TEACHER TRAINING

SATURDAY SEMINARS FOR TEACHERS

Together with NYU's Steinhardt School of Education, the Kevorkian Center will convene a series of Saturday Seminars for Teachers for NY area teachers and teachers in training. Featuring leading experts in the field, the seminars have been designed to help secondary school educators develop an interdisciplinary approach to teaching the history of the Middle East. All K-12 educators are invited to participate in our next STS.

WAYS OF SEEING:
Contemporary Art in the Middle East
Saturday April 5, 2008
Kevorkian Building,
50 Washington Square South
Corner of West 4th & Sullivan Streets

Schedule:
10:00 – 11:00 Teaching the Middle East through the Visual Arts, by Shiva Balaghi
11:10 – 12:10 Contemporary Arab Art, by Nada Shabout
12:20 – 1:20 Ways of Seeing the Middle East as an Artist, by Huda Lutfi
1:20 – 2:20 Middle Eastern Lunch

Shiva Balaghi is Associate Director and Outreach Coordinator of the Kevorkian Center at NYU, where she teaches courses on gender studies and cultural history of the Middle East. Her books include Saddam Hussein: A Biography (2006); Picturing Iran: Art, Revolution, and Society (2002), and Reconstructing Gender in the Middle East: Tradition, Identity, and Power (1994). Focusing on contemporary Iranian art, Balaghi will discuss ways to use contemporary art in the classroom.

A professor of Islamic culture and history at the American University of Cairo, Huda Lutfi has emerged as one of Egypt’s most notable contemporary image makers. Her art brings together a feminist sensibility, with a broad knowledge of Arab Muslim culture, and a dedication to architectural preservation. Through the making of art and in her writing and lectures, Lutfi seeks to problematize censorship—its impact on the artist and the strategies artists use to confront it. Based in the Townhouse Gallery in Cairo, she has exhibited widely in Egypt and also in France, Netherlands, Germany, Greece and the USA. Her scholarly publications include Al Quds al-Mamlukiyya: A history of Mamluk Jerusalem Based on the Haram Documents (1985).

Nada Shabout is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of North Texas, where she teaches courses on contemporary Middle Eastern art. This term, she is a visiting professor at MIT. In the summer, she will be going to Jordan, where she will be teaching art history at the University of Jordan as a Fulbright Scholar. Her recent book, Modern Arab Art (2007) is a seminal study on the subject.

Location for Teacher Seminars:

Kevorkian Building ,
50 Washington Square South
corner of West 4th & Sullivan Streets

NOTE: If you register and can not attend, PLEASE call 212-998-8877 24 hours before the seminar!

These seminars are free of charge, but space is limited.
To register for the workshop, please return this completed form via fax to 212-995-4144 or email it to kevorkian.center@nyu.