viSiting Scholar Seminar

ViSiting Scholar Seminar Zahia Rahmani

Novelist and art historian Zahia Rahmani was born in Algeria to a Berber family just after the end of the Algerian War. In Paris, she studied art history, especially modern and contemporary art, and aesthetics. After writing a thesis on American artist Robert Rauschenberg, she worked in a variety of major centers for the study of contemporary art, such as the Léo Castelli Gallery in New York, the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (Nice), Villa Arson (Nice), and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts (Paris). She is currently a director of research and mission at the Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art in Paris. While visiting the University of Notre Dame, Rahmani gave two lectures: An Art Historian in France: Thoughts and Methods and Can One Testify on Behalf of Islam?

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