Participation in Conferences and Symposia

Second Annual Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program Conference “Contemporary Muslim Voices in the Arts and Literatures,” Harvard University

Invited Lecture: "Wearable Mosque"

Presenters: Hamra Abbas (painter/sculptor),  Salman Ahmad (rock musician), Azra Aksamija (architect/artist), Samina Ali (author), Wasma’a Chorbachi (calligrapher, sculptor), Mustafa Davis (filmmaker and director), Syed Akbar Hyder (scholar/activist), Sehr Jalal (miniature artiste), Michael Muhammad Knight (author), Basim Osmani/Shahjehan Khan (punk rockers), Hamza Perez (hip hop artist), Samina Qureishi (photographer, author), Hussein Rashid (scholar/activist), Mehmet Ali Sanlikol (musician), Amir Sulaiman (spoken word poet)

Symposium Moscheen heute: Bauaufgabe und Gesellschaftspolitische Verantwortung (Mosques Today: A Building Task and Sociopolitical Responsibility) at the Architecture Center Vienna (AzW), Austria

Invited Lecture, as a part of lecture series for the US Embassy Vienna (the lecture was initiated and sponsored by the US Embassy Vienna) The symposium and panel discussion organized by the AzW.

Lecture title: “Zwischen Gebetsstätte und Kulturzentrum: Vielfalt der Moscheenarchitektur in den U.S.A.“ (”Between Prayer Space and a Cultural Center: The Diversity of Mosque Architecture in the U.S.A.”). Presenters: Azra Aksamija, Sabine Kroissenbrunner, Hüsnü Yegenoglu, and Christian Welzbacher. Moderation: Gudrun Harrer. Discussants: Omar Al-Rawi (parliamentary delegate and representative for integration of Islamic communities in Austria) and Christoph Prinz (Major of Bad Vöslau)

Archive/Counter-Archive Conference at the Monash Center, Prato, Italy

Invited Lecture. Conference organized by the Faculty Art & Design, Monash University, Melbourne and The Centre for Drawing, a Research Centre of the University of the Arts London.

Keynote speakers: Okwui Enwezor and Charles Merewether. Panelists: Azra Aksamija, Jordan Baseman, Andrew Benjamin, Rossella Biscotti, Sonia Boyce, Lorenzo Bruni, Brian Catling, Victoria Lynn, Avis Newman, and Tom Nicholson. Presented paper: “Monument in Waiting”

14th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Imagined Communities, Real Conflicts, and National, International Affairs Building, Columbia University, New York.

Invited Discussant at the Panel: (Re-)Building Identity: Architecture and National Identity in the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans.  Chair: Veronica Aplenc; Panelists: Paolo Girardelli, Mirjana Ristic, Emily Makas; Disscussant: Azra Aksamija

Conference Islam in Sicht. Zur Auseinandersetzung um muslimische Bauten in Österreich [Islam Becoming Visible. Controversy about the Islamic Buildings in Austria], Donau-Universität Krems, Austria

Invited Workshop Leader. Conference organized by Donau-Universität Krems, Fachbereich für Interkulturelle Studien

Workshop Global Middle East, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Invited Lecture. Workshop Global Middle East organized by the Center for the Study of Middle East and Muslim Civilizations, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC

Conference Translocal Practices. Artistic Practices in Networked Spaces, Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland

Invited Keynote Lecture  with Prof. Ute Meta Bauer. Lecture:  “aVoid. Antagonistic Fields in the Translocal Space.”

Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia: Defining Ourselves and Being Defined: Globalization, Regionalism and Multiculturalism, University of Pittsburgh, PA

Conference organized by University of Pittsburgh, Russian and East European Studies at Pittsburgh University and GOSECA. Presented paper: “Balkanizing Minimalism: The War Memorial at the Church of St. George in Sokolac, Bosnia-Herzegovina.“

Symposium LHE @ MIT: The Lost Highway Expedition and Self-Organized Archive, MIT, Cambridge, USA

Conceptualized, organized and moderated the interdisciplinary symposium coorganized with Meg Roetzel, Associate Curator at the Center for Advanced Visual Studeis (CAVS) at MIT.

LHE presentation by travelers Azra Akšamija, Khadija Carrol, Ana Dzokic, Ivan Kucina, Marc Neelen, and  Meg Rotzel. Critical responses by Ute Meta Bauer from MIT’s Visual Arts Program and Eve Blau from Harvard’s GSD. Archive workshop with presentations by Patrick David Haughey, Carla Herrera-Prats, Anneka Lessen, Anna Neimark, and Marisa Jahn. Moderated by artist Marisa Jahn and designer Erik Carver.

Symposium Dictionary of War, Dom im Berg, Graz, Austria

Invited presentation at the Dictionary of War organized by Multitude e.V. and Unfriendly Takeover Frankfurt/Munich/Graz/Berlin (June 2006 – February 2007) in collaboration with the Festival Steirischer Herbst. Presented paper: “Pro-vocation”

Workshop International City Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Invited participation if workshop organized by Bauhaus Kolleg, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Friedrich-Ebert Foundation within the UN-Urbanism Program of the Bauhaus Kolleg.

Invited experts: Azra Aksamija (Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT), Senada Demirovic (City of Mostar), Aleksandr Stular (UN-Habitat Mostar), Rolf van Uye (Director of OSCE, RC Mostar), Andrea Vonkeman (UNHCR Sub-Office Mostar), Michael Weichert (Friedrich Ebert Foundation), and Mersiha Veledar (Architect Mostar, Cooper Union NYC).

Participation in the 2nd summit of the trans-national research project Europe Lost and Found.

Invited lecture at the symposium The Mosque in the West, MIT / Cambridge, USA

Invited participation in the symposium sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT with support from the Dean for Student Life and the MIT Council for the Arts

Presented paper: 'Generative Design Principles for Contemporary Islamic Practice in the West'

Conference Liminal Spaces, Qalandiya, Palestine

Invited lecture. Conference organized as a collaboration of the Israeli Centre for Digital Art Holon, the Palestinian Association for Contemporary Arts PACA and the University of the Arts Berlin. Presented paper: 'Where Religions Meet: Spatial Mediation of Religious Conflicts'

Invited participation in the International Artist Symposium Ortung 2005, Strobl / Wolfgangsee, Austria 

Invited participation. Symposium and artist in residence program organized by the Kunstverein Srobl and Landesregierung Salzburg. Artists: Azra Aksamija, Mladen Bosnic, Gabriele Chari, Folke Köbberling, Mads Lynnerup, Gil Shachar, Norbert Trummer

Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Crossing The Boundaries XIII,  University SUNY Binghamton, NY

Presented paper: 'Bread and Games. Plant and Play: Art between Social Justice and Social Experiment.

27 March 2003

Workshop Urban Ecologies, The Liverpool Biennial, UK

Invited lecture. Papers: Azra Aksamija, Leo Fitzmaurice, Lily van Ginneken & Jan Wijle, Kyong Park, Christoph Schäfer. Moderator: Jonathan Harris. Presented paper: 'Arizona Road: Discovery of an Urban Phenomenon'         

Symposium Frauen, die die Stadt bewegen. Gender specific aspects in the city development, Academy for Fine Arts Munich, Germany

Invited lecture. Syumposum theme: , organized by the Department for Architecture, Academy for Fine Arts Munich, Germany / Prof. Otto Steidle, Prof. Maria Auböck, Ass. Johannes Ernst.

Papers: Azra Aksamija, Susanne Burger, Gabriele Friedrich, Jutta Kleedorfer, Elisabeth Schweeger, Franziska Ullmann. Lecture: 'Arizona Road: Discovery of an Urban Phenomenon'

Workshop Urban Independent, Creative Time, Brooklyn, NY

Invited Participation in Marjetica Potrc’s project for Consuming Places in Creative Time, Brooklyn, NY

Facilitators: Gans&Jelacic, Kyong Park, Marjetica Potrc, Alexandra Wagner; Moderator: Lebbeus Woods