Thursday 26 June 2008 in Ankara, Turkey
METU @ School of Architecture


9.00 – 9.15        Opening & Welcome: Ali Uzay Peker & Recep Boztemur

9.15 – 9:45    Ian Coller, The University of Melbourne
Anomalous Spaces: Modernity, Identity and the Echelles du Levant

9.45 – 10:15    Yasin Ceylan, Middle East Technical University
Philosophy of Religion and Rationalization of Faith: an Intellectual Movement in the Western World during the Enlightenment and its Impact on the Muslim World

10:15 – 10:45        Nilay Kayaalp, Bahçeşehir University 
Affirmation of ‘Novelty’ and the Concept of ‘Visibility’
                                   
10:45 – 11:00        Coffee / Tea Break

11.00 – 11:30    Recep Boztemur, Middle East Technical University
The Nineteenth Century Ideological Change in the Fertile Crescent

11.30 – 12:00    Samet Bagce, Middle East Technical University
Considering Modernity through the Standardization of Time

12.00 – 12:30        Esin Kahya, Ankara University
An Evaluation of the Development of Medical Sciences in the Early Ottoman Period

12:30 – 1:30        Lunch
                     
1:30 – 2:00        Ali Uzay Peker, Middle East Technical University
Design in the Age of Probing: Eighteenth Century Transformation in Ottoman Architecture

2.00 – 2:30    Hani al-Huneidi, The University of Petra 
The Urban Development of Damascus in the Seventeenth Century

2.30 – 3:00        Samer Akkach, The University of Adelaide
The Wine of Babel: Landscape, Gender, and Poetry in Early Modern Damascus
                     
3.00 – 3.15        Afternoon Tea
                   
3:15 – 4:30        Roundtable Discussion
4:30 – 4:45        Closing Remarks: Samer Akkach
4:45 – 5:30        Drinks
                   
One-day workshop organized jointly by The Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture, The University of Adelaide, Graduate Program in Architectural History and Graduate Program in Middle East Studies,
Middle East Technical University (METU).

Organizers:  Assoc. Prof. Samer Akkach ► Assoc. Prof.  Ali Uzay Peker ► Assoc. Prof. Recep Boztemur

Program as JPG