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[Gonul Pultar]

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CFP- Local Modernities: Islamic Cultural Practices..., Oct. 5, Harvard/MIT

CALL FOR PAPERS

Local Modernities: Islamic Cultural Practices as Sites of Agency, Mediation,
and Resistance

Graduate Student Symposium

Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
History, Theory, Criticism Section of the Department of Architecture, MIT
Cambridge, MA

October 5, 2002

Recent scholarship has challenged the definition of modernity as an
invention of the West that spreads with the rise of industrialism,
capitalism, the nation-state, and colonialism. Taking the disruption of this
deterministic model as a starting point, the symposium seeks to ask how the
conceptual orientation of modernity shifts once we begin to critically
consider a more complex range of locales. Specifically, the examination of
Islamic cultural practices during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
will allow us to explore alternative ways of shaping and defining what
exactly constitutes the experience of modernity.

Our focus on traditionally marginalized positions is intended to activate
the discourse on modernity and the multi-directional flows of people, goods,
ideas, and cultural practices.

The conference will serve as an opportunity to go beyond the essentializing
definition of Islamic culture as a practice firmly rooted in the past,
religious subject matter, and a geographical heartland and will also bring
into dialogue the relations between diverse modernities, including those of
the West.

We welcome abstracts dealing with case studies within and outside of the
Islamic world and methodological critiques concerning problems and
possibilities of peripheries.

Abstracts should be no more than 250 words and be received by May 15, 2002.
Please submit abstracts via mail or email to:

Kristina Van Dyke
Department of the History of Art and Architecture
Harvard University
485 Broadway
Sackler Museum
Cambridge, MA 02138
kristinavandyke@aol.com


Prita Meier, Ph.D. candidate and
Kristina Van Dyke, Ph.D. candidate
Department of the History of Art and Architecture,
Harvard University

Sarah Rogers, Ph.D. candidate
Department of Architecture,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology


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