Department of Architecture and Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture are jointly organizing a one-day symposium entitled “Cities and Islamisms: The Politics and Production of Architecture

Cities and Islamisms:
The Politics and the Production of Architecture

October 4, 2019

Session 1: 9:30-10:30 (Room FB-309)
Bülent Batuman (Bilkent University)
Islamisms and the Built Environment: Notes for a Research Agenda

Respondent: Alev Çınar (Bilkent University)

Coffee break 10:30-11:00

Session 2: 11:00-12:30 (Room FB-309)
Pamela Karimi (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth),
Saba Madani (Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran)
Monument to Islamic Utopian Thought: Hosseiniyeh Ershad in Tehran

Ward Vloeberghs (Erasmus University College, Rotterdam)
Moderate Islamism in Lebanon? Crafting Beirut’s Cityscape

Respondent: Güven Arif Sargın (Middle East Technical University)

Lunch Break 12:30-13:30

Session 3: 13:30-15:00 (Room HZ-32B)
Farhan Karim (University of Kansas)
Islamic Pop and Pakistan’s Self-Orientalization

Bülent Batuman (Bilkent University)
“Turkish House” Abroad: Islamist Self-Orientalism and Architecture of Diplomacy

Respondent: Neşe Gurallar (Gazi University)

Session 4: 15:30-17:00 (Room HZ-32B)
Anar Valiyev (ADA University, Baku)
Mosques for Glory: Religion and Architecture in Chechnya, Dagestan and Azerbaijan

Khairul Hazmi Zaini, (Universiti Putra Malaysia)
Contesting Visions of Modernity: The Case of Tanjung Bunut Mosque

Respondent: Berin Gür (TED University)