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A Graduate Symposium
Department of Architecture, MIT
History of Art and Architecture Department, Harvard University

LOCAL MODERNITIES: ISLAMIC CULTURAL PRACTICES AS SITES OF AGENCY, 
MEDIATION, AND CHANGE

Saturday, October 5th, 2002
at
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Mass. Ave, Room 1-390
  Cambridge, MA
617.258.8438

Free and Open to the Public



9:00: Coffee and Muffins


9:30- 11:45 Session I: PRACTICING MODERNITIES

Discussant: Professor Arindam Dutta, MIT
Introduction: Sarah Rogers, MIT

Aykan Erdemir, Harvard University
"Alternative Modernities? 'Modern' Alevis and Alevi Alternatives"

Ifdikhar Dadi, Cornell University
"Word and Image in Modern Islamic Art."

  Ibra Sene, Michigan State University
"Hizbut Tarqiyya: On Islamic Youth and Alternative Modernity in 
Senegal (1975-2000)"

Babak Rahimi, European University Insitute (Italy)
"Ritual, Public Sphere, and Islamic Modernity: The Native Politics of 
Muharram Ceremonies in the Iranian Port-City of Bushehr"


12:00- 1:15: Lunch


1:30- 3:15 Session II: REFRAMING MODERNISM

Discussant: Professor Sibel Bozdogan, University of California, Berkeley
Introduction: Kristina Van Dyke, Harvard University

Talinn Grigor, MIT
"The (meta)Morphosis of a Modernism: The Use/Misuse of Pahlavi 
Monuments in Revolutionary Iran, 1934-1987"

Michelle Rein, University of Pennsylvania
"Fouq Figuig: Sanctity, Sacriledge, and Spolia Between the Gateway to 
Paradise and the Ends of the Earth."

Gerard van de Bruinhorst, International Institute for the Study of 
Islam in the Modern World
"Muslims, Moons, and Modernities: Islamic discourses on ëid 
celebration in Tanzania."



3:15 Coffee Break


3:30-5:00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Professor Salah Hassan, Cornell University
Introduction: Prita Meier, Harvard University


Organized by: Prita Meier and Kristina Van Dyke, Dept. of Art and Art 
History, Harvard University, and Sarah Rogers, History, Theory, and 
Criticism Section of the Dept. of Architecture, MIT (contact: 
[log in to unmask])

Sponsored by: The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at 
Harvard University and MIT, Dept. of Architecture, MIT, and the 
School of Humanities, MIT

Special Thanks to: Nasser Rabbat, Gulru Necipoglu, Philip Khoury, 
Stanford Anderson, Arindam Dutta, Sibel Bozdogan, Deborah Kully, 
Rebecca Chamberain, Jack Valleli, Jon Rucket


-- 
Anne Deveau, administrative assistant
History, Theory & Criticism Section
Department of Architecture
School of Architecture & Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, 10-303
Cambridge, MA 01239
617-258-8438