October 9th, 2024 - January 22th, 2025, 5PM - 6:30PM, Hybride Event, Campus of the University of Vienna, Institute's Auditorium

 October 9th, 2024 - January 22th, 2025, 5PM - 6:30PM, Hybride Event, Campus of the University of Vienna, Institute's Auditorium

Heritage is a process: a place in the present and future given to the material and environmental cultures of the past. This lecture series focuses on heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia, with an emphasis on the processes of patrimonialization, whether perceived as positive (intellectual history, knowledge production, collection, exhibition, conservation) or negative (destruction). How are objects, built ensembles and spaces shown? What devices and discourses surround them? Whose heritage is collected, exhibited or, on the contrary, cancelled in museums and public spaces? Indeed, the destruction of works of art and monuments is also a powerful political gesture, which takes place in different contexts: protests, revolutions, destruction, wars. It also creates new realities and sometimes new artworks. What can we do with those voids and absences? How can we talk about collection history, museum conservation, but also voluntary destruction in contexts of extreme violence? Our aim is to reflect on all the frameworks that produce, display, or destroy heritage in the Middle East and Central Asia and over the long term.

Zoom-Link for the entire lecture series 
https://univienna.zoom.us/j/67173435103?pwd=WJnYkkCaTk5VRq82FQobzhfbo6TnxN.1

Meeting ID: 671 7343 5103
Passcode: 737072

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09.10.2024       
Markus Ritter (University of Vienna)
The Rise of the Concept of „Islamic Art“ (Abstract and bio)

16.10.2024       
Tara Andrews (University of Vienna)                
Scribal networks and the rescue of Armenian historiography in the seventeenth century (Abstract and bio)

23.10.2024       
Rian Thum (University of Manchester)           
When are Domes Acceptable?: Logics of Sacred Site Destruction in Chinese Central Asia (Abstract and bio)

30.10.2024       
Kristina Pfeifer (Technical University Vienna)            
Turkish Yörük Culture in Transition - Tensions of Reinvention in Vernacular Architecture (Abstract and bio)

06.11.2024       
Mazen Iwaisi (Queen’s University Belfast)
No State, no NGOs: Reflection on Families' Approach in Converting Traditional Houses into Local Museums in Palestine (Abstract and bio)

13.11.2024     
Tobias Mörike (Weltmuseum Wien)                                                      
From Ethnographic Specimen to Memory Device. Aspiring Heritage Justice in an Ethnographic Collection (Abstract and bio)

20.11.2024        
Jeremy F. Walton (University of Rijeka)         
Lessons in Laundering Violence:  Postimperial Memories of Interimperial Conflict in Istanbul and Vienna (Abstract and bio)

27.11.2024       
Mohammad Talebian (University of Tehran)    
Challenges of conservation and development in the historical center of Hamedan (Abstract and bio)

04.12.2024       
Gönül Bozoğlu (University of St. Andrews) 
Missing Heritages in Official Sites and Museums: Case of the Greek (‘Rum’) Communities of Istanbul (Abstract and bio)

11.12.2024       
Nadia Radwan (HEAD Genève)                   
Making Art for Whom? Urgency, Cancellation and Loss (Abstract und bio)

08.01.2025       
Ayşe Dilsiz Hartmuth (University of Vienna)                 
Envisioning ancientness: A closer look at cultural heritage discourses in early Republican Turkey (Abstract and bio)

15.01.2025       
Yuka Kadoi (University of Vienna)                      
Building the Islamic Art Market after 9/11: A Heritage Economy of the  21st Century (Abstract and bio)

22.01.2025        
Mahshid Sehizadeh / Mohammad S. Izadi (Bu-Ali Sina University)
Conservation or Destruction: A Review of Urban Policies towards the  Historic Areas of Iranian Cities during the last four decades (Abstract and bio)