04/24/2012
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Invited lecture given within the course Culture and Belief 12/HDS 3627 “For the Love of God and His Prophet: Religion, Literature and the Arts in Muslim Cultures”, instructor Prof. Ali S. Asani, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Lecture: “Mosque Architecture for Contemporary Muslim Societies”
01/20/2012
Austrian Society for Architecture (ÖGFA), Vienna, Austria
Invited lecture given within the lecture series “Solidarity: How do democratic spaces come into existence?”
Lecture: “National Purification through Religious Architecture“
12/07/2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Invited lecture given within the course 4.614 “Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures”, instructor Christina Hedrick, Lecturer in History, Theory and Criticism Program, Department of Architecture MIT
Lecture: “Finding Form – Defining Identity: Contemporary Mosque Architecture in the West”
12/02/2011
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA
Invited lecture given within the course “Survey of Islamic Art and Architecture (7th-20th c.)”, instructor Pamela Karimi, Assistant Professor of Art History, College of Visual and Performing Arts
Lecture: “Projects for an Encounter”
09/14/2011
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Invited presentation of projects in 4.330 / 4.331 Introduction to Networked Cultures and Participatory Media, instructor Gediminas Urbonas, Associate Professor, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology,
Lecture: “Urban Navigation”
04/22/2010
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Invited lecture within the course Culture and Belief 12/HDS 3627 “For the Love of God and His Prophet: Religion, Literature and the Arts in Muslim Cultures” Lecture title: “Mosque architecture for Contemporary Muslim Societies”
02/12/2010
Florida International University, Miami, FL
Invited lecture hosted by the Middle East Studies Center, School of International and Public Affairs. Lecture: “Nomadic mosque: Architecture as Identity”
02/25/2009
New York University, New York, NY
Guest lecture within the seminar Technology as Identity at the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP). Lecture: “Portable Mosques”
11/11/2008
Art University Linz, Austria
Guest lecture within the seminar Interface Cultures. Lecture: “Portable Mosques”
04/25/2008
American University of Paris, France
Invited lecture within A. W. Mellon Lecture Series. Lecture: “Portable Mosques”
10/22/2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Invited lecture within the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Papers: Nebahat Avcioglu and Azra Aksamija
10/19/2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Guest lecture within the course Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures.
Lecture: “The Mongol invasions and consequent Islamization: The mosques, madrasas, and mausolea of the Ilkhanids”
04/24/2007
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Guest lecture within the course Advanced Study in Modern Architecture.
Lecture: “The Modern Vernaculars: Cultural Construction of Built Environments”
03/05/2007
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Organized by Architecture Program at the Wellesley College and Al-Muslimat
Lecture: “The World as a Mosque”
12/14/2006
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.”
01/26/2006
Technical University Innsbruck, Austria
Invited lecture organized by the Department for Urban Planning, TU Innsbruck
Lecture: “Recent work”
11/20/2005
Bauhaus Dessau College, Germany
Invited lecture within the lecture series “UN Urbanism”
Lecture: “Post-war Architecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina”
11/25/2003
New School, Department for Social Sciences, New York City, NY
Guest lecture within the seminar Urban Spaces: On, Under and Above, Instructor: Aleksandra Wagner. Lecture: “Arizona Road”
10/14/2009
International Festival of Contemporary Arts – City of Women, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Festival theme “Global South”. Invited lecture and performance 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. Lecture: “Nomadic Mosque”
10/18/2007
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Invited artist talk within the series Upgrade! Boston organized by Jo-Anne Green for Turbulence.org in partnership with the Studio for Interrelated Media at Massachusetts College of Art. Lecture: “Nomadic Mosque”
09/30/2007
Secession Vienna, Austria
Artist talks within the exhibition “Kunstmoschee”. Lecture: “Kunstmoschee”
07/21/2007
Secession Vienna, Austria
Lecture and organization of the panel: “Form as Identity / Identity as Form”
Lecture: “Negotiating Identity: Twenty-First Century Mosques in Bosnia-Herzegovina”
05/20/2007
P.S.1, New York City, NY
Artist talk within the Fine Print Program: Alternative Media, An afternoon with Lovely Daze, a biannual independent artists’ publication. Lecture: “Nomadic Mosque”
04/25/2007
Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Artist talk and discussion with the curator Eva Diaz within the event: “BYO (Bring Your Own), Voices of the Contemporary at the Carpenter Center”, Department for History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University. Lecture: “Urban Negotiation”
04/05/2006
Center for Advanced Visual Studies MIT, Cambridge, MA
Lecture the artist and curator Kyong Park: “Europe Lost and Found” and the “Lost Highway Expedition”
09/13/2005
MIT Graduate Art Forum, Cambridge, MA
Artist talk organized by the MIT Office of the Arts. Lecture: “Nomadic Mosque”
09/13/2002
Generali Foundation Vienna, Austria
Invited lecture and discussion with Dr. Wolfgang Petritsch, 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
Lecture: “Arizona Road”
06/25/2009
Commissioned lectures for the US Embassy Vienna at the former Synagogue Hohenems, Austria
Lecture series entitled “How to Built a Site-Specific Minaret?“organized by the INKA Institut für Interkulturelle Arbeit (Institute for Intercultural Work), Dornbirn, Jewish Museum Hohenems, Association okay. zusammen leben (okay. Living Together. A Project for Immigration and Integration), Dornbirn, v a i Vorarlberg Architecture Institute, Dornbirn. The lecture was initiated and sponsored by the US Embassy Vienna
Lecture title: “Zwischen Gebetsstätte und Kulturzentrum: Vielfalt der Moscheenarchitektur in den U.S.A.“ (”Between Prayer Space and a Cultural Center: The Diversity of Mosque Architecture in the U.S.A.”)
07/23/2008
Vorarlberg Architecture Institute, Dornbirn, Austria
Invited lecture organized by the Vorarlberg Architecture Institute as a part of the multidisciplinary Summer School in Bregenz, Austria
Lecture: “Recent works”
07/01/2008
City Hall Vienna, Austria
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.
Lecture: “Contemporary Mosque in the West”
08/24/2006
Magribija Mosque, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Lecture organized within the “Lost Highway Expedition”
Lecture: “When Flags Become Buildings and Buildings become Flags: Identity politics in Bosnia’s Mosque Architecture Today“
11/18/2005
Balkan Black Box Festival , Berlin, Germany
Invited lecture and participation in the workshop “give and take, steal and mutate – Appropriation of the city between identity politics and Art of Survival”
7 days of independent art and architecture from South-East Europe, Berlin, Germany