AHVA sessional professor Abbas Akh avan and MFA Graduate Babak Golkar participates i n this symposium that is free and open to the public.
The symposium i s sponsored by Centre A (Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary As ian Art) and the Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and C ultures (Simon Fraser University). The Centre for the Comparative Study of Muslim Societies and Cultures\, Department of History\, Simon Fraser Univer sity.
10am Keynote Speaker Dr. Steven Caton "From Ru dolph Valentino to Special Forces: The Creation\, Transformation\, and Circ ulation of the 'Shaykh' in American Culture".
Dr. Steven Caton is Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University and Director of its Centre for Middle Eastern Studies. A specialist on anthropological poetics and or ientalism\, he is the author of Peaks of Yemen I Summon: Poetry as Cultural Practice in a North Yemen Tribe (University of California Press\, 1990)\, Lawrence of Arabia: A Film’s Anthropology (University of California Press\, 1999)\, and Yemen Chronicles: An Anthropology of War and Mediation (Hill a nd Wang\, 2005).
1:30pm Dr. Silvia Naef "Orient alizing Orientalism? Visual Arts from the Middle East in the Global Context "
Dr. Silvia Naef is Professor of Arabic Studies at the Universit
y of Geneva and General Secretary of the European Association of Arabists a
nd Islamicists. A historian of the visual culture of the Middle East and th
e
Muslim world\, she has edited and written numerous monographs\, incl
uding Images and Aniconism in Islam: From the Qur’an to the Caricature Deba
te (C.H. Beck\, 2007) and The Other Shi’ites: From the Mediterranean to Cen
tral Asia (Peter Lang\, 2007).
2:30-4:30pm Symposium of Artists<
br />Dr. Laura Marks\, Chair (SFU)
Babak Golk
ar\, Abbas Akhavan\, Jayce Salloum\, Fabiola Nabil Naguib
8p
m Exhibition opening: Orientalism and Ephemera / l’orientalisme au quotidie
n
Centre A\, 2 West Hastings Street\, Vancouver
Opening: Friday\
, March 14\, 8pm
Twenty-nine national and international artists + arch
ival material.
Curated by Jamelie Hassan\, organized
and sponsored by Centre A.
Jamelie Hassan is an artist and cultur al activist whose work is found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario. She is a 2001 recipient of the Go vernor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts.
Film s
creening
Every Saturday during the exhibition\, 3 to 5pm. Fil
m schedule to be announced on the Centre A website: www.centrea.org.
Ancillary event Workshop on Arabian Ni
ghts: Translations and Transformations April 22\, 2008 (Simon Fraser Univer
sity)
For further information: www.
sfu.ca/ccsmsc or www.centrea.org<
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