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Lecture by Lara Ayad: Title to be announced

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Theme:	Academic/Research Visual Arts
Format:	Lecture
Date:	Mar 12, 2015 6:00–7:00pm
Organized by:	Netherlands-Flemish Institute Cairo (NVIC)
Venue:	Netherlands-Flemish Institute Cairo (NVIC)
Address:	1 Mahmoud Azmi Street, Zamalek

In this talk, Lara Ayad will weave together her research with the notion of nostalgia, avant-garde, and gender roles, focusing on the politics and implications of representation.

Lara Ayad is an art history PhD candidate at Boston University. In her research she focuses on avant-garde painting and sculpture made between the mid-1930s through the early 1970s and the proliferation of images of women in these works.