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2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000 and before
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
_________________________________________________________
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 25th, 2008 from 5,30 – 7 pm
Exhibit on view until December 16th
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
_________________________________________________________
- or - 
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
_________________________________________________________
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
_________________________________________________________
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
Presentations by MIT graduate students recipients of the 2006-07 AKPIA@MIT Travel Grants
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
_________________________________________________________
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
_________________________________________________________
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
AKPIA Travel Grant Presentations
MIT Graduate Students recipients of the 2005-06 Aga Khan Travel Grants
May 15
Authenticity in Architecture: A Postcolonial Critique
Can Bilsel
University of San Diego
_________________________________________________________
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
_________________________________________________________
February 28
AKPIA@MIT Travel Grant Presentations
Students recipients of the 2004 AKPIA@MIT Travel Grant Awards
March 7
Muslims and the Language of the Other in the Umayyad Visual and Verbal Vocabulary of the Dome of the Rock
Dr. 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
_________________________________________________________
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 Ira
Film screening and discussion with one of the directors of "About Baghdad"
Sinan Antoon
Dartmouth College
_________________________________________________________
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
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
_________________________________________________________
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
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
Between Prayers: Proscribed Scenes from a Historic Monument
Film by Chala Hadimi
2002 MIT AKPIA/SMArchS Graduate
_________________________________________________________
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
_________________________________________________________
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
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
