by admin | Feb 1, 2020 | CrossRoads Event, Exhibitions
Due to COVID-19, temporarily not accesible Photographic exhibition – Frank Scholten: Archaeology and Tourism in the ‘Holy Land’ RMO exhibition, 2nd April 2020- end of the summer 2020 In early 1921, Dutch photographer Frank Scholten (1881-1942) arrived in the...
by admin | Sep 30, 2019 | CrossRoads Event, Exhibitions
18th October 2019 – 11-12:30 PM Leiden University Library – Hensius Room Scholten was a Dutch photographer who travelled through Palestine from 1921-23. His extensive collection of photos numbers upwards of 20,000 images, very few of which have been publicly seen. The...
by admin | Sep 27, 2019 | CrossRoads Event, Sary Zananiri
Round Table ‘This transnational paradise’ Re-visiting photography and circulation in British Mandate Palestine 17 October 2019, Leiden University 17:30- 19:00, Vossius room Drinks afterwards, all welcome! British Mandate Palestine (1918-1948) was the nexus of many...
by admin | Sep 27, 2019 | CrossRoads Event
16th October 2019 – 7PM Leiden University Library – Vossius Room ‘Orienting the Tour’ with Sarah Irving (Leiden University) will look at Stephan Hanna Stephan’s English travel guides of Palestine produced in the 1940s that were predominantly marketed to British and...
by admin | Sep 26, 2019 | CrossRoads Event, Sary Zananiri
16 October 2019, Leiden University 18:00, Vossius room Abstract by Dr. Salim Tamari Wasif Jawhariyyeh recomposed his memoirs in the early 1960s, when he was in his sixties, on the basis of his notebooks, and on notes and captions inscribed into his photographic...
by admin | Jun 3, 2019 | Conferences attended, CrossRoads Event, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Scholars in residence
From 03-07 June 2019 the summer school ‘Renouveaux des sources et méthodes pour l’étude du phénomène missionnaire’ took place in the Ecole française de Rome in Italy. Karène Sanchez Summerer was co-organizer as part of the MisSMO consortium project ‘Christian...
