BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Bülent Batuman on “New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism: Nego tiating Nation and Islam through Built Environment in Turkey.”Bülent Batum an\, \;Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture\, Bilkent University \;DE/CONSTRUCTING\nTHE MIDDLE EASTERN CITY: Places\,\npubl ics\, &\; geographies of global connection \;“New Islamist Architec ture and\nUrbanism: Negotiating Nation and Islam through Built Environment in Turkey”This\ntalk will provide an overview of Dr. Batuman’s\nnew book\ , New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism\,\nwhich claims that\, in today’s world\, a research agenda concerning the relation\nbetween Islam and spac e has to consider the role of Islamism rather than Islam\nin shaping –and in return being shaped by –the built environment. Defining\nTurkey’s trans formation in the past two decades as a process of “new Islamist”\nnation-( re)building\, the book investigates the role of built environment in the\n making of an Islamist milieu. Drawing on political economy and cultural\ns tudies\, this talk explores the prevailing primacy of nation and nationali sm\nfor new Islamism and the spatial negotiations between nation and Islam . It\ndiscusses the role of architecture in the deployment of history in t he\nrewriting of nationhood and that of space in the expansion of Islamist social\nnetworks and cultural practices. Looking at examples of housing c ompounds\,\nmosques\, public spaces and the new presidential residence\, t he talk scrutinizes\nthe spatial making of new Islamism in Turkey through comparisons with relevant\ncases across the globe: urban renewal projects in Beirut and Amman\, nativization\nof Soviet modernism in Baku and Astana \, the presidential palaces of Ashgabat\nand Putrajaya and the neo-Ottoman mosques built in diverse locations as Tokyo\nand Washington DC.For additi onal information\, contact Matthew Huber at mthuber@maxwell.syr.edu.For\ni nformation on accessibility\, or to request accommodation\, please contact Marc\nAlbert 315-443-9248Co-sponsored with the Moynihan\nInstitute of Glo bal Affairs\, the Middle Eastern Studies Program and the SU Humanities\nCe nter DTEND:20180330T200000Z DTSTAMP:20260511T012521Z DTSTART:20180330T190000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Geography Colloquium and CAC Workshop Keynote Lecture: Bülent Batum an UID:RFCALITEM639140451214471896 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Bülent Batuman on “New Islamist Architectur e and Urbanism: Negotiating Nation and Islam through Built Environment in Turkey.”

Bülent Batuman\, \;Department of Urban Design and Lands cape Architecture\, Bilkent University \;

DE/CONSTRUCTING\n THE MIDDLE EASTERN CITY: Places\,\npublics\, &\; geographies of global connection

 \;“New Islamist Architecture and\nUrban ism: Negotiating Nation and Islam through Built Environment in Turkey”

This\ntalk will provide an overview of Dr. Batuman’s\nnew book \, New Islamist Architecture and Urbanism\,\nwhich claims that\, in today’ s world\, a research agenda concerning the relation\nbetween Islam and spa ce has to consider the role of Islamism rather than Islam\nin shaping –and in return being shaped by –the built environment. Defining\nTurkey’s tran sformation in the past two decades as a process of “new Islamist”\nnation- (re)building\, the book investigates the role of built environment in the\ nmaking of an Islamist milieu. Drawing on political economy and cultural\n studies\, this talk explores the prevailing primacy of nation and national ism\nfor new Islamism and the spatial negotiations between nation and Isla m. It\ndiscusses the role of architecture in the deployment of history in the\nrewriting of nationhood and that of space in the expansion of Islamis t social\nnetworks and cultural practices. Looking at examples of housing compounds\,\nmosques\, public spaces and the new presidential residence\, the talk scrutinizes\nthe spatial making of new Islamism in Turkey through comparisons with relevant\ncases across the globe: urban renewal projects in Beirut and Amman\, nativization\nof Soviet modernism in Baku and Astan a\, the presidential palaces of Ashgabat\nand Putrajaya and the neo-Ottoma n mosques built in diverse locations as Tokyo\nand Washington DC.

Fo r additional information\, contact Matthew Huber at mthuber@maxwell.syr.ed u.

For\ninformation on accessibility\, or to request accommodation\, please contact Marc\nAlbert 315-443-9248

Co-sponsored w ith the Moynihan\nInstitute of Global Affairs\, the Middle Eastern Studies Program and the SU Humanities\nCenter

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