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When Waters Speak webinar

When waters speak

We invite you to join us for the second webinar in our "When Waters Speak" series, titled Towards an Open Museum of Water Culture. This webinar will bring together an international panel of artists and cultural activists, makers and scholars to discuss the Open Museum Initiative for Water Culture, an art-led project for the protection and revitalization of water heritage in the Fertile Crescent and Arabian Peninsula.

Webinar ID: 918 8529 4779

From its hub in Basra, at the confluence of the Tigris-Euphrates river system and the Gulf, the Open Museum Initiative reaches out to connect regionally via the flow of the waters and their history and heritage of traditional practices, archaeological and geological remains, and archival records: visual, textual and oral.

The conversation will focus on the historic roles of boats and waterways as a means of movement and relationship between peoples throughout the region and will explore international examples, including Venice, as an emerging “open museum” where water heritage is a subject of creative engagement and multidisciplinary study. Participants are invited to consider how, in Iraq and regionally, such heritage can again become a basis for connection and regenerative action.

Programme

Moderators: Lucrezia Gigante and Alice Chautard

15:00 – 15:05: Welcome and Introduction (Eriberto Eulisse)

Panel:

15:05 – 15:25: Rashad Salim and Hannah Lewis, Safina Projects

15:25 – 15:40: Nabil Musa, Waterkeepers Iraq-Kurdistan

15:40 – 15:55: Dr Muntather al-Hassani, Al-Turath Al-Sha’bi journal / Shanashil Foundation

15:55 – 16:00: Break

Discussion:

16:00 – 16:20: Roundtable Discussion with panel presenters and invited discussants, including Isber Sabrine, Heritage for Peace, Prof. Daniel Potts, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, and Maurizio Ulliana, Museum of River Navigation, Battaglia Terme

16:20 – 16:40: Q&A with audience

16:40 – 16:45: Closing Remarks (Eriberto Eulisse)