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## Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in the Building of Baghdad

### September 18–20, 2014

#### Thursday, September 18

**Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA**

**6:30PM–8:00PM**

Keynote Panel Discussion: War and Urbanism

- "Crises of Territorial Integrity: Iraq and Nigeria"  
    Stuart Elden, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick.
- "Destroyers & Builders”  
    Todd Reisz, Yale School of Architecture.
- Commentators: Diane Davis and Pierre Belanger, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
- Moderator: Neil Brenner, Harvard Graduate School of Design.

#### Friday, September 19

**Piper Auditorium, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA**

**9:00AM–9:15AM** Welcome Remarks

- Diane Davis, Professor of Urbanism and Development, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and Weatherhead Center Faculty Associate.
- Łukasz Stanek, Manchester Architecture Research Center.

**9:15AM–9:45AM**

Morning Plenary: Nationalism, Arabism, and Now What?

- Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor, Department of Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Sponsored by: Aga Khan Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Design

**9:45AM–11:00AM**

Panel 1: Baghdad in Regional, National, and Global Context

- "Adventures in Baghdad—Constantinos A. Doxiadis, the Science of Ekistics and Cold War Politics*"* M. Christine Boyer, Princeton University School of Architecture.
- "Beyond the Dam: The Emergence of the 'Serifa-Dweller' in 1950s Baghdad"  
    Huma Gupta, MIT School of Architecture and Planning.
- "Planning and Politics in Ba'thi Iraq"  
    Kanan Makiya, Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University.
- "The Influence of Politics on Urban Development: The Past, Present, and Future of Baghdad"  
    Alaa Al-Tamimi, former Mayor of Baghdad (2004–2005), President at Urban Reform Center Inc., Toronto.
- Chair: Roger Owen, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University

**11:00AM–12:45PM**

Panel 2: Modernism in Baghdad: Applied, Adapted, Abandoned

- "A Belated Garden City in the Desert: Baghdad's Master Plan of the 1950s"  
    Neil Levine, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
- "Architects, Planners and Construction Companies from Socialist Countries in Iraq, 1958–1991: Modernism and the Labor of Adaptation"  
    Łukasz Stanek, Manchester Architecture Research Center.
- "Early 50s Baghdad: Contextualizing Some Architectural Ruptures and Gestures"  
    Caecilia Pieri, Urban Observatory, Institute for the Near East, Beirut.
- "Urban Redevelopment Policies as a Planning Solution for Urban Deterioration-Baghdad"  
    Maha Malaika, Architecture and Spatial Planning Department, Duhok University, Northern Iraq.
- Chair: Todd Reisz, Yale School of Architecture.

**1:30PM–3:15PM**

Panel 3: Sovereignty and the Urban Built Environment: Comparative Reflections

- "Constitutional Modernism: The Idea of the City in Pre-Revolutionary Cuba"  
    Timothy Hyde, MIT School of Architecture and Planning.
- "Urbanization after the War: Beirut's Dahiyah as Case Study"  
    Mona Fawaz, Radcliffe Institute and American University of Beirut.
- "Modernism, Urban Planning and Nation-State Formation: The View from Turkey"  
    Sibel Bozdogan, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
- "The Spatialization of Sectarian Politics in Baghdad, 2006–2007"  
    Mona Damluji, Art and Art History, Wheaton College.
- Chair: Łukasz Stanek, Manchester Architecture Research Center

**3:15PM–3:45PM**

Afternoon Plenary: Reflections on Urban Counterinsurgency

- David Kilcullen, Caerus Associates, Washington, DC

**4:00PM–6:15PM**

Panel 4: War and Urbanism Roundtable: Baghdad and Beyond

- "Spaces of Security and Spatial Strategies of the Ba’th During Wartime"  
    Dina Khoury, Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University.
- "Communal Separation in Baghdad: A Comparative Analysis"  
    Roger Petersen, Department of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- "Divided Baghdad: Planning Beyond War"  
    Amin Alsadan, Harvard Graduate School of Design.
- "The Capital and the Symbol: Baghdad and the Sectarian Narratives"  
    Harith Al-Qarawee, Radcliffe Institute.
- "Post War Urban Recovery: Planning for the Future of Baghdad"  
    Said Alsaady, Director General of Planning at Mayoralty of Baghdad.
- Chair: John Tirman, MIT Center for International Studies

#### Saturday, September 20

**Stubbins, Room 112, Gund Hall, 48 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA**

Half-day Workshop: Baghdad: Where to Now? Planning the Next Steps  
  
9:00AM–10:30AM**

Roundtable 1: Governance Challenges  
  
10:30AM–12:00PM**

Roundtable 2: Urban Planning and Design Challenges  
  
12:00PM–1:00PM**

Closing remarks