Conference Announcement: "Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History 2019: Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award for Excellence in Islamic Studies"

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The conference, entitled "Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History,” is honoring the work of acclaimed architectural historian Zeynep Çelik who will be awarded the 2019 Giorgio Levi Della Vida medal for excellence in Islamic studies. Zeynep Çelik is distinguished professor of Ottoman history and architecture at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and the Federated Department of History at the NJIT and Rutgers-Newark. The Giorgio Levi Della Vida Award is given to outstanding scholars whose work has significantly and lastingly advanced the study of Islamic civilization by the Center for Near Eastern Studies (CNES) at the University of California Los Angeles. 

The conference will take place on May 30-31, 2019 at UCLA. 

For more information about the award: https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/article/202020

For more information about the conference: https://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/event/13677

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

DAY 1: Thursday, May 30, 2019

1:00-1:30 PM             Opening Remarks: Ali Behdad, Professor and John Charles Hillis Chair in Literature 
                                                & Faculty Director, UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies
                                                Award Presentation: Scott L. Waugh, Executive Vice Chancellor/Provost, UCLA

1:30-3:45 PM             Panel One: Unbounded Methodologies
                                                Moderator: Lamia Balafrej, Assistant Professor, Art History, UCLA

                                                The Virgin as Colonial Agent in 13th Century Castile
                                                Jerrilyn Dodds, Art History, Sarah Lawrence College 
 

                                                Navigational Turning Points: 
                                                Re-Imagining Eighteenth-Century North Africa in the Mediterranean
                                                Julia Clancy-Smith, History, University of Arizona
 

                                                Islamic City, Colonial City, Refugee City: 
                                                Urban Histories of Aleppo During the French Mandate
                                                Heghnar Watenpaugh, Art and Art History, University of California, Davis

4:00-4:10 PM              Keynote Introduction: Susan Slyomovics, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, 
                                                UCLA

4:10-5:00 PM             Keynote Address:
                                                Whose Modernity? Whose Imperial Order? 
                                                Jerusalem between the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early British Mandate
                                                Zeynep Çelik, Distinguished Professor of Architecture
                                                New Jersey Institute of Technology

5:00-6:00 PM              Q & A

6:00-7:00 PM              Reception


DAY 2: Friday, May 31, 2019
9:30 AM-12:30 PM Panel Two: Variations on Late Ottoman Culture
                                                Moderator: Ira Lapidus, Professor Emeritus of History, formerly Chair of the Center

                                                for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley

                                                The Atlas of Desire: Versifying Europeans in the Ottoman Empire 
                                                Selim Kuru, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, University of Washington

                                                The Forty French Singers on Tour from Marseilles to Constantinople (1845-1846): 
                                                An Ottoman Odyssey
                                                Nicolas Dufetel, Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris

                                                Les costumes populaires de la Turquie, again, but critically
                                                Edhem Eldem, History, Boğaziçi University & Collège de France

12:30-2:00 PM            Break

2:00-5:00 PM              Panel Three: Chronologies and Spaces of Containment
                                                Moderator: Diane Favro, Professor Emerita, Architecture and Urban Design, UCLA

                                                Coexisting in an Age of Genocide
                                                Ussama Makdisi, History, Rice University

                                                Crossing Paths: Medical Journeys, Imperial Surveys
                                                Burçak Özlüdil Altin, New Jersey Institute of Technology

                                                Segregating space, integrating time:
                                                Architecture and memory in a French political prison (Montluc) 
                                                Marc André, History, University of Rouen, France

                                                Toxic Territories,: France’s Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Algerian Sahara
                                                Samia Henni, Architecture, Cornell University

5:00-5:30 PM              Concluding Remarks
                                                Zeynep Çelik