[LCM Events] AKPIA Symposium: ISLAMIC CITIES IN THE CLASSICAL AGE

[Philippe Saad]

>ISLAMIC CITIES IN THE CLASSICAL AGE
>a symposium sponsored by
>The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT
>
>This symposium will bring together leading historians, archaeologists, art 
>and architectural historians of late Antiquity and Early Islam to assess 
>the current state of our knowledge on the context of urbanism in that 
>transitional period.  The focus will be on the urban development and 
>cultural climate of the nascent Islamic world from the eve of the Islamic 
>conquests through the early Abbasid period (7-10 century).
>
>FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2005
>2:00 - 5:30
>
>SATURDAY, MAY 7, 2005
>10:00 - 12:30 & 2:00 - 6:00
>
>MIT room 6-120
>MAP: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=6-120&mapsearch=go
>
>
>Event is free and open to the public.
>For information: call 617 253 1400 or e-mail <akpiarch at mit.edu> or on  the 
>web  http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/symposium05.html
>
>__________________________________________________________________________
>
>PROGRAM
>
>FRIDAY, MAY 6
>2:00 - 5:30
>
>Irfan Shahid
>Georgetown University
>The Arab Background, Islamic and Pre-Islamic, of Umayyad Urbanism in Bilad 
>al-Sham
>
>Annabel Wharton
>Duke University
>Classical Jerusalem and Its Post Classical Apparition
>
>Hugh Kennedy
>University of St Andrews
> From Shahristan to Medina
>
>SATURDAY, MAY 7
>10:00 - 12:30
>
>Stefan Heidemann
>Friedrich-Schiller-Universitaet, Jena
>Shaping an Imperial Metropolis: Al-Raqqa - Al-Rafiqa
>
>Frank Trombley
>Cardiff University
>Towns and their Territories in Egypt and Syria: An iInterregional Comparison
>
>Alan G. Walmsley
>University of Copenhagen
>Mosques-Money-Memory. The Placement of Mosques and Their Impact on Towns 
>in Early Islamic Bilad al-Sham
>
>2:00 - 6:00
>
>Chase Robinson
>University of Oxford
>Baghdad, Samarra and Abbasid Authority
>
>Marcus Milwright
>The University of Victoria
>Industrial Zones and the Urban Space in the Early Abbasid Period: The Case 
>of Raqqa, Syria
>
>Alastair Northedge
>Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne)
>'Askar al-Mu'tasim: An Analysis of the Central City of Samarra
>
>Donald Whitcomb
>The University of Chicago
>Archaeology in "The Places where Men Pray Together"
>
>Symposium organized by Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor at MIT
>
>
>
>--
>Jose Luis Arguello
>Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
>
>MIT, 10-390
>77 Massachusetts Ave.
>Cambridge, MA  02139  USA
>
>Phone: 617-253-1400
>Fax: 617-258-8172
>
>Aga Khan Program Web Site: http://web.mit.edu/akpia/www/
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