[Bilimsel Haber] CONF.- Architectural Heritage of the 'Lands of Rum, ' May 2006, Harvard University

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CONF.- Architectural Heritage of the 'Lands of Rum,' May 2006, Harvard Univ.

Please note the forthcoming symposium, Historiography and Ideology:
Architectural Heritage of the 'Lands of Rum,' May 11-13, 2006, organized
by Gulru Necipoglu and Sibel Bozdogan under the auspices of the Aga Khan
Program at the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard
University.

The symposium will begin on the evening of May 11th at the Inn at
Harvard (Cambridge, Massachusetts) and continue on the 12th and 13th at
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Cambridge, Massachusetts).
For program details and the registration form please go to the Program
web site: http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~agakhan/index2.html

Please send your registration form with check payment made out to
'Harvard University' for the conference fee of $70 (covering opening
night reception and lunches on May 12th and 13th) to the Aga Khan
Program by Friday, April 14th.

Should you have any further questions, please contact Ruth MacQuiddy,
Aga Khan Program Coordinator, at agakhan at fas.harvard.edu.

We look forward to your attendance.

Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Harvard University
Sackler Museum, Room 412
485 Broadway Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA

Phone: 617-495-2355
Fax: 617-496-8389
Email: agakhan at fas.harvard.edu


Conference Program:

Historiography and Ideology: Architectural Heritage of the 'Lands Of Rum'

A symposium sponsored by the Aga Khan Program at Harvard University and
the Aga Khan Trust for Culture in Geneva, May 11-13, 2006

Thursday, May 11

Keynote Lecture and reception at the Inn at Harvard, 1201 Massachusetts
Avenue, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA 02138

6:00-7:00pm
Introduction (Gulru Necipoglu and Sibel Bozdogan)
Cemal Kafadar, State Building, Globalization, and History in the Lands
of Rum

7:00-9:00
Open Reception

Friday, May 12

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 136 Irving Street, Cambridge, MA
02138 (in the Auditorium).

Session I
Arab, Persian, or Turkish? Scholarship on the Lands of Rum and Beyond
(David Roxburgh, Discussant)

8:00-9:00
Coffee and Registration

9:00-9:30
Heghnar Watenpaugh, The Legacy of Ottoman Architecture in the Former
Arab Provinces

9:35-10:05
Kishwar Rizvi, Arthur Upham Pope and the "Survey of Persian Art":
Exploring the Discourses on Iranian Art and Architecture in the Early
Twentieth Century

10:10-10:40
Oya Pancaroglu, Gateways to Medieval Anatolia: Crossing the Impasses of
Architectural Historiography

10:45-11:15
Barry Flood, Lost in Translation? Architectural Historiographies of the
Eastern 'Turks'

11:15-11:30
Break

11:30-12:00
Discussion

12:00-2:00
Lunch (catered for all registered participants at the Academy)

Session II
Islamic, Turkish, or Modern? Historiographies of Ottoman Architecture
(Zeynep Celik, Discussant)

2:00-2:30
Ahmet Ersoy, Architecture and the Search for Ottoman Origins in the Late
Tanzimat Period

2:35-3:05
Gulru Necipoglu, The Creation of a National Genius: Sinan and the
Historiography of 'Classical' Ottoman Architecture

3:10-3:40
Shirine Hamadeh, Westernization, Decadence, and the Ottoman Baroque:
Modern Constructions of the Eighteenth Century

3:45-4:15
Sibel Bozdogan, Reading Ottoman Architecture through Modernist Lenses:
Nationalism and the "New Architecture" in the Early Republic

4:15-4:30
Break

4:30-5:00
Discussion

Saturday, May 13
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 136 Irving Street, Cambridge, MA
02138 (in the Auditorium).

Session III
Impact of Historiographies on Institutional Practices: Archaeology,
Museology, And Preservation In Modern Turkey
(Renata Holod, Discussant)

8:30-9:00
Coffee and Registration

9:00-9:30
Can Bilsel, 'Our Anatolia': the Making of the 'Humanist Culture' in Turkey

9:35-10:05
Scott Redford, Islamic Archaeology in Turkey

10:10-10:40
Wendy Meryem Shaw, Preservation/Projection: Museums and National
Identity in the Republic of Turkey

10:45-11:15
Nur Altinyildiz, Contextualizing the Byzantine and Ottoman Architectural
Legacy: Istanbul in the 1920s and 1950s

11:15-11:30
Break

11:30-12:00
Discussion

12:00-2:00
Lunch (catered for all registered participants at the Academy)

2:00-4:00
Open Discussion (Council Room)




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