SPEAKERS

J A NA N N E A L - A N I
Artist, London
M A R I LY N B O OT H
Departaments of Comparative & World Literature
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
ZEYNEP C ELIK
School of Architecture
New Jersey Institute of Technology
R ANDI DEGUILHEM
Institut de Recherche et d'Etudes sur le Monde Arabe et Musulman (IREMAM)
Aix-en-Provence
J AT E E N L A D
Architect, London
R E I NA L E W I S
School of Cultural & Innovation Studies
University of East London
S H AU N E . M A R M O N
Department of Religion
Princeton University
NANCY M ICKLEWRIGHT
Getty Grant Program, Los Angeles
L E S L I E P E I RC E
Departaments of History and Near Eastern Studies
UC Berkeley
K I S H WA R R I Z V I
Department of Art History
Barnard College, Columbia University
I RV I N C. S C H I C K
Researcher, MIT
H E G H NA R W AT E N PAU G H
Department of Architecture, MIT

DISCUSSANTS

C A RO L I N E J O N E S
Department of Architecture, MIT
E R I K A N AG I N S K I
Department of Architecture, MIT
E V E R E T T R OW S O N
Department of Middle Eastern Studies, NYU
S U S A N S LYO M OV I C S
Anthropology Program, MIT
CHRISTINE W ALLEY
Anthropology Program, MIT

This two-day symposium offers an opportunity to debate the harem as an institution, an actual
space, and a literary and artistic trope, and through these themes to critically review the spaces
of women in Islamic cultures, both real and imagined and both in the past and present. Papers
will deal with specific examples of historical (or contemporary?) harems, with legal and politi-
cized debates about harems, and with representations of the Harem in art, literature, and present-
day media in the east and west, with all associated theoretical and political implications.

Symposium organized by Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Architecture MIT
 FRIDAY, MAY 7TH 3RD SESSION: HOUSES AND HAREMS

12:00-12:30
I N T RO D U C T I O N
"Colonial Visions, Civilizing Missions, and the Algerian House"
5:30-5:40 Z E Y N E P C E L I K School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Te c h n o l o g y
We l c o m e
12:30-1:00
D E A N A D È L E N AU D É S A N TO S Department of Architecture, MIT "Capture and Catharsis: A Woman's Space in Contemporary Pakistan"

5:40-5:45 K I S H WA R R I Z V I Department of Art History, Barnard College, Columbia University

Introductory Remarks 1:00-1:15
N A S S E R R A B BAT Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Architecture, MIT Discussant:
C H R I S T I N E W A L L E Y Anthropology Program, MIT
1ST SESSION: REPRESENTING THE HAREM
1:15-2:30
5:45-6:15 Lunch
"Scenes and Ty p e s "
J A NA N N E A L - A N I Artist, London 4TH SESSION: S T R ATEGIES OF IDENTITY

6:15-6:45 2:30-3:00
"Whose Harem? Harem Photographs from the Late Ottoman Wo r l d " “Sons and Mothers: Lineage, Polemic and Filial Bonds among Fifteenth Century ‘Ulama’”
N A N C Y M I C K L E W R I G H T Getty Grant Program, Los A n g e l e s S H AU N E . M A R M O N Department of Religion, Princeton University

6:45-7:15 3:00-3:30
"The Harem and the Houseboat: Writing against Respectability in 1920s Egypt" "Education in the Harem: A Means of Individuation of the Person?"
M A R I LY N B O OT H Dept. of Comparative & World Lit., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign R A N D I D E G U I L H E M IREMAM, A i x - e n - P r o v e n c e

7:15-7:45 3:30-3:45
Discussant: Discussant:
E V E R E T T R OW S O N Department of Middle Eastern Studies, NYU
C A RO L I N E J O N E S Department of Architecture, MIT
3:45-4:00
SATURDAY, MAY 8TH Coffe Break

5TH SESSION: HAREM AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER

2ND SESSION: P OWER PLAYS
4:00-4:30
9:30-10:00
"Harem as Gendered Space and the Spatial Reproduction of Gender"
"Panoptic Bodies: Black Eunuchs in the Topkapi Palace"
I RV I N C. S C H I C K R e s e a r c h e r, MIT
J AT E E N L A D Architect, London
4:30-5:00
10:00-10:30
"The Pull of the Harem: The Socializing Effects of Segregated Spatiality"
" Transformative Thresholds and Gendered Harems in the Ottoman Sultanate"
R E I NA L E W I S School of Cultural & Innovation Studies, University of East London
L E S L I E P E I RC E Depts. of History and Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
5:00-5:15
10:30-11:00
Discussant:
"The Harem as Biography: Domestic Architecture, Gender and Nostalgia in Modern Syria"
E R I K A N AG I N S K I Department of Architecture, MIT
H E G H NA R W AT E N PA U G H Department of Architecture, MIT
5:15-6:00
11:00-11:30 General Discussion and Closing Remarks
Discussant: Moderator:
S U S A N S LY O M OV I C S Anthropology Program, MIT N A S S E R R A B BAT Department of Architecture, MIT

11:30-12:00 6:00-7:00
Coffee Break Refreshments