Reforms – Prerequisites for peaceful transformations and violence prevention”. Berlin Summer Dialogue, Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden (sef:) / Development and Peace Foundation, Germany

Keynote Speaker, “Anthropology in Transit” Graduate Conference, “Palimpsest in Practice." University of California, USA

In conversation live on YouTube with Emanuela Mazzonis, curator of exhibition Me Family, MUDAM, Luxembourg

In conversation / Moderator (online), Ganzeer and Bassem Yousri, ArteEast, New York

In conversation / Respondent (online), Lawrence Abu Hamdan, ACT Lecture Series, MIT

2020

Masterclass, Misk Foundation, Misk Art Week, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Panelist (online), Culture Re-Cultivated, Re-Cultivating the Archive, Misk Foundation, Misk Art Week, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Presentation and Workshop of Project 21, Open Documentary Lab, CMS/MIT

Panelist, “The Only Constant is Change:” Arab Spring: between memories and continuation, The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) and zenith magazine

Lecture Presentation, The Artists Sanctum (online), non-profit art organization based in New York, USA

2019

Keynote Speaker, Creative Time Summit X, Cooper Union NYC

Lecture, Global Emergent Media Lab, the Political Imaginaries of Media, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

2018

Panelist, The Future of Offline Media and Online Identities, Document Journal x Prada, Art Basel Miami, Florida, USA

Workshop, New York University, Kervokian Center for Near Eastern Studies, Archiving as Resistance & the ABC of Revolting, NY, NY, USA

ABC of Revolution, workshop, Hagop Kevorkian Centre, New York University, Fall 2018, New York, USA (password to view the above video: 1212)

ABC of Revolution, workshop, Hagop Kevorkian Centre, New York University, Fall 2018, New York, USA

Lecture, Photography and Resistance, Associate Professor of French Studies, Catherine Clarks’s course, Photography and Paris, Global Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA

Respondent, Daniel Bacchieri, #StreetMusicMap, Comparative Media Studies (CMSW), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA

Panelist, Imagined Borders, Gwangju Biennial, Gwangju, South Korea

Lecture, Otis College of Art and Design, Emerging Curators Program, Los Angeles, USA

Masterclass: Archiving As Resistance, Media Lab Prado, Madrid, Spain

Panelist, “What Is the Archive?,” conference organized by the Municipal Archive of Lisbon, Portugal

Lecture, Open Documentary Lab, CMS/W, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Panelist, Ethics & Archiving the Web, conference organised by Rhizome, New Museum, New York City, NY, USA

Artist talk, a conversation between curator Irene Campolmi and Lara Baladi, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, March, Copenhagen, Denmark

Panelist, Affect Me. Social Media Images In Art, organised by Dr Kerstin Schankweiler and Julia Honer, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany

2017

Panelist, Resistance-by-recording: The Visuality and Visibility of Contentious Politics in Egypt, Syria, and Palestine, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, Stockholm University, Sweden

Panelist, Arts Research Aesthetics: Questioning Aesthetics Symposium, La Virreina Centre de la Imatge La Rambla, Co-organized by EINA, University School of Design and Art, University of Barcelona and the Transdisciplinary Aesthetics Foundation, Barcelona, Spain

Nomination, Finalist for the Museum of Fine Arts Boston’s 2017 Maud Morgan Prize. Established in 1993 in honor of artist and teacher Maud Morgan (1903-1999), this biennial prize publicly celebrates the work of one exceptional Massachusetts woman artist whose career has made significant contributions to contemporary art discourse and practice in the state.

Art and Drones, Roundtable Seminar, Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden

Archiving a Revolution: Public talk with artist Lara Baladi, Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden

Panelist, Vox Populi and The Syrian Archive, Documenting Revolution and Conflict in the Digital Age, public debate at Eye Film Institute, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Workshop, Access and Accessibility, Archiving Systems. University of Amsterdam and part of the As If/Vox Populi/The Syrian Archive, Tactical Media Connections public program, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Guest Lecturer, School of Global Affairs and Policy, Department of Law, American University of Cairo, Egypt

2016

Panelist, Listening Interventions in the Middle East and North Africa conference at Northwestern University, Chicago, USA

Guest lecturer, Art and Politics in Postcolonial Africa, Associate Professor, Chika Okele-Agulu, MFA, PhD, Princeton University, department of Art & Archeology / Department of African American Studies, N.J., USA

Guest lecturer, Intro to Civic Media, Professor Sasha Costanza Chock of Civic Media and Principal Investigator, MIT, CMS/W, Cambridge, MA, USA

Guest lecturer, Women and Gender in the Middle East and Africa , Assistant Professor Lerna Ekmekcioglu, MIT school of humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Cambridge, MA, USA

Panelist, Technology / Affect Space, a workshop exploring the politics and aesthetics of spaces such as Tahrir Square, moderated by Lucas Freeman with media theorist Eric Kluitenberg, professor of Emergent Media, Alessandra Renzi, media maker and professor of Civic Media Sasha Costanza Chock, MIT, ACT, Cambridge, MA, USA

Panelist, 5 Years After, Transmediale, Art & Digital Culture, moderated by Oliver Lerone Schultz, Berlin, Germany

Panelist, Tactical Media & the Archive, Transmediale, Art & Digital Culture, moderated by David Garcia and Erick Kluitenberg, Berlin, Germany

2015

Guest Lecturer, Documenting Dissent, Professor Dalia Linssen, History of Art and Visual Culture Department, Photography Department, and Academic Affairs, RISD, Providence, R.I., USA

Guest Lecturer, New Debates in Media, Professor Gabriele Trépagnier, MIT, CMS/W, Cambridge, MA, USA

Archiving a Revolution in the Digital Age, Middle East Institute, Washington DC, USA

Archiving A Revolution in the Digital Age, CIC, Cairo, Egypt

2014

Notes from El Saniyya, open conversation & interactive event on Vox Populi, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, MA, USA

Unrest: Art, Activism & Revolution, Helen Day art Center, Stowe, Vermont, USA

Organised Chaos, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA

Art and Conflict in the Arab Region, Open Society Foundation, New York City, USA

On Tahrir Cinema, Hacking Arts, Media Lab, MIT University, MA, USA

Archive as an Act of Resistance, keynote speaker, Radical Archives conference, New York University, New York City, USA

Archiving a Revolution in the Digital Age, Colomboscope Festival, Making History, Colombo, Sri Lanka

2013

Archiving a Revolution in the Digital Age. Modern Heritage Observatory, American University, Beirut, Lebanon

Image & Revolution, a personal account, Shifting Sands conference, Art Space, Sydney and CACSA (Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia), Australia

Violence on Women, ZKM (Centre for Media), Karlsruhe, Germany

In Retrospect, Learning from Cairo conference. American University in Cairo, Egypt

Opening speech for the exhibition Cairo Open City, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany

On Archiving the Egyptian Revolution, Power in whose palm? Salzburg Global Seminar, Austria