The Visual, the Social, and the Political in Lebanon’s Multiple Crises

The 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.