january 20, 2012
Austrian Society for Architecture (ÖGFA), Vienna , Austria
Invited lecture within the lecture series “Solidarity: How do democratic spaces come into existence? Lecture title: “National purification through religious architecture“
april 22, 2010
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA, USA
Guest 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”
february 12, 2010
Florida International University
Miami, FL, USA
Lecture hosted by the Middle East Studies Center, School of International and Public Affairs. Lecture: “Nomadic mosque: Architecture as Identity”
october 14, 2009
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. Discussion 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.
june 25, 2009
Former Synagogue Hohenems
Hohenems, Austria
An event within the lecture series entitled “How to Built a Site-Specific Minaret?“, organized by the INKA Institut für Interkulturelle Arbeit Dornbirn, Jewish Museum Hohenems, Association okay. zusammen leben, Projektstelle für Zuwanderung und Integration Dornbirn, Vorarlberg Architecture Institute, Dornbirn. The lecture was initiated and sponsored by the US Embassy Vienna
february 25, 2009
New York University
New York City, NY, USA
Guest lecture within the seminar Technology as Identity at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Lecturer: Ayah Bdeir
november 11, 2008
Art University Linz
Linz, Austria
Guest lecture within the seminar Interface Cultures, Lecturer: Prof. Christa Sommerer
july 23, 2008
Vorarlberg Architecture Institute
Organized by the Vorarlberg Architecture Institute as a part of the multidisciplinary Summer School in Bregenz, Austria
july 1, 2008
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
april 25, 2008
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.”
march 3-4, 2008
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
february 29, 2008
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
october 22, 2007
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
october 19, 2007
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”
october 18, 2007
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.
september 30, 2007
Secession Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Artist talk / presentation of recent art projects
july 21, 2007
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”
june 4, 2007
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”
may 20, 2007
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
april 25, 2007
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
april 24, 2007
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”
march 5, 2007
Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA
Lecture: “The World as a Mosque”
Organized by Architecture Program at the Wellesley College (Prof. Lara Thome) and Al-Muslimat
december 14, 2006
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, Director 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
october 13-14, 2006
Festival Steirischer Herbst / Dom im Berg
Graz, Austria
Invited presentation at the symposium Dictionary of War organized by Multitude e.V. and Unfriendly TakeoverFrankfurt/Munich/Graz/Berlin (June 2006 – February 2007) in collaboration with the Festival Steirischer Herbst. Presented paper: “Pro-vocation”
august 24, 2006
Magribija Mosque Sarajevo
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’
april 21-22, 2006
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’
april 5, 2006
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
january 26, 2006
Technical University Innsbruck
Innsbruck, Austria
Invited lecture by the Department for Urban Planning, TU Innsbruck
Lecture: Recent Projects
november 20, 2005
Bauhaus Dessau
Dessau, Germany
Lecture within the lecture series on UN Urbanism, Bauhaus Dessau College, Germany
Presented paper: ‘Arizona Road: Discovery of an Urban Phenomenon’
november 18, 2005
Balkan Black Box Festival
Berlin, Germany
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”
september 13, 2005
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’
november 25, 2003
New School University, Department for Social Sciences
New York City, NY, USA
Guest lecture within the seminar Urban Spaces: On, Under and Above, Lecturer: Prof. Aleksandra Wagner
march 27, 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’
january 30-31, 2003
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.
september 13, 2002
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”