PAST CONFERENCES

 

2007
2006
2005
2004
2001
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994

 

Spring 2007

April 26 - 28
Deus (e)X Historia
A Conference Exploring Divinity and Reason
in the Production of Knowledge

An HTC@MIT Symposium, co-sponsored by AKPIA@MIT

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Spring 2006

April 21 & 22
Symposium:
The Mosque in the West


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Fall 2005 (back to top)

October 29
Workshop:
The Mamluk Domes of Cairo

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Spring 2005

May 6 & 7
Symposium:
Islamic Cities in the Classical Age

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Spring 2004 (back to top)

May 7, 8 & 9
Symposium:
Harem in History & Imagination

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Spring 2001 (back to top)


May 18 & 19
Symposium:
Exploring The Frontiers of Islamic Art and Architecture


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Fall 1998 (back to top)

October 5
Roundtable Discussion:
From the Personal to the Public: An Individual Experience in
Restoring Traditional Buildings
Sheikha Hussah al-Sabah, Director, Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyya, Kuwait
With David Friedman, Attilio Petruccioli, Nasser Rabbat

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Spring 1998

April 29
Roundtable Discussion:
Urban Preservation and Historic Value

Francoise Choay, Stanford Anderson, John de Monchaux, David Friedman, Attilio Petruccioli, William Porter, Nasser Rabbat

May 2
Roundtable Discussion:
The Sacred in Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism

Rupinder Singh (Corbu's Chandigarh)
Kazi Khaleed Ashraf (In the Works of Correa and Doshi)
Shakeel Hossain ("Rubanism" - The New Ethnic Urban)

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Fall 1997 (back to top)

December 12
Roundtable Discussion:
Sustainable Heritage: A Round Table on Culture, Preservation and Development: The Dead Cities of the Limestone Massif (Syria)
Attilio Petruccioli, Reinhard Goethert, Stanford Anderson, David Friedman, Dennis Frenchman, Nasser Rabbat, Renata Holod (University of Pennsylvania), Thomas Leisten (Princeton University), Linda Schilcher (University of Arkansas), Frank McGuire (Frank McGuire AIA, Boston)

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Fall 1996 (back to top)

September
Conference:
Urban Triumph or Urban Disaster?
Dilemmas of Contemporary Post-War Reconstruction
Organized by Jon Calame and Esther Charlesworth

October
Roundtable Discussion:
From Antiquity to Islam in the Cities of al-Andalus and al-Mashriq

Organized by Nasser Rabbat and Attilio Petruccioli

November
Conference:
Bukhara: The Myth and the Architecture

Organized by Attilio Petruccioli
Proceedings

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Spring 1996

April
Conference:
Rethinking the XIXth Century Town:
The Morphogenesis of the Urban Fabric
Organized by Attilio Petruccioli
Proceedings

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Fall 1995 (back to top)

November
Roundtable Discussion:
From Classic to Arab Cities:
Urbanism in the Levant During the Medieval Period

Organized by Nasser Rabbat and Attilio Petruccioli
With: Irene Bierman UCLA, Renata Holod UPenn, Thomas Leisten Princeton, Scott Redford Georgetown and MIT Professors Stanford Anderson, Nassar Rabbat & Attilio Petruccioli.

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Spring 1995

April
Conference:
Typological Process and Design Theory

Organized by Attilio Petruccioli
Proceedings

May
Roundtable Discussion:
The Preservation and Developments of the Moroccan Medina:
The Case of Essaouira

Sponsored by the AKP and the Moroccan Studies Program at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

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Fall 1994 (back to top)

November
Conference:
From Place to Type:
Theory and Design of Gardens During the Time of Great Muslim Empires
Organized by Attilio Petruccioli
Proceedings in January 1997 as a special issue of Muqarnas

November
Conference:

Expressions of Identity:
The Architecture of Islamic Centers in North America
Organized Hasan-Uddin Khan
With: Jerrilyn Dodds NYU, Renata Holod UPenn, Syed Gulzar Haider Carleton University, Akel Kahera Princeton, Latif Abdul Malik Princeton. From MIT: Sibel Bozdogan, Nassar Rabbat,Attilio Petruccioli, Omar Khalidi, Khalil Pirani, and Hasan-Uddin Khan. Architects:   Mokhless Al-Hariri, Michael Keselica, Javed Sultan, Richard Shepard, Anwar Hossain, Ilhan Zeybekoglu, Javid Malek.

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Spring 1994

March
Conference:
Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey
Organized by Sibel Bozdogan
Book from the University of Washington Press, 1997