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9 March — 12 March, 2023
Performance
Marwah AlMugait
Calligraphy Square
Heritage Area, Heart of Sharjah
Talk
Hoor Al Qasimi (President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation); Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons (Cornelius Vanderbilt Endowed Chair Professor of Fine Arts, Art AS | Vanderbilt University); and Octavio Zaya (Art critic and curator)
Moderator: Christian Oxenius (Writer and curator)
Sharjah Institute for Theatrical Arts
Calligraphy Square, Heritage Area
Performance
Naiza Khan, accompanied by Asma Mundrawala, Nabeel Al Mazem and Haider Rahman on flute
Bait Obaid Al Shamsi
Arts Square
Welcome remarks
Hoor Al Qasimi (President and Director, Sharjah Art Foundation)
Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah
Keynote
Terry Smith (Professor, European Graduate School; Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney and University of Pittsburgh)
Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah
Panel
Mahvish Ahmad (Assistant Professor in Human Rights and Politics, London School of Economics); Zeina Maasri (Senior Lecturer, History of Art, University of Bristol); Jelena Vesić (Independent curator, writer, editor and lecturer); and Zoé Whitley (Director and Curator, Chisenhale Gallery)
Moderator: Christopher J. Lee (Professor of African History, The Africa Institute)
Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah
Panel
Patrick Flores (Professor of Art Studies, University of the Philippines); Anthony Gardner (Professor of Contemporary Art History, The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford); Atreyee Gupta (Assistant Professor of Global Modern Art; Modern and Contemporary South and Southeast Asian Art, Berkeley); and Anissa Rahadiningtyas (Assistant Curator, National Gallery of Singapore)
Moderator: Iftikhar Dadi (John H. Burris Professor in History of Art, Cornell University)
Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah
Sharjah Biennial 15 Film Programme
Mirage City Cinema
Al Mureijah Square
Keynote
Gilane Tawadros (Director, Whitechapel Art Gallery)
Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah
Panel
Anna Arabindan-Kesson (Associate Professor of African American and Black Diasporic Art, Princeton University and Senior Research Fellow, Art Gallery of Western Australia); Eddie Chambers (Professor of Art History and African Diaspora Art, The David Bruton, Jr. Centennial Professorship in Art History, University of Texas at Austin); Mithu Sen (artist); and Nina Tonga (Curator of Contemporary Art, Te Papa Tongarewa, Museum of New Zealand)
Moderator: Salwa Mikdadi (Professor of Practice of Art History, NYU Abu Dhabi and Director and Principle Investigator, al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art)
Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah
Panel
Nadi Abusaada (Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zürich); Nancy Lin (Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University); Pamela Nguyen Corey (Associate Professor of Art History, Fulbright University Vietnam); and AbdouMaliq Simone (Senior Professorial Fellow, Urban Institute, University of Sheffield)
Moderator: Kamran Ali (Professor of Anthropology, University of
Texas at Austin)
Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah
Performance
Kiluanji Kia Henda, accompanied by Kimberley Agyarko, Sahar Ali and Mohammed Rawashdeh
Music by: Satch Hoyt
Sharjah Performing Arts Academy
Keynote
Margo Crawford (The Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor for Faculty Excellence, University of Pennsylvania)
Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah
Panel
Jihan El-Tahri (Director, Big Sister Productions); John Tain (Head of Research, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong); Krista Thompson (Mary Jane Crowe Professor in Art History, Northwestern University); and Simon Soon Sien Yong (Senior Lecturer in Southeast Asian Art History, Universiti Malaya
Moderator: Elizabeth Harney (Associate Professor of Art History, University of Toronto)
Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah
Panel
Tayeba Begum Lipi (Artist, Co-Founder and Trustee of Britto Arts Trust); Heather Igloliorte (University Research Chair in Circumpolar Indigenous Arts, Concordia University); Sonal Khullar (W. Norman Brown Associate Professor of South Asian Studies, University of Pennsylvania); and Charlene Villaseñor Black (Professor of Art History and Chicana/o Studies, UCLA)
Moderator: Terri Geis (Visiting Associate Professor of Art and Art History, NYU Abu Dhabi)
Africa Hall
Al Manakh, Sharjah
Performance
Akeim Toussaint Buck
Bait Obaid Al Shamsi
Arts Square