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The Gingko Conference Series – intended for scholars, public figures and members of the wider public who are engaged with issues concerning the MENA region – fosters dialogue between the West and the Middle East, and promotes mutual understanding based upon our shared interests and concerns.

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The First World War and its Aftermath: The Shaping of the Middle East

2014 Conference
Iran’s Constitutional Revolution of 1906 and the Narratives of the Enlightenment

2015 Conference

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The Mercantile Effect: On Art and Exchange in the Islamicate World During 17th ̶18th Centuries

2016 Conference

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Religious Imaginations: How Narratives Of Faith Are Shaping Today’s World

2017 Conference

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Announcing “A New Divan” Festival – a celebration of 200 years of Goethe’s West-Eastern Divan, co-produced by the Barenboim-Said Akademie and Gingko
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. ‪18-20 November 2019
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. “To everything there is a season!” Goethe wrote 200 years ago in his “Notes for a Better Understanding of the West-Eastern Divan". Today we face another era in which the "West" feels threatened by the "East", by Islam, by the “Other,” by the unknown. To everything there is a season —and the season now seems right to attempt a divan for our times: A New Divan. Gingko and the @barenboimsaidakademie have invited leading poets, artists, and musicians from “East” and “West” to come together for a festival celebrating 200 years of Goethe’s West-Eastern Divan.
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The programme, curated by Prof. Dr. Mena Mark Hanna, Dean of the Barenboim-Said Akademie and co-produced by Gingko, is the culmination of a four-year collaboration between the Barenboim-Said Akademie and the publishers of A New Divan. A series of poetry readings, keynote lectures, and panel discussions will explore and elaborate Goethe’s themes. The three-day event concludes with a concert presenting different settings of poems from Goethe’s Divan, under the musical direction of Daniel Barenboim.
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A New Divan is a multi-lingual anthology of poetry, celebrating what we have in common at a time when people seek to divide us. It was conceived to mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of the original Divan. “This reimagining of Goethe’s seminal work gives us the opportunity to re-engage with his thoughts—a much-needed exercise, given the state of the world today”, writes Daniel Barenboim in his foreword.
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The festival programme is complemented by an exhibition and the screening of a documentary film featuring the artist and activist Bahia Shehab. Admission to all events except the concert is free but tickets are required. .
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See here to explore the full programme: https://boulezsaal.de/new-divan
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The great poets Adonis & Khaled Mattawa in conversation and reading from “A New Divan” and other works as part of @southbankcentre ‘s #londonlitfest