Spring 2010
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Fall 2009
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Available Bios & Abstracts
Tuesday, February 16 in room 3-309
Preservation of Architectural Monuments in Kazakhstan: Policies and Methods
Gulnara Kamalova
Head of the Research Department at the
Kazakhstan Restoration Agency (Kazrestoration)
Tuesday, February 23
Harar, a Muslim City in Ethiopia
Philippe Revault
Architect & Urbanist
Fulbright Visiting Professor
Wentworth Institute of Technology
March 8
Revisiting the Trope of “Unity and Variety” in Islamic Art
Gülru Necipoglu
Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art
Harvard University
April 12
Urbanization, Poverty and Land-Use in the Megacities of South Asia
Elizabeth Dean Hermann
Professor of Urban Studies and Landscape Architecture,
Design for Development, and the History of Islamic Architecture
and Urbanism, Rhode Island School of Design
April 20, at 6pm in MIT Room 6-120
Presentation by Ratish Nanda, Aga Khan Trust for Culture (details)
April 26
Interrupting the Archive: Indigenous Interventions to Colonial Categories of Indian Heritage
Mrinalini Rajagopalan
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
 
May 3 at 12:30 pm in Room 56-114
Omar Offendum
May 3
Breaching the Walled Cities of Bilâd al-Shâm
Nicolas Prouteau
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
May 7, 12:30 pm in Room 3-309
2009-2010 Aga Khan Travel Grant Presentations
MIT Students Recipients of the Travel Grant Award
Bernadette Baird-Zars, MCP
Developing Heritage: Constructed Visions in the Decision-Making Process of Property Regulation in Aleppo, Syria
Charles Curran, MArch
Retrofit + Shrink-wrap Dubai // An Urban Rescovery Plan
Azra Dawood, AKPIA@MIT SMAchS
Igor Demchenko, HTC PhD
Ahmad Yasawi Mausoleum in Russian Empire: 1864-1917
Laura Lee Schmidt, AKPIA@MIT SMAchS
Looking at the Book of Secrets in the Absence of Wonder
 
May 20, 6-8 pm & May 21, 9 am-5 pm
MIT Kirsch Auditorium
Workshop:
Rethinking Water: A Critical Resource
AKPIA sponsorship contribution.
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Building New Campuses In the Islamic World
Available Bios & Abstracts
October 5
KAUST – King Abdullah University for Science and Technology – A Step into the Future
William Odell, FAIA
Design Principal, HOK Architects
Ammar Alnahwi, PhD
Associate Director, Global Collaborative
Research, KAUST US
October 26
Education for All – Education City, Doha, Qatar
Kevin Underwood
Vice President / Principal, EDAW | AECOM
November 16
Drawing on Islamic City-Building Traditions to Create a 21st Century Community of Learning
David Dixon, FAIA
Principal in charge of Planning and Urban Design
Goody, Clancy & Associates
 
Special Lecture
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Palmettes, Arches, Geometrical Patterns: Ornaments in the Marble Carvings from Medieval Afghanistan
Martina Rugiadi
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
Sapienza Università di Roma
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Spring 2009
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Fall 2008
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Available Bios & Abstracts
March 9
Islamabad: The Making of a ‘City of the Future’ 1959-1963
Ahmed Zaib Khan Mahsud
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
March 16
Arabian Nights Architecture: The Adoption of Fantasy Middle Eastern Design in Constructing Indonesian and Malaysian Identities
Sarah Moser
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
April 6
Planning Jerusalem: Between Ottoman and Colonial Modernity
Salim Tamari
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
April 13
2008-09 Aga Khan Travel Grant Presentations
MIT Students Recipients of the Travel Grant Award
Zehra Ali: Study of Innovations in Building Energy Efficiency in Northern Pakistan
Zameer Basrai: A Study in Architectural Identity of Ismaili Philanthropic Institutions in Contemporary Bombay
Christian Hedrick: German-Austrian Influences in 19th Century Cairo
Anneka Lenssen: Pioneers and Primitives: Painting from Syria, 1960-1970
Alexa Rosenberg: Managing Evolution in a Prominent African NGO: Lessons from Enda Tiers Monde in Dakar, Senegal
Saturday, April 18
Workshop:
Water in Architecture, Landscape + Urbanism
 
Saturday, April 25
Workshop:
Exploring the Role of History in Contemporary Architectural Practice
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History Theory and Design Practice
Available Bios & Abstracts
September 15
The Cosmopolitan and The Particular: Observations on Inhabitation, Culture, and Building-form at the Aga Khan University Hospital and Medical School in Karachi, Pakistan
Daniel Gorini
AIA, LEED
October 20
Current Work in the Mideast and US
Hashim Sarkis
Aga Khan Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urbanism
Harvard University
November 17
Architecture and Cultural Significance. The Recent Works of RMA Architects Mumbai
Rahul Mehrotra
Associate Professor, Architectural Design
MIT, School of Architecture and Planning
November 18
Part of Course 4.619: The Historiography of Islamic Architecture
“Conceptualizing Cultural Autonomy “After Essentialism”: The Case of Ottoman Aleppo” at 2 pm in 5-216.
Steve Wolf
Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History
Fordham Univ. Department of Art History and Music
RIVERSCAPES
An Exhibition of Photos of Historical Water Landscapes
Adriana de Miranda
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
Faculty of the University of Bergamo
Opening Reception November 25 from 5:30 – 7 pm
Exhibit on view until December 16
Rotch Library Gallery, 7-238
December 1
Submerged Lands: The Public Trust in Waterfront Design from Chicago to Karachi
James Wescoat
Aga Khan Professor, MIT
December 8
Renovation of Syrian Water Wheels in the Orontes Valley
Adriana de Miranda
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
Faculty of the University of Bergamo
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Spring 2008
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Fall 2007
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February 11
Modernism, Anxiety and the Ideology of Arab Vision
Stephen Sheehi
Associate Professor of Arab Culture
University of South Carolina
February 18
The Maghreb Connection: Counter-geographies in the Sahara
Ursula Biemann
Artist & Curator
Institute for Art and Design Theory
Zurich, Switzerland
March 13
A Brief Report on Contemporary Art in Syria
Anneka Lenssen
PhD Candidate and recipient of the 2007 AKPIA@MIT Travel Grant.
March 17
Arab Aesthetics Reconsidered: Art Today
Nada Shabout
Sping 2008 AKPIA@MIT Lecturer
Assistant Professor of Art History
University of North Texas
April 28
Framings of the Tradition: The Career of Miniature Painting in South Asia
Nadeem Omar Tarar
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
Assistant Professor, National College of Art
Lahore, Pakistan
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Available Bios & Abstracts
October 22
Two presentations in the Stella Room
Orientalism, Self-Orientalism and Identity Politics: The Mosque in Western Europe and North America
Nebahat Avcioglu
Visiting Associate Professor, AKPIA@MIT
Columbia University Institute for ScholarsParis, France
Mosques-to-go
Azra Aksamija
PhD Student, AKPIA@MIT
Artist Affiliate, Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT
November 19
Nebukadnezar and Saladin – The Iconography of History in Contemporary Political Representation in the Middle East
Stefan Heidemann
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
Friederich Schiller Universität
Department of Semitic Philology and Islamic Studies
Jena, Germany
November 26
Antiquarianism and Connoisseurship in 19th century Cairo: Some Reconsiderations
Mercedes Volait
Centre National de Recherche Scientifique
Paris, France
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Spring 2007
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Fall 2006
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Available Bios & Abstracts
February 12
“Mysterious” Dubai
Nadia Al-Hasani
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Architecture
American University of Sharjah, UAE
February 26
Public Works and the Public Good: Modernizing Urban Space in Ottoman Izmir
Sibel Zandi-Sayek
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Art & Art History,
College of William & Mary, Williamsburg
March 5
Open Terrains
Anuradha Mathur
Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning Department
University of Pennsylvania
Monday, March 12, 5:30 pm
2006-07 Aga Khan Travel Grant Presentations
MIT Students Recipients of the Travel Grant Award
Razan Francis AKPIA PhD
Spain: Cultural exchanges and migration of styles
Spain
Sadia Shirazi MArch
Ritual + Space: the Sufi Shrine of Shah Jamaal
Pakistan
March 15
New Town-New Life: Garden City in Translation
Esra Akcan
Graduate School of Architecture
Columbia University
March 22
Searching for Water and Wisdom in the Indo-Islamic Garden
James L. Wescoat Jr.
Landscape Architecture Department
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
April 10
Two special presentations part of the seminar
4.617: The Islamic City:
From an Orientalist Concept to a Contemporary Aspiration
Deeba Haider
Auctioning Identity to the Highest Bidder; From Bedouin to Babylon in 35 years: The Degeneration of Cultural Identity in the Urban Environment of Dubai
Ahmed Kanna
Anomalous Spaces in ‘the Orientalist Dream City’: An Unconventional Look at Dubai
May 7
Status, Gender, Privacy. The Transformation of Domestic Culture in the Beirut House, 1860-1930
Ralph Bodenstein
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
Post-Doctoral Fellow, German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Cairo
May 11
Working in Paradise,
Restoring Baghe Babur and Humayun’s Tomb Gardens
Ratish Nanda
AKTC Conservation Architect, New Delhi
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Available Bios & Abstracts
September 25
Documentary Film Presentation:
Celebrating Popular Islam in India: Short Films on Devotional Images and Rituals of Indian Muslims
Yousuf Saeed
Documentary Film Maker
New Delhi, India
October 23
Between Scholarship and Experience: The German and French Discourse on Islamic Architecture
Lorraine Declety
Ecole pratique des hautes études, Paris
Technische Universität, Dresden
November 13
Patterning Knowledge: Geometry and Islamic Art
Carol Bier
Research Associate
The Textile Museum, Washington, DC
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Spring 2006
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Fall 2005
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February 13
The Architecture of the ‘Eastern Question’: Diplomacy and Space in Late Ottoman Istanbul
Paolo Girardelli
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow, Bogaziçi University
March 13
The Citadel of Jerusalem Revisited: An Architectural and Archaeological Investigation
Mahmoud Hawari
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow, Oxford University
April 10
‘Dis-Orientalism’ – Palestinian Artists between East and West
Gannit Ankori
Harvard Divinity School
April 21 & 22
Symposium: The Mosque in the West
April 24
2005-06 Aga Khan Travel Grant Presentations
MIT Students Recipients of the Travel Grant Awards
May 15
Authenticity in Architecture: A Postcolonial Critique
Can Bilsel
University of San Diego
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October 3
The Politics of Pleasure: The Strategic Use of Umayyad Bath Complexes
Lara Tohme
Knafel Assistant Professor in the Humanities, Wellesley College
October 29
Workshop: The Mamluk Domes of Cairo
November 14
Rethinking the Pleasure Garden in the Munyas of Cordoba
Glaire Anderson
College Art Association Professional Development Fellow
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Spring 2005
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Fall 2004
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February 28
2004-05 Aga Khan Travel Grant Presentations
MIT Students Recipients of the Travel Grant Award
March 7
Muslims and the Language of the Other in the Umayyad Visual and Verbal Vocabulary of the Dome of the Rock
Abier Ziadeh Shamma
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
March 14
Architecture in Lebanon: From Modernism to Contemporary Trends
Elie Haddad
Department of Architecture Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
April 4
New Urbanism and the Heritage of the Islamic City: The Case of Jerusalem
Yosef Jabareen
AKPIA@MIT Post-Doctoral Fellow
April 11
Nation, Myth and Memory: The Reception of Ghurid Architecture East of the Indus
Alka Patel
Senior Fellow, American Institute of Indian Studies, Gujarat, India
May 6 & 7
Symposium:
Islamic Cities in the Classical Age
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Available Bios & Abstracts
October 4
Images of Sufi Leaders in Ottoman and Safavid Manuscripts
Ethel Sara Wolper
University of New Hampshire
October 25
The “Afghan Girl’ in Transnational Visual Culture
Holly Edwards
Williams College
November 1
Aestheticizing Politics and Politicizing Aesthetics: Visual Artists and the Cultural Production of Muslim Identities in NYC
Munir Jiwa
Columbia University
Aga Khan Program Post-doctoral Fellow
November 15
Rural-imperial Relations in Medieval Jordan: An Architectural Perspective from Tall Hisban
Bethany Walker
Grand Valley State University
November 22
Mediterranean Cities: Aleppo, Forms of the City Intra Moenia
Giulia Annalinda Neglia
Politecnico di Bari
Aga Khan Program Post-doctoral Fellow
December 6
Deliberating Iraq Film screening and discussion with one of the directors of “About Baghdad”
Sinan Antoon
Dartmouth College
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Spring 2004
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Fall 2003
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Available Bios & Abstracts
February 9
Public History and the Production of the “Culture of Shiraz”
Setrag Manoukian
Università di Milano-Bicocca, Milan
Aga Khan Program Post-doctoral Fellow
April 5
Strangers, Lovers and Kin: Gender Roles and their Interplay with the Architectural Delights of Awadh, India
Hussein Keshani
University of Victoria, Canada
Aga Khan Program Post-doctoral Fellow
April 12
Italian Architects in Modern Egypt
Cristina Pallini
Politecnico di Milano, Milan
Aga Khan Program Post-doctoral Fellow
March 1
DIALOGUE in Concert Program
Kinan Azmeh, Dima Orsho, Kinan Abou-Afach, Omar Al-Musfi and Issam Rafee
May 7, 8 & 9
Symposium: Harem in History & Imagination
May 10
Handwriting of the Dead: Advances in Script Identification and Synthesis
Vlad Atanasiu
École Pratique des Études Superiors, Paris
Aga Khan Program Post-doctoral Fellow
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Available Bios & Abstracts
September 29
Tell Tale – The Alphabet, Outcome of Millennia of Mayhem
Thomas Milo
President of DecoType, inc. The Netherlands
October 3
Consuming Heritage or the End of Tradition
Nezar AlSayyad
School of Architecture and Planning, University of California, Berkeley
October 6
MTV, The Middle East & Mainstream Media: Using Music and the Arts to Expose Another Side of Arab Culture
Lorraine Ali
Music Critic Newsweek Magazine
November 3
Bourdieu’s Battle in Algeria: War, Ethnosociology, Photograph
Helene Lipstadt
Research Affiliate, MIT
November 24
Photographing the Void: The Camera and the Representation of Islamic Architecture
Gary Otte
Photographer
Vancouver, Canada
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Spring 2003
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Fall 2002
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March 10
Islam on the Internet: From Private Discourse to Public Sphere
Jon W. Anderson
Department of Anthropology, Catholic University of America
Department of Arab Studies, Georgetown University
April 14
Looking for Gender and Sexuality in Qajar Visual Culture
Afsaneh Najmabadi
Departments of Women’s Studies and of History
Harvard University
April 28
“Brotherly Love”: The Safavid Household and the Index of Belonging
Sussan Babaie
Department of the History of Art
The University of Michigan
May 5
Achievement and Disaster: Ernst Herzfeld’s Excavation at Samarra 1911-1913
Thomas Leisten
Department of Art and Archaeology
Princeton University
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September 16
Individual and Community in South Asian Islam since 1850
Asha Jalal
Department of History, Tufts University
October 7
Picasso’s Reconquista
Natasha Staller
Department of Fine Arts, Amherst College
November 1
Piano and Clarinet Recital Program
Kinan Azmeh, clarinet & Rami Khalife, piano
November 18
Displaying Hierarchies: Ritual Uses of the Space at Sufi Zawiyas in Aleppo
Paulo Pinto
Visiting Professor, Fluminense Federal University, Rio de Janeiro
November 20
The Poetics of Concealment: Al-Nabulusi,s Encounter with the Dome of the Rock
Samer Akkach
AKPIA Post-Doctoral Fellow
December 2
Film: Between Prayers: Proscribed Scenes from a Historic Monument
Chala Hadimi
2002 MIT AKPIA/SMArchS Graduate
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Spring 2002
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Fall 2001
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February 11
Through the Eyes of a Child?: Looking at Persianate Painting Again
David J. Roxburgh
History of Art and Architecture
Harvard University
March 4
Practical Orientalism, Practical Occidentalism: Contesting the Islamic Heritage on Crete
Michael Herzfeld
Department of Anthropology
Harvard University
April 17
Third Spaces: On the Design Discourses Between Traditionalism and Modernism
Bulent Tanju
Aga Khan Program Post-doctoral Fellow
April 29
Describing Colossal Egypt
Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby
Department of History of Art
University of California at Berkeley
May 15
The Water Supplies and Their Impact on Urban Development in Ottoman Istanbul
Kimiyo Yamashita
Aga Khan Program Post-doctoral Fellow
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October 1
Across the Border: Making Migrants’ Spaces
Gulsum Nalbantoglu
Dept. of Interior Architecture & Environmental Design, Bilkent University, Ankara
Cancelled lecture.
October 29
The Venetian Palace and the Islamic World
Deborah Howard
St John’s College, Cambridge University
November 26
Changing Urban Enviroment: Residential and Public Architecture in late Ottoman Damascus
Stefan Weber
Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut, Damascus
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Spring 2001
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Fall 2000
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February 5
The One-which-is-two, Mosque Battles and Other Stories: Architecture, Religion and Politics in the Indonesian World
Abidin Kusno
Metropolitan Studies Program, New York University
February 12
Architecture of the Public Square: Representations of the City and City Life in Jaffa (1799-1950)
Ruba Kana’an
Barakat Trust Fellow in Islamic Art & Archeology Oriental Institute, Oxford, UK
February 19
Ruins into Monuments: Memory, Nation and Modernity in the Restoration of the Great Mosque of Damascus and the Krak des Chevaliers
Heghnar Watenpaugh
Department of Art and History, Rice University
February 26
Social Memory and Practices of Commemoration: Lahore’s Monumental Past
William J. Glover
Department of Architecture, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
March 5
The Historical Imagination: The place of Mimesis in the study of Islamic Architecture in Iran
Kishwar Rizvi
Post-Graduate Fellow, Yale University
April 23
Urban Development and Patronage of Islamic Architecture in 15th – 17th Century Ottoman Bosnia/Hercegovina
Machiel Kiel
Aga Khan Visiting Scholar, Harvard University
University of Utrecht, The Netherlands
April 24
Ottoman Expressions of Early Modernity and the Inevitable Question of Westernization
Shirine Hamadeh
NEH / ARIT Post-Doctoral Fellowship
American Research Institute in Turkey
May 1
Weaving Historical Narratives:Tuesday Beirut’s Last Mamluk Monument
Howayda Al-Harithy
Department of Architecture and Design
The American University of Beirut
May 18 & 19
Symposium:
Exploring The Frontiers of Islamic Art and Architecture
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September 25
New Mosques in Germany: Design, Identity, and Minority Status
Sabine Kraft
Architect Ludwig Althaus Firm
Philipps-Universitaet Marburg
October 17
Cultural Identities and Representation: Colonial Architecture in India
Mikikumar Desai
School of Architecture, Centre for Environment Planning and Technology (CEPT)
Novenber 13
United We Fall: Disjunction and Difference In Medieval Islamic Art
Yasser Tabbaa
Ann Arbor, Michigan
November 20
A Critique of the Mosque Institution in Malaysia
Mohamad Tajuddin Mohamad Rasdi
Dept of Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment University of Technology, Malaysia
December 4
Landscape and Ideology: Looking for Medieval Jerba
Renata Holod
History of Art, University of Pennsylvania
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