Food as Art, Memory and Resistance

LAU Beirut Campus, AKSOB 903

Image credit: Seta Manoukian, Bread Series, 1992

Organized jointly by the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at the School of Arts and Sciences and the Institute of Art in the Arab World at the School of Architecture and Design, the panel will explore how contemporary artists across the Arab world and diaspora use food as a medium to address questions of identity, memory, migration and resistance.

• Moderator
  Dr. Lama Mattar
  Associate Professor of Nutrition, LAU
   
• Speakers
  1. Dr. Yasmine Nachabe Taan
      Professor of Art and Design, LAU
  
  2. Hussein Hadid
      Chef at the Pavilion Café - Nuhad Es Said Pavilion for Culture at the National Museum
  
  3. Christine Kettaneh
      Artist
  
  4. Siroun Sarian
      Artist
  
  5. Christine Abi Azar
      Artist
  
  6. Seta Manoukian
      Artist