METU GRADUATE PROGRAM IN ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
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Architectural History Lectures: METU talks AH
METU Graduate Program in Architectural History organizes a series of talks on architectural history. The lectures aim to provide a ground of knowledge and discussion about current research on different study fields of architectural history. Starting from 2004, a total of 11 lectures were given by architectural historians and academicians in related disciplines of architecture, history, art history and archaeology.
1. Bülent Batuman, Binghamton University (December 15, 2004) “Subjects of Monumentality: Making Bourgeios Identity in Early Republican Ankara”
2. Veronica Kalas, METU (February 25, 2005) “Rock-Cut Architecture from Byzantine Cappadocia: Mansions or Monasteries?”
3. Scott Redford (March 7, 2005) “Medieval Anatolia: ‘Christian’ and ‘Muslim’ in Konya”
4. Cana Bilsel, METU (October 10, 2005) “Impressions from two Minoan Sites in Crete: Knossos and Phaistos”
5. Nicholas Cahill (November 15, 2005) “Imperial temples and Worship in Sardis”
6. Zeynep Yürekli Görkay (November 21, 2005) “Spolia in Ottoman Architecture: A Trademark of the Gazis”
7. Hugh Elton (December 5, 2005) “Göksu Archeological Project 2002-2005”
8. Davide Deriu, METU (December 16, 2005) “‘Another and More Modern World’: The London Underground between History and Myth”
9. Nancy Stieber (January 5, 2006) “The City Viewed from Above and Below”
10. Ahmet Ersoy, Boğaziçi University (February 20, 2006) “In and Out of the Orientalist Genre: The Reconstruction of History in Osman Hamdi Bey’s Paintings”
11. Paul Beelitz (March 20, 2007) “How a 19th Century System Benefits a 21st Century System at the American Museum of Natural History”
12. Paolo Girardelli (May 14, 2007) “The Space of Diplomacy: Architecture and Power Balances in İstanbul, 1774-1919”
13. Burak Erdim (March24, 2008) “From Empire to Republic: Continuities of Ottoman Socio-Spatial Practices in the Modern Capital of the Early Turkish Republic”
14. Meltem Gürel (April 14, 2008), “Bathroom as a Modern Space”
15. Mehmet Ali Ataç (April 28, 2008), “The ‘Edges of the Earth’ in Assyrian Imperial Monuments”
16. Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım (May 9, 2008), “The Ottoman Imperial Museum’s Excavation of an Islamic Site in Syria”
17. Ufuk Serin (May 16, 2008), “Byzantine Ankara and the Transformation of the Temple of Rome and Augustus”
Architectural History Conference
METU Graduate Program in Architectural History organizes conferences in order to bring together national and international academicians to discuss current historical research on architectural topics.
1. Rethinking Architectural Historiography (2004)
Architectural History Doctorate Research Symposium [Doktora Araştırmaları Sempozyumu]
METU Graduate Program in Architectural History organizes a series of graduate symposia, which are open to doctorate students and researchers who have recently completed their Ph.D. studies. The symposia aim to bring together and discuss current historical research on space and the consequent knowledge produced on architectural history, which are informed by contemporary debates of the discipline. Proceedings of the symposia are published.
1. The Ottoman Spaces/ Times/ Peoples [Osmanlı'da Mekanlar/ Zamanlar/ İnsanlar] (1999)
Proceedings edited by Ali Uzay Peker (Ankara: ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Yayınları, 2002)2. Spaces/ Times/ Peoples of the Republic [Cumhuriyet'in Mekanları/ Zamanları/ İnsanları] (2001)
Proceedings edited by Elvan Altan Ergut & Bilge İmamoğlu (forthcoming)3. Spaces/Times/Peoples of the Ancient Age [Eski Cag'da Mekanlar/ Zamanlar/ İnsanlar] (2003)
Proceedings edited by Lale Özgenel İstanbul: Homer ve ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Yayınları, 2005)4. Spaces/Times/Peoples: Gender, Sexuality and Architectural History [Mekanlar/Zamanlar/İnsanlar: Toplumsal Cinsiyet, Cinsellik ve Mimarlik Tarihi] (2005)
Proceedings edited by Belgin Turan Özkaya (forthcoming)5. Spaces/Times/Peoples: Identity, Sense of Belonging and Architectural History [Mekanlar/Zamanlar/İnsanlar: Kimlik, Aidiyet ve Mimarlik Tarihi] (2007)
Proceedings edited by Çağla Caner & Ceren Katipoğlu (forthcoming)Architectural History Workshop
METU Graduate Program in Architectural History organizes workshops in order to bring students together with national and international academicians to discuss current historical research on architectural topics.
1.Ambivalent Geographies of Architectural History: ANKARA WORKSHOP on the late Ottoman and the Republican Periods in a Comparative Context (April 28, 2006)
- Suna Güven (Head of the Graduate Program in Architectural History, METU)Opening Remarks
- Wendy Shaw, The Museum as Frame: Museum Architecture and the Framing of Art through Turkish Museums
- Elvan Altan Ergut (Dept. of Architecture, METU), Exhibiting (for) the “Nation”: Early Republican Buildings of Display in Ankara
- Haluk Zelef (Dept. of Architecture, METU), Representations of “Turkish Identity” Abroad: “West” in the “East”, “East” in the “West”
- Patricia A. Morton (Dept. of Art History, University of California), Representations of National Identity at World Fairs
- Doris Behrens-Abouseif (Dept. of Art and Archaeology, SOAS), Architectural Styles and Political Identity in Ottoman Egypt
- Stephen Legg (Dept. of Geography, University of Nottingham), Imperial Architecture and Colonial Improvement: Istanbul and Delhi
- Namık Erkal (Dept. of Architecture, METU), 19th Century Urban Transformations along the Istanbul Harbor: What Happened to the Golden Horn Fortifications?
- Cânâ Bilsel (Dept. of Architecture, METU), The Experience of Urbanism in Two Major Cities of Turkey in the Early Republican Period: Henri Prost’s Planning of İzmir and İstanbul
- Belgin Turan Özkaya (Dept. of Architecture, METU), What is in a Name? Thoughts on Ottoman Historiography
- Dana Arnold (Dept. of Archaeology, University of Southampton), Concluding Remarks
2. Architectural History Workshop (May 2-4, 2007)
Dana Arnold, Southampton University
- (Auto)-Biographies and Space
- Making London’s Modernity: capital, memory and nature
- Panoptic visions, or possessing the metropolis
3. Modern Architecture of the Interwar Period in Comparative Perspective (November 21, 2007)
- İnci Aslanoğlu, METU - “Modern Architecture in Turkey”
- Ivan Nevzgodin, TUDelft - “Modern Architecture in the USSR”
- Jan Molema, TUDelft - “Modern Architecture in the Netherlands”
Architectural History Exhibition
1. Yurdda İmar Hareketleri, MİMAR-ARKİTEKT Dergisi’nden Sayfalar 1931-1950), Curator: Elvan Altan Ergut (November 11-12, 2004)
2. The New Movement in the Netherlands 1924-1936, Curator: Jan Molema (November 19-30, 2007)
1. Cappadocia Tour, March 2004.