Parallel Histories of Palestine: Art, Archives and Solidarity

​Archives are important in preserving history, but how should they be presented or preserved? In this seminar, Palestinian artist Ayman AlAzraq, and PRIO Researcher Cindy Horst, will explore the role of art, history, solidarity and interconnections between insiders and outsiders in conflict.

Contemporary Arts Within Revolutions in Sudan: Roundtable with Sudanese Artists - INSPIRE Seminar Series

Migration of the Soul: A Conversation with Visual Artist Khalid Shatta - INSPIRE Seminar Series

In this INSPIRE Seminar, Sudanese visual artist Khalid Shatta will present his artistic journey from childhood in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan to Norway, with his series 'Migration of the Soul'.

Inspiring Serendipities - INSPIRE Seminar Series

Jad El Koury – heritage, memory, healing (INSPIRE Seminar Series)

Inspiring Myanmar: Chuu Wai - An Artist with Baggage - INSPIRE Seminar Series

​Please be invited to first INSPIRE seminar this autumn with Burmese artist and activist Chuu Wai, in conversation with PRIO researcher Marte Nilsen.

Contemporary Arts and War in Sudan: Roundtable with Sudanese Artists

​In this roundtable discussion, Sudanese artists and curators will reflect on the role of arts in the current war and the previous revolutions, as well as comment on the ongoing fragile situation in Sudan.

Resisting Occupation through Art - A Conversation with Ahmed Tobasi

​How does occupation affect art and individual artists? Is it possible to look at art from occupied areas without considering the restrictions on freedom and other rights? Is free art possible in occupied territories?

Moving Through War // Creating Art Away From Home: Hooman Sharifi - INSPIRE Seminar Series

​In this INSPIRE Seminar, choreographer Hooman Sharifi will share his reflections about art in exile and engage in an informal conversation with the audience - while sharing a meal.

Visual Artist Marisa Cornejo in Conversation With Katarzyna Grabska - INSPIRE Seminar Series

Chilean artist Marisa Cornejo, has saved and conducted extensive research on the archives of her father: an artist and teacher, the victim of political imprisonment and torture under Pinochet’s dictatorship, a refugee with no status who died as an alcoholic in exile.

Moving Memories: An Exchange Between Artists Luis Carlos Tovar and Pablo Gershanik - INSPIRE Seminar Series

​With their feet anchored in the North and their hearts gazing to the South, Pablo Gershanik and Luis Carlos Tovar gather in Paris to exchange on what it is to be Latino American in Europe and what it means to have lived internal exile.