QF’s Education City Speaker Series to focus on art, identity, and conflict

QF’s Education City Speaker Series to focus on art, identity, and conflict

Art and activism will come together next week as the latest edition of Qatar Foundation’s (QF) Education City Speaker Series explores what the creative world can tell us about the wider world – and about ourselves. Held in collaboration with Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts (VCUarts) in the US, the online event from 7 to 8pm (Doha time) on October 25 will tackle the theme Art and Conflict: A Window on the World, A Window Into Us, with a panel of local, regional, and international experts sharing their perspectives.

The discussion will delve into how art allows people to experience and empathise with viewpoints other than their own, and its role as a powerful tool for shedding light on conflict and the struggles of others. It will be the 12th online edition of QF's popular dialogue platform, which, since moving to virtual form at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, has attracted tens of thousands of viewers from across the world.

Speakers for next week’s event will be Dr Abdellah Karroum, director of Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, which is based at QF’s Education City; art dealer, curator, activist, and arts journalist