[Discussion] Constructing the Past in the Middle East

[Gonul Pultar]

Constructing the Past in the Middle East: A Summer Institute

Held in Istanbul, Turkey / July 4-31, 2004

Monuments, religion, understanding the past, nation states, global vs. 
local: today, these topics are more than just academic.

Explore their greater meaning and significance at the Summer 2004 
Institute, held in Istanbul, Turkey.

This intensive monthlong program offers an in-depth examination of how 
objects, buildings, and institutions conserve, preserve, and recreate 
the past for diverse communities—now and for the future.

Participants and invited lecturers discuss recent critical approaches to 
national patrimony, cultural memory, reception history, and the power of 
images and buildings to mold communities. The program features a 
one-week field trip to study selected sites in Turkey.

*Topics include:*

* Representing and Appropriating the Past: Theory and Interpretation
* Seeing the Past in Selected Sites in Turkey
* Constructing the Pasts of the Middle East
* Consulting Internet Resources
* Managing the Past: The Practicalities of Monument Preservation and
Intervention


*Criteria for Participation:*

/Eligibility/

* Applications are invited from scholars with a PhD or equivalent
professional experience in art history, archaeology, antiquities
organizations, museums, conservation and monument commissions,
cultural anthropology, cultural geography, history and urban
planning.
* Full program residency and participation in day and evening
seminar activities are required.
* Fluency in spoken and written English is required since all
program activities will be conducted in English.

/Terms of Fellowship/
All successful applicants will be awarded a fellowship which features:

1. Round trip airfare
2. Lodging and meals
3. Site admissions
4. Seminar materials

For more information please send us an email 
<mailto:monument@summer.ucla.edu>.

*How To Apply*

Submit an application form and curriculum vitae by mail. Do not send by 
electronic mail. You may be called for a telephone interview by one of 
the organizers of the Institute.

An application form is available to download here 
<http://www.international.ucla.edu/cms/files/Application-Constructing-the-Past.pdf> 


**

*Application Deadline*
Applications must be postmarked by January 15, 2004.

Funded by the Getty Grant Program 
<http://www.getty.edu/grants/program.html>, in partnership with UCLA’s 
International Institute <http://www.international.ucla.edu/> and the 
Office of Summer Sessions <http://www.summer.ucla.edu/>, with 
cooperation of Istanbul Bilgi University <http://www.bilgi.edu.tr/>.

*Date Posted:* 7/16/2003



*Download Application:*
Application-Constructing-the-Past.pdf 
<http://www.international.ucla.edu/cms/files/Application-Constructing-the-Past.pdf> 



Directors

*Irene A. Bierman*
/Art History, UCLA/

*Robert S. Nelson*
/Art History and History of Culture, University of Chicago/


Lecturers

*Zeynep Çelik*
/School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology/

*Jas' Elsner*
/Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow, Corpus Christi College, Oxford/

*Derek Gregory*
/Department of Geography, University of British Columbia/

*Zahi Hawass*
/General Secretary, Supreme Council of Antiquities, Egypt/

*David Hirsch*
/Middle East Bibliographer, UCLA/

*Jukka Jokilehto*
/International Center for the Study and the Restoration of Cultural 
Property/

*Margaret Olin*
/Art History, Theory, and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of 
Chicago/