Yusuf Temizcan, Academic Studies Association (ILEM)
Yusuf Ziya Gökçek, Marmara University (Türkiye)
24 – 30 July 2023
The biennial ILEM International Summer School aims to serve as a forum for discussion of major issues concerning the Islamic world by bringing together academics, researchers and artists from diverse backgrounds. The broader theme of the 8th edition of the summer school will be Rethinking Art and Aesthetics in the Islamic World: Concepts, Theories, and Practices.
The summer school will explore Islamic arts, which are usually analyzed in connection with the notions of “tradition” or “mystical experience” in contemporary intellectual and artistic circles, from theoretical, conceptual, and socio-political perspectives, and open up for discussion the “axial shifts” or even the absence of axis, observable on both ontological and epistemological planes. The purpose here is to shed light on what is beyond the conditional and prejudiced forms of artistic expression. This can be expressed as an attempt to study the possibility of producing aesthetic formulas as the golden middle to save the beautiful from the vortex of two extreme poles of “acculturation” and “cultural schizophrenia.”
This is also an attempt to build an aesthetic bridge between the distant past and the future by considering cultural differences as richness. Indeed, the successful result of this attempt is directly proportional to the level of awareness about the recent past and present. Is the juxtaposition of the terms “Islam” and “art” fully comprehended and theoretically justified? How are the aesthetic values and the understanding of beauty, which are intended to be passed on from the past to the future, reflected in various arts today? From which perspective is the notion of universality addressed, if addressed at all, in the art events that directly or indirectly deal with Islamic aesthetics?
To this end, the summer school will be interested in the analysis of relevant issues from three main perspectives
Ahmet Köroğlu, Istanbul University (Türkiye)
Ali Eşlik, Oranje Instituut (Netherlands)
Ayaz Asad, Ibn Khaldun University, (Türkiye)
Binazir Hashimzade, Ibn Haldun University (Türkiye)
Elmin Aliyev (Head), Istanbul Medeniyet University (Türkiye)
Emin Lelic, Salisbury University (USA)
Esra Çifci, Marmara University (Türkiye)
Muhammed Hüseyin Mercan, Marmara University (Türkiye)
Ömer Faruk Yeni, Academic Studies Association (ILEM)
Semih Yakut, Istanbul University (Türkiye)
Suhair Aljahlani, ICYF
Süleyman Güder, Istanbul University, (Türkiye)
Şeyda Karabatak (Secretariat), Academic Studies Association (ILEM)
Tuğba Ceren Cerci, ICYF
Wasamon Sanasen, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (Thailand)
Alparslan Babaoğlu, Ebru Artist, TUBITAK (Türkiye)
Amal Ouchenane, ICYF
Asiye Kafalıer Dönmez, Muzahhib, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University (Türkiye)
Ayşe Taşkent, Istanbul University (Türkiye)
Ayşe Üstün, Sakarya University (Türkiye)
Bager Akbay, Artist, Marmara University (Türkiye)
Bahattin Yaman, Süleyman Demirel University (Türkiye)
Berat Açıl, Marmara University (Türkiye)
Betül Bilgin, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University (Türkiye)
Bilal Badat, University of Tübingen (Germany)
Bilal Sezer, Uşak University (Türkiye)
Ćazim Hadžimejlić, Calligrapher, University of Sarajevo Academy of Fine Arts (Bosnia)
Cihangir Aşurov, Fatih Sultan Mehmet Vakıf University (Türkiye)
Doris Behrens-Abouseif, SOAS University of London (UK)
Eyüp Al, Marmara University (Türkiye)
Fatih Özkafa, Calligrapher, Marmara University (Türkiye)
Gülnihal Küpeli, Muzahhib, Marmara University (Türkiye)
Gürcan Mavili, Bookbinder, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar University (Türkiye)
Havva Kök Arslan, Üsküdar University (Türkiye)
Hesna Haral, Nişantaşı University (Türkiye)
Hilal Kazan, Calligrapher, Istanbul University (Türkiye)
Idham Mohammed Hanash, The World Islamic Sciences and Education University (Jordan)
Irvin C. Schick, Harvard University (USA)
İbrahim Halil Üçer, Istanbul Medeniyet University (Türkiye)
İnci Ayan Birol, Muzahhib, Marmara University (Emeritus) (Türkiye)
İskender Erol, Istanbul University (Türkiye)
Karim Lahham, Tabah Research (UAE)
Kübra Bilgin Tiryaki, İstanbul University (Türkiye)
Latif Karagöz, Istanbul Medeniyet University (Türkiye)
Mehdi Mohammadzadeh, Tabriz Islamic Art University (Iran)
Mehmet Memiş, Calligrapher, Sakarya University (Türkiye)
Muharrem Hafız, Musician, Istanbul University (Türkiye)
Mustapha Ben-Hamouche, University of Blida 1 (Algeria)
Nuria Garcia Masip, Calligrapher, Sorbonne University (France)
Osman Öksüzoğlu, Ministry of Culture and Tourism (Türkiye)
Ömer Faruk Taşkale, Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar University (Türkiye)
Paul Hepworth, Independent Manuscript Conservator (Türkiye)
Samir Mahmoud, Usul Academy (USA)
Sarena Abdullah, Universiti Sains Malaysia (Malaysia)
Serhat Kula, Yunus Emre Institute
Seyyed Hossein Nasr, George Washington University (USA)
Uğur Karataş, Samsun Ondokuz Mayıs University (Türkiye)
Valerie Gonzalez, SOAS University of London (UK)
Yusuf Ziya Gökçek, Marmara University (Türkiye)
Zeynep Yıldız Abbasoğlu, Independent Music Scholar (Türkiye)
Abdullah Eren, Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (Türkiye)
Baha Tanman, Istanbul University (Türkiye)
Çiçek Derman, Muzahhib, Haliç University (Türkiye)
Fatih Andı, Fatih Sultan Mehmed Vakıf University (Türkiye)
İhsan Fazlıoğlu, Istanbul Medeniyet University (Türkiye)
Mahmud Erol Kılıç, IRCICA
Mohamed Zekeriya, Calligrapher (USA)
Mustafa Sabri Küçükaşçı, Fatih Sultan Mehmed Vakıf University (Türkiye)
Sadık Ünay, IRCICA
Selçuk Mülayim, Marmara University (Emeritus) (Türkiye)
Sinan Genim, Architecht, Marmara University (Emeritus) (Türkiye)
Şeref Ateş, Yunus Emre Institute (Türkiye)
Taha Eğri, Academic Studies Association (ILEM)
Turan Koç, Sabahattin Zaim University (Türkiye)
Uğur Derman, Calligrapher, Marmara University (Emeritus) (Türkiye)
Zeynep Gemuhluoğlu, Marmara University (Türkiye)
Aziz Mahmut Hüdayi Mahallesi, Türbekapısı Sk. No:13, 34672 Üsküdar/İstanbul, Turkey
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