Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in the Building of Baghdad
Thursday, September 18
Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
6:30PM–8:00PM
Keynote Panel Discussion: War and Urbanism
- "Crises of Territorial Integrity: Iraq and Nigeria"
Stuart Elden, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick. - "Destroyers & Builders”
Todd Reisz, Yale School of Architecture. - Commentators: Diane Davis and Pierre Belanger, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
- Moderator: Neil Brenner, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
Friday, September 19
Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
9:00AM–9:15AM
Welcome Remarks
- Diane Davis, Professor of Urbanism and Development, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate.
- Łukasz Stanek, Manchester Architecture Research Center.
9:15AM–9:45AM
Morning Plenary: Nationalism, Arabism, and Now What?
- Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Sponsored by: Aga Khan Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
9:45AM–11:00AM
Panel 1: Baghdad in Regional, National, and Global Context
- "Adventures in Baghdad—Constantinos A. Doxiadis, the Science of Ekistics and Cold War Politics"
M. Christine Boyer, Princeton University School of Architecture. - "Beyond the Dam: The Emergence of the 'Serifa-Dweller' in 1950s Baghdad"
Huma Gupta, MIT School of Architecture and Planning. - "Planning and Politics in Ba'thi Iraq"
Kanan Makiya, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University. - "The Influence of Politics on Urban Development: The Past, Present, and Future of Baghdad"
Alaa Al-Tamimi, former Mayor of Baghdad (2004–2005), President at Urban Reform Center Inc., Toronto. - Chair: Roger Owen, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University
11:00AM–12:45PM
Panel 2: Modernism in Baghdad: Applied, Adapted, Abandoned
- "A Belated Garden City in the Desert: Baghdad's Master Plan of the 1950s"
Neil Levine, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University - "Architects, Planners and Construction Companies from Socialist Countries in Iraq, 1958–1991: Modernism and the Labor of Adaptation"
Łukasz Stanek, Manchester Architecture Research Center. - "Early 50s Baghdad: Contextualizing Some Architectural Ruptures and Gestures"
Caecilia Pieri, Urban Observatory, Institute for the Near East, Beirut. - "Urban Redevelopment Policies as a Planning Solution for Urban Deterioration-Baghdad"
Maha Malaika, Architecture and Spatial Planning Department, Duhok University, Northern Iraq. - Chair: Todd Reisz, Yale School of Architecture.
1:30PM–3:15PM
Panel 3: Sovereignty and the Urban Built Environment: Comparative Reflections
- "Constitutional Modernism: The Idea of the City in Pre-Revolutionary Cuba"
Timothy Hyde, MIT School of Architecture and Planning. - "Urbanization after the War: Beirut's Dahiyah as Case Study"
Mona Fawaz, Radcliffe Institute and American University of Beirut. - "Modernism, Urban Planning and Nation-State Formation: The View from Turkey"
Sibel Bozdogan, Harvard Graduate School of Design. - "The Spatialization of Sectarian Politics in Baghdad, 2006–2007"
Mona Damluji, Art and Art History, Wheaton College. - Chair: Łukasz Stanek, Manchester Architecture Research Center
3:15PM–3:45PM
Afternoon Plenary: Reflections on Urban Counterinsurgency
- David Kilcullen, Caerus Associates, Washington, DC
4:00PM–6:15PM
Panel 4: War and Urbanism Roundtable: Baghdad and Beyond
- "Spaces of Security and Spatial Strategies of the Ba’th During Wartime"
Dina Khoury, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. - "Communal Separation in Baghdad: A Comparative Analysis"
Roger Petersen, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. - "Divided Baghdad: Planning Beyond War"
Amin Alsadan, Harvard Graduate School of Design. - "The Capital and the Symbol: Baghdad and the Sectarian Narratives"
Harith Al-Qarawee, Radcliffe Institute. - "Post War Urban Recovery: Planning for the Future of Baghdad"
Said Alsaady, Director General of Planning at Mayoralty of Baghdad. - Chair: John Tirman, MIT Center for International Studies
Saturday, September 20
Stubbins, Room 112, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA
Half-day Workshop: Baghdad: Where to Now? Planning the Next Steps
9:00AM–10:30AM
Roundtable 1: Governance Challenges
10:30AM–12:00PM
Roundtable 2: Urban Planning and Design Challenges
12:00PM–1:00PM
Closing remarks