Friday, November 21, 2014
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
Ashraf Abdallah, Senan Abdelqader, Nadia Abu-El-Haj, Mohammad al-Asad, Suad Amiry, George Arbid, Mohamed Elshahed, Yasser Elsheshtawy, Rania Ghosn, Saba Innab, Ziad Jamaleddine, Ahmed Kanna, Bernard Khoury, Laura Kurgan, Adrian Lahoud, Ali Mangera, Reinhold Martin, Magda Mostafa, Nicolai Ouroussoff, Nasser Rabbat, Hashim Sarkis, Felicity Scott, Hala Warde, Enrique Walker, Mark Wasiuta, Eyal Weizman, Mabel Wilson, and Gwendolyn Wright
Opening Remarks by Lila Abu-Lughod and Safwan Masri
Keynote by Timothy Mitchell
Organized by Dean Amale Andraos and Nora Akawi Studio-X Amman
with Columbia Global Centers | Middle East, Middle East Institute, and Studio-X Istanbul with supporting partners Qatar Foundation and Aramex
Opening Remarks for Afternoon Sessions
Lila Abu Lughod, Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science and Director of the Middle East Institute at Columbia University
Session 3
Ashraf Abdalla, Doctoral Candidate, Columbia University GSAPP
Su’ad Amiry, Founder, Riwaq Center for Architectural Conservation
Rania Ghosn, Assistant Professor of Architecture, School of Architecture and Planning, MIT
Ahmed Kanna, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of the Pacific
Respondents:
Nadia Abu-El-Haj, Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College, and Co-Director, Center for Palestine Studies, Columbia University
Reinhold Martin, Associate Professor of Architecture, Columbia University GSAPP
http://events.gsapp.org/event/architecture-and-representation-the-arab-city