Council on Middle East Studies Colloquium Day Long Symposium: Topographies of Culture: Heritage, Art, and Urbanism in the Gulf Region

Event time: 
Friday, September 12, 2014 - 9:00am to 6:30pm
Location: 
Jeffery H. Loria Center for the History of Art See map
190 York St.
New Haven, CT 06520
Event description: 

The Council on Middle East Studies presents:

Graduate Student Symposium: Topographies of Culture: Heritage, Art, and Urbanism in the Gulf Region

9:00 Welcome Remarks

  • Kishwar Rizvi, Associate Professor of Islamic Architecture, History of Art, Yale

9:20-11:30 Panel 1: Topologies of Place

  • Andrew Ruff (MED, Yale School of Architecture): “A Line in the Desert: Cultural Urbanism in Doha”
  • Megan Sajewski (PhD, History of Art): “From a Hole to an Island: The Construction of Cultural Heritage in Qatar”
  • William Harper (PhD, History of Art): “The Field and the Museum: The Development of Archaeology and the Sharjah Archaeology Museum within the Heritage Sector of the UAE”
  • Emily Sessions (PhD, History of Art): “Expo 2020 as Engine of Celebration”
  • Moderator: Keller Easterling, Professor, Yale School of Architecture

11:50-1:00 Panel 2: National Interventions

  • Alexandra Morrison (PhD, History of Art): “The Authority of Women, Culture, and Education: QMA’s Crisis in Qatar”
  • Katherine Fein (BA, History): “Postcards of Progress: Foreign Women and Art Museums in the Gulf”
  • Moderator: Carol Armstrong, Professor, History of Art, Yale

1:00-2:00 Lunch Break

2:00-3:40 Panel 3: Strategies of Exhibition

  • Shabnam Rahimi-Golkhandam (PhD, History of Art, Islamic Art and Architecture): “Contemporary Art ‘of Iran’ and Its Dubai Connection”
  • Nicole Demby (PhD, History of Art, Modern and Postwar Art): “Spatial Products of the Art World: Art Dubai”
  • Caitlin Woolsey (PhD, History of Art, Modern and Contemporary Art): “Place as Provisional: Artist Commissions at the Sharjah Art Foundation”
  • Moderator: Craig Buckley, Professor, History of Art, Yale

4:00-5:30 Roundtable Discussion: Contemporary Tactics in Art and Architecture

  • Iftikhar Dadi, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art, Cornell University
  • Yolande Daniels, studio SUMO
  • Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor and the Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT
  • Moderator: Kishwar Rizvi, History of Art, Yale University

5:30-6:30 Closing Reception

Sponsor(s):
Sponsored by the Council on Middle East Studies at the MacMillan Center, the Dean’s Fund for Research Workshops, Seminars and Colloquia, Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, and the History of Art Program

Admission: 
Free
Open to: 
General Public