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

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

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

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

9:00: Coffee and Muffins

SESSION I: PRACTICING MODERNITIES

9:30- 11:45
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 Institute (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

SESSION II: REFRAMING MODERNISM

1:30- 3:15
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 'id celebration in 
Tanzania"

3:15: Coffee Break

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

3:30-5:00
Introduction: Prita Meier, Harvard University
PROFESSOR SALAH HASSAN, Cornell 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: 
kristinavandyke@aol.com)

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



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