NOMAD SEMINAR, 2012, Middle East Technical University-Ankara
NARRATIVES OF TRAVEL WRITING AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY
Organizers: Elvan Altan Ergut, Belgin Turan Özkaya
Seminar Coordinator: Carmen Popescu
November 8, Thursday
9:30-10:00 Welcome
10:00-11:30 Session I: Imagining Places
Chair: Elvan Altan Ergut
Nikos Tsivikis (Center for Messenian Archaeological Studies, Athens)
What is Byzantine? Travelers in Early 19th Century Morea (Peloponnese) and the Construction of Byzantine Architecture
Elvan Cobb (Cornell University)
The Role of Travel in the Establishment of the Architectural Photography Collection at Cornell University
Anna Brzyski (University of Kentucky)
From the Colonial Era to the Cold War: Henry Sienkiewicz’s Travels through Real, Imagined and Ideological Africa
11:30-13:30 Break
13:30-15:00 Session II: ‘Grand Tourists’
Chair: Ali Uzay Peker
Emilio Mazza (IULM, Milan) & Edoardo Piccoli (Politecnico di Torino)
True and False Philosophers in Tour:
Lord Charlemont's Topography of Manners
Tuğba Tanyeri Erdemir (Middle East Technical University)
Archaeological Travels in the Ottoman Near East
Sibel Acar (Middle East Technical University)
Intersecting Routes of Architectural Photography, Travel, and Survey Books in Nineteenth Century
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-17:30 METU talks Architectural History 35: Book Launch
Can Bilsel (University of San Diego)
Antiquity on Display: Regimes of the Authentic
in Berlin's Pergamon Museum (Oxford University Press, 2012)
Introduction by Belgin Turan Özkaya
November 9, Friday
10:00-11:30 Roundtable: Travels to Ottoman Lands
Nilay Özlü (Bosphorus University)
One Palace, Multiple Narratives:
Travel Accounts on the Topkapı Palace from 18th to 20th Century
Betül Atasoy (İstanbul Technical University)
The Impressions on Late Ottoman Architecture ‘within the framework of Istanbul’ through 19th Century American Travel Narratives
Stefan Peychev (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Lost Architecture:
Travel Literature and the Study of Bulgaria’s Ottoman Heritage
Discussion by Ahmet Ersoy
11:30-13:30 Break
13:30-15:00 Session III: Visiting Cities
Chair: Namık Erkal
Sean Anderson (University of Sydney)
Real Copies: Writing a Modern Colonial Asmara
Elisa Poli & Giovani Avosani (University of Ferrara)
Giorgio Bassani, the Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Aslıhan Şenel (Istanbul Technical University)
Away at Home: Making and Breaking the Identity of the Home City through Contemporary Guidebooks
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-17:00 Session IV: Touring Architects
Chair: Ali Cengizkan
M. Kemal Baran (Koç University)
Different Modes of Recording in Karl Friedrich Schinkel’s Architectural Journey to Italy
Daniela Ortiz dos Santos (Swiss Federal Institute of technology)
Le Corbusier's Trip to Brazil
Denise Costanzo (Pennsylvania State University)
Revisiting the Caput Mundi: Venturi’s Letters from Rome
17:00-17:30 Concluding Remarks
Moderator: Carmen Popescu
Moderator: Carmen Popescu
supported by METU Faculty of Architecture and Department of Architecture
