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December 7-8, 2012Sabancı University Karaköy Minerva Han, IstanbulSabancı University and Istanbul Policy Centerin collaboration with Boğaziçi University&#160;Program________________________________________FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7________________________________________10:00 - 10:30 ➢ Welcoming Address and Opening RemarksFuat Keyman (Istanbul Policy Center)Ayşe Öncü (Sabancı University, Istanbul)10:30 - 12:00 Session I: Literary CitiesChair : Ayşe Öncü (Sabancı University, İstanbul)Discussant: Matthew Gumpert (Boğaziçi University, İstanbul)➢ “Mapping Cairo: The Literary City”Samia Mehrez (The American University in Cairo, Cairo)➢ “Orhan Pamuk and the Literary Crossings of İstanbul”Sibel Irzık (Sabancı University, Istanbul)12.00 – 13.30 LUNCH BREAK13:30 - 15:00 Session II: Politics of Heritage Chair : Ayfer Bartu Candan (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul)Discussant: Biray Kolluoğlu (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul)➢ “The Consumption of Heritage in the Post-war Reconstruction: Project of Downtown Beirut”Howayda al-Harithy (American University of Beirut)➢ “Dilemmas of Conservation and Politics of Heritage in Contemporary İstanbul”Özlem Ünsal (The City University of London)15.00 – 15.30 COFFEE /TEA BREAK15:30 - 17:00 Session III: Struggles for Space and PlaceChair : Mona Harb (American University of Beirut)Discussant: Çağlar Keyder (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul)➢ “Popular Cairo and the Revolution”Salwa Ismail (SOAS, London)➢ “The Dark Side of Beautiful İstanbul: Istanbul’s State of Emergency Zones”Deniz Yonucu (Cornell University)________________________________________SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8________________________________________10:30 - 12:00 Session IV: Multiple PeripheriesChair : Samia Mehrez (American University of Cairo)Discussant: Ayse Öncü, (Sabancı University, Istanbul)➢ “Re-assembling the past and the present:The eclectic aesthetics of moral leisure in south Beirut”Mona Harb (American University of Beirut) and Lara Deeb (Scripps College)➢ “Engaging the World from the Alexandria Waterfront”Samuli Schielke (Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin)12.00 – 13.00 LUNCH BREAK13:00 - 15:00 Session VI: Politics of Art and CultureChair : Sibel Irzık (Sabancı University, Istanbul)Discussant: Meltem Ahıska (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul)➢ “A Civilized Revolution: Aesthetics, Political Action, and Urban Space in Egypt”Jessica Winegar (Northwestern University)➢ “Turks Have No Taste in Art”Kirsten Scheid (American University of Beirut)➢ “The Contradictory Currency of Political Art:Configurations of the Political in Istanbul’s Art World”Banu Karaca (Sabancı University, Istanbul)15.00 – 15.30 COFFEE /TEA BREAK15:30 - 17:00 Session V: Round Table DiscussionChair and Discussion Leader: Ayfer Bartu Candan (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul)