This panel will consider the work of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine (1931-1998); Jean Dubuffet's travels in Algeria and concomitant formulation of his definition of “art brut”; and the late Assia Djebar's writing on Baya at the end of the Algerian War of Independence. Speakers include Natasha Boas, curator of the exhibition; author Omar Berrada; Denis Hollier, professor of French Literature, Thought, and Culture, NYU; and Kent Minturn, Visiting…