Lectures at Academic Institutions

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA, USA

Invited lecture within the course For the Love of God and His Prophet: Religion, Literature and the Arts in Muslim Cultures, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations  / course instructor: Prof. Ali S. Asani. Lecture: “Mosque and Identity”

Florida State University

Miami, FL, USA

Invited lecture hosted by the Middle East Studies Center, School of International and Public  Affairs. Lecture: “Nomadic mosque: Architecture as Identity”

New York University

New York City, NY, USA

Invited lecture within the seminar Technology as Identity at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Lecturer: Ayah Bdeir

Art University Linz

Linz, Austria

Guest lecture within the seminar Interface Cultures, Lecturer: Prof. Christa Sommerer

American University of Paris

Paris, France

Invited lecture within the A. W. Mellon Lecture Series, two talks including Professor Nebahat Avcioglu’s "The Mosque: From the House of the Prophet to Monuments of the State" and Azra Aksamija’s "Portable Mosques."

Donau-Universität Krems

Krems, Austria

Invited lecture and Workshop Leader at the Conference Islam in Sicht. Zur Auseinandersetzung um muslimische Bauten in Österreich [Islam Becoming Visible. Controversy about the Islamic Buildings in Austria], organized by Donau-Universität Krems, Fachbereich fuer Interkulturelle Studien

Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT

Cambridge, MA, USA

Invited lecture within the lecture series of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT organized by Deniz Turker and Anneka E. Lenssen.

Papers: Nebahat Avcioglu and Azra Aksamija

University of North Carolina

Chapel Hill, NC

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

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA, USA

Invited lecture within the course Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures / Course lecturer: Nebahat Avcioglu

Lecture: “The Mongol invasions and consequent Islamization: The mosques, madrasas, and mausolea of the Ilkhanids”

Massachusetts College of Art

Boston, MA, USA

Invited lecture within the lecture series of Upgrade! Boston organized by Jo-Anne Green for Turbulence.org in partnership with the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge, MA, USA

Guest lecture within the course Advanced Study in Modern Architecture / course instructor: Prof. Stanford Anderson. Lecture: “The Modern Vernaculars: Cultural Construction of Built Environments”

Wellesley College

Wellesley, MA

Lecture: "The World as a Mosque"

Organized by Architecture Program at the Wellesley College (Prof. Lara Thome) and Al-Muslimat

Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Cambridge, USA

Invited panelist at the panel: Europe's other Urban Heritage. The Creation and Destruction of Islamic Spaces in Bosnian Towns and Cities. Speakers: Andras Riedlmayer, Directro of the Documentation Center of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard's Fine Arts Library.  A specialist in the history and culture of the Balkans and Azra Aksamija. Panel organized and moderated by John Czaplicka

Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT

Cambridge, USA

Invited lecture at the symposium The Mosque in the West, MIT sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT, the Dean for Student Life, and the MIT Council for the Arts

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

Center for Advanced Visual Studies MIT

Cambridge, MA

Presentation of the projects “Europe Lost and Found” and the “Lost Highway Expedition.” Lecture together with artist and curator Kyong Park

Technical University Innsbruck

Innsbruck, Austria

Invited lecture by the Department for Urban Planning, TU Innsbruck

Lecture: Recent Projects

Bauhaus Dessau

Dessau, Germany

Invited lecture within the lecture series on UN Urbanism, Bauhaus Dessau College, Germany

Presented paper: 'Arizona Road: Discovery of an Urban Phenomenon'

MIT Graduate Art Forum

Forum organized by the MIT Office of the Arts

Presenters: Azra Aksamija and Joe Dahmen, Moderator: Wendy Jacob

Presented projects: 'Wearable Mosques'

New School, Department for Social Sciences

New York City, NY, USA

Guest lecture within the seminar Urban Spaces: On, Under and Above, Lecturer: Prof. Aleksandra Wagner

Academy for Fine Arts Munich

Munich, Germany

Invited lecture at the symposium Frauen, die die Stadt bewegen. Gender specific aspects in the city development, 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'

Invited Lectures at Art Institutions

International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women Ljubljana, Slovenia

Festival theme “Global South”. Lecture and performance “Nomadic Mosque” at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Lecture followed by a round table discussion themed “Who is Afraid of the Other”. Event organized by City of Women Festival in collaboration with SRC SASA, and supported by the Austrian Cultural Forum – Ljubljana.

Hosted and moderated by: Lana Zdravković, researcher at the Peace Institute and KITCH artist. Round table participants: philosopher Rado Riha, researcher and professor at SRC SASA; aesthetician Lev Kreft, Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Director of the Peace Institute; and architect, painter, and sociologist Beatriz Tomšič Čerkez researcher and lecturer at the Faculty of Education.

Secession Vienna

Vienna, Austria

Artist talk / presentation of recent art projects

Secession Vienna

Vienna, Austria

Lecture at the Panel: “Form as Identity / Identity as Form” with Nebahat Avcioglu (Keynote speaker), Azra Aksamija, Thomas Pucher, and Christina Lenart

Lecture: “Negotiating Identity: Twenty-First Century Mosques in Bosnia-Herzegovina”

Kunsthalle Zurich

Zurich, Switzerland

Invited Keynote Lecture  with Prof. Ute Meta Bauer within the Conference Translocal Practices. Artistic Practices in Networked Spaces. Lecture:  “aVoid. Antagonistic Fields in the Translocal Space.”

P.S.1 NY

New York City, NY

Artist talk within the Fine Print Program: Alternative Media, An afternoon with Lovely Daze, a biannual independent artists' publication founded by Charwei Tsai and co-edited by Lesley Ma.

Carpenter Center, Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

Lecture and discussion with the curator Eva Diaz within the event: “BYO (Bring Your Own),“ Voices of the Contemporary at the Carpenter Center, organized by Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Khadija Z Carroll and Katie Pfohl, Department for History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

Festival Steirischer Herbst / Dom im Berg Graz

Graz, Austria

Invited presentation at the symposium 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”

Lecture and invited participation in the workshop "give and take, steal and mutate - Appropriation of the City between Identity Politics and the Art of Survival"

7 days of independent art and architecture from South-East Europe, Berlin, Germany

Lecture and discussion: 'Recent research in the Western Balkans'

27 March 2003

Liverpool Biennial

Liverpool, UK

Lecture and invited participation in the Liverpool Biennial, UK

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'         

Generali Foundation Vienna

Lecture and exhibition Discussion with Dr. Wolfgang Pertritsch, former High Representative of the International Community for Bosnia and Herzegovina and Austria's permanent representative at the UN office in Geneva and the WTO. Presented paper: 'Arizona Road: Discovery of an Urban Phenomenon'    

Other Invited Lectures

Invited Lecture (series) for the US Embassy Vienna at the former Synagogue Hohenems, Austria

An event within the lecture series entitled “How to Built a Site-Specific Minaret?“, organized by the INKA Institut für Interkulturelle Arbeit (Institute for Intercultural Work), Dornbirn, Jewish Museum Hohenems, Association okay. zusammen leben, Projektstelle für Zuwanderung und Integration (okay. Living Togather. A Project for Immigration and Integration), Dornbirn, v a i Vorarlberg Architecture Institute, Dornbirn. The lecture was initiated and sponsored by the US Embassy Vienna

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.”)

Invited Lecture at the Vorarlberg Architecture Institute

Organized by the Vorarlberg Architecture Institute as a part of the multidisciplinary Summer School in Bregenz, Austria.

Invited Lecture at the City Hall Vienna

Invited lecture organized by the Green Party Vienna. Lecture followed by the discussion with Alev Korun, Integration Spokesperson and Sabine Gretner, Planning Spokesperson of the Green Party Austria.

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Lecture within the events of Lost Highway Expedition in Sarajevo. Lecture title:'When Flags Become Buildings and Buildings become Flags: Identity politics in Bosnia's Mosque Architecture Today'

Lecture for the celebration of Eid ul-Fitr: 'Wearable Mosque'