Fwd: LOCAL MODERNITIES
CONFERENCE
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:
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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
