Roundtable Resurgence of the “Islamic City” in the 20th and 21st Centuries — New York, 30 April 2024
Roundtable: Resurgence of the “Islamic City” in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Tuesday, April 30, 2024 | 5 PM – 7PM | Kevorkian Center Library
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The “Islamic city” as a monolithic concept and formation has been framed as a dead-end historical subject of study invented in the European imagination since the 19th century. Yet, critiques of Orientalism have not quelled an expectation that the resurgence of Islamic beliefs and politics would usher in a new phase of Islamic urbanism, particularly in Muslim theocracies such as Iran, but also Turkey and the Gulf. While urban historians critique and deconstruct the historical notion of the Islamic city as an orientalist creation, emerging Islamic states see the Islamic city in much more concrete terms, and, in fact, long for its recreation within the modern reality of Muslim majority cities. However, while those spatial strategies and architectural references are legible and dissectible to architectural historians, they might not always be as identifiable to the users of such spaces. In this roundtable, architectural and urban historians of the contemporary Middle East will discuss the complexities, challenges, successes or failures of such attempts at a revived and instrumentalized notion of Islamic urbanism over the past fifty years coinciding with the rise of political Islam in the region.
Zohreh Soltani is an Assistant Professor, Art, Art History and Architecture at Ithaca College. Soltani’s research interests include architectural history, theory and design, modern architecture of the Islamic world, public space and power relations, and socio-political transformation of space in post-conflict societies.
Ipek Türeli is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Architectures of Spatial Justice (Tier 2) at the Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture at McGill University. Her recent research interests include low-income housing and participatory design, civil protest and urban design, and campus landscapes and race.
Burak Erdim is an Associate Professor of Architecture and the Coordinator for the Graduate Concentration in the History and Theory of Architecture at North Carolina State University. His research examines the operations of transnational networks of housing and planning during the twentieth century within contexts of decolonization, national liberation, and globalization, as well as in relation to discourses and political economies of development.
Emily Neumeier is a historian of Islamic art and architecture who studies the visual and spatial cultures of the eastern Mediterranean, with a focus on the Ottoman Empire. Her research and teaching cover a wide range of material to address issues of architecture and urbanism, cultural heritage and antiquarianism, Islamic calligraphy and the arts of the book, and transnational networks of mobility and exchange.
Jennifer Pruitt is the Howard and Ellen Louise Schwartz Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at UW-Madison. Pruitt is a historian of Islamic art and architecture with a focus on the Arabic-speaking world. In both research and teaching, she is driven by a central question: how do multi-faith, diverse populations in the Arabic-speaking world patronize, utilize, and respond to their built environment?
Berin Golonu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art, College of Arts and Sciences at Berin Golonu. Golonu’s research interests include Ottoman art and visual culture, modern and contemporary art from Turkey, art and ecology, and photographic histories of the Middle East.
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Chargé de diffusion scientifique (24 avril 2024). Roundtable Resurgence of the “Islamic City” in the 20th and 21st Centuries — New York, 30 April 2024. IISMM. Consulté le 10 octobre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/w9k8
