May 23 and 24, 2006
A CONFERENCE ON ALL THINGS PERIPHERAL
Hosted by the Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede and organized by the Dutch Art Institute/ Master Programme / ArtEZ
With keynote lectures by Tony Chakar, Lucy Cotter, Fulya Erdemci & Erwin Jans.
Respondents were (amongst many others): Fulya Erdemci (Turkey), Kodwo Eshun (United Kingdom), Stijn Huijts, (The Netherlands), Toma Muteba (Belgium), Ruben de la Nuez (Cuba/The Netherlands).
The conference was kindly supported by the SNS Reaal Fonds, the VSB Fonds and the Municipality of Enschede.

June 18 – 27, 2007
AN EXHIBITION AT VILLA DE BANK IN ENSCHEDE
conceptualized by artist/curator James Beckett. In order to include a large quantity of material on the Here as the Centre of the World projects involved, the exhibition was put up like a ‘magazine’ or ‘book’ through which the visitor could navigate, and ‘zoom in’ into the processing of the observations in raw documents and sketches by various artists. In addition replicas were made of some of the installations that were originally realized on location by carefully reproducing the initial form. By using the simple formal device of painting everything grey, each replica became an ‘evacuated piece’, a sort of ghost of its former self.

May 10 - 18, 2008.
HERE AS THE CENTRE AT THE KUNSTVLAAI
An interactive installation at the Kunstvlaai, an alternative ‘Art Fair’ in Amsterdam, took the project as its departure point. James Beckett (curator), Bani Bannwart, Daniëlle Davidson, Nikos Doulos, Julien Grossmann, Rana Hamadeh, Anna Korteweg, Chris Meighan, Jae-Min Kim, Alite Thijsen & Emily Williams created a temporary archive - a place of conversation and processing.
  
September 8 - 17, 2008
Follow-up visit to Beirut by Nikos Doulos, Chris Meighan & Alite Thijsen

October 9 - 19, 2008
Follow–up visit to Damascus by Rana Hamadeh, Meiyu Tao, Alite Thijsen & Emily Williams

September 13, 2009
Booklaunch Here as the Centre of the World
Book launch at the Dutch Consulate and Artcitizens Shop in Istanbul.
The publication was presented in the context of the 11th Istanbul Biennial to Onno Kervers at the Dutch Consulate-General in Istanbul. This event was hosted by Özkan Gölpinar, intendant of Fonds BKVB and author of the essay, ‘The Smell of the City, an essay on the city of Enschede found in the publication; Here as the Centre of the World. Proceeding this event the publication was launched at the Artcitizens shop in Istanbul  with introductions by Lucy Cotter and Tony Chakar.

Lucy Cotter at the Artcitizens shop