BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Royal Portraits and Embedded Stories: Court Paintings and State Narratives in Nineteenth-Century Tunisia (1837-1881), A Lecture by Ridha Moumni PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_1236435_0 SUMMARY:Royal Portraits and Embedded Stories: Court Paintings and State Narratives in Nineteenth-Century Tunisia (1837-1881), A Lecture by Ridha Moumni DESCRIPTION:

The Tunisia Office of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University is pleased to invite you this lecture by

Ridha Moumni, Curator, Art Historian, Postdoctoral Fellow at CMES, Harvard University.

Ridha Moumni obtained his Ph.D in Art History and Archaeology from the Sorbonne, in Paris. His research explores Tunisian classical, modern and contemporary art from a global and transnational perspective, with a specific interest in collecting practices and intellectual history. Dr. Moumni has won prizes in the fields of art history and curatorship. In 2010, he became the first Tunisian fellow to join the French Academy in Rome (Villa Medici). He has curated photography and modern art exhibitions, and he has recently curated a major exhibition to commemorate the 60^th anniversary of the Independence of Tunisia: The Awakening of a Nation: Art at the Dawn of Modern Tunisia (1837-1881) held in Qasr es-Saïd. He has recently published with Elsa Despiney "Artistes de Tunisie", a book on twentieth-century Tunisian artists. Ridha Moumni has been a postdoctoral fellow at the Aga Khan Program of Islamic Architecture at Harvard University in 2018. He is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.

I Thursday, January 16, 2020 || 5:30 to 7:30 pm I

ADMISSION FREE

LOCATION:Tunisia Office Center for Middle Eastern Studies Harvard University, Les jardins du Lac II, Tunis STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20200116T223000Z DTEND:20200117T003000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR