Dionigi Albera participera au colloque “Choreography of Sacred Space: State, Religion and Conflict Resolution” à l’Université de Boğaziçi à Istanbul, les 6 et 7 mai 2010.

Programme :
Thursday May 6th
14:00: Greetings & Opening Remarks: Professor Yesim Arat, Vice Rector for Academic Affairs
14:30 – 18:00 Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives,
Chair, Karen Barkey
Glenn Bowman, Comparative Perspectives on the Balkans and the Middle East
Anna Bigelow, Sacred Memories, Plural Realities: Remembering and Producing Shared Sacred Spaces
Dionigi Albera, Religious antagonism and shared sanctuaries in Algeria
Mete Hatay, Identity, Ethnic Conflict and Conflicted Heritage in Cyprus
Friday, May 7th
9:00 – 11:15 Anatolia
Chair, Osman Kavala
Robert Hayden, The Byzantine Mosque at Trilye: A Processual Analysis of Dominance, Sharing, Transformation and Tolerance
Rabia Harmanshah, Secularizing the Unsecularizable: A comparative study of the Haci Bektash Veli and the Mevlana Museums in Turkey
Zerrin Ozlem Biner, Re-consolidating the borders between self and other and between self and the state: Ethnographic explorations of past memories and present struggles between Syrian Christians and Kurds at the margins of contemporary Turkey
Tork Dalalyan, Kurds and the Armenians in Eastern Anatolia
11:30 – 13:00 Balkans
Chair, Arzu Ozturkmen
Tijana Krstic, The Ambiguous Politics of “Ambiguous Sanctuaries”: F. Hasluck and Historiography on Syncretism and Conversion to Islam in 15th – and 16th-century Ottoman Empire
Tolga Esmer, A Rebel, a Saint, and a Contested Shrine: The Türbe of the 16th
Century Sheikh Bali Efendi
14:45-16:45 Palestine/Israel
Chair, Elazar Barkan
Wendy Pullan, At the Boundaries of the Sacred, the Reinvention of Everyday Life in Jerusalem’s Al-Wad Street
Rassem Khamaisi, Conflict over Holy Sites in the City: Symptoms of the Conflict in Nature, Images and Type of the City
17:00 – 18:00 Roundtable Discussion