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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:
kristinavandykeaol.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