Lectures Available Online

— "The Auto-Mobility of the Inanimate in Dance with Jalal Toufic," in "Listening, Seeing, Writing, Moving: HWP 2016-17 Course Module I," Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, November 16, 2016.

— "Conversation with Jalal Toufic & Hito Steyerl," part of "Hito Steyerl: Junktime," Home Workspace Program 2013-14, Ashkal Alwan, April 16, 2014.

Lecture and book Launch of What Was I Thinking? (Berlin: e-flux journal-Sternberg Press, 2017), followed by a conversation with artist Walid Raad, e-flux, New York, February 28, 2018: Soundcloud / e-flux podcast.

— Boiler Room Lecture: Jalal Toufic, "Which Is the More Difficult in the Christian Era: to Resurrect or to Bury?" Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Melbourne, August 11, 2015.

— "An Outstanding–and Still Crazy–Task: Transforming Ourselves into Gods," Transformation Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, 18 October 2015.


Q and A Available Online

Q and A following the lecture “Two or Three Things I’m Dying to Tell You about The Thousand and One Nights,” in “Indicated by Signs,” Beirut Art Center, September 23, 2009. The lecture was based on the essay “Something I’m Dying to Tell You, Lyn” in my book Two or Three Things I’m Dying to Tell You (Sausalito, CA: Post-Apollo Press, 2005), pp. 88–105. An English translation of the Arabic sections of the Q and A is available here.

Q and A following the lecture “Which Is the More Difficult in the Christian Era: to Resurrect or to Bury?” Beirut Art Center, August 16, 2010. The lecture was based on my book Graziella: The Corrected Edition (Forthcoming Books, 2009), pp. 10–33. The English translation of the quote from Hiroshima mon amour is available here.

“How Would You Not Ask?”: An Interview of Jalal Toufic by W. Raad, June 10, 2010. An English translation of the Arabic segment is available here.

A Conversation Between Walid Raad and Jalal Toufic Dedicated to Walid Raad, June 11, 2010.


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