Day four of the Symposium featured four presentations. The first was by Anna M. Gade, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Education in the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Her presentation was titled, “Truth of Consequences: The Floating Mosque and Material Ethics.”
The second presentation was by Nada Shabout, Regent Professor of Art History and Coordinator of the Contemporary Arab and Muslim Cultural Studies Initiative (CAMCSI) at the University of North Texas, with “A Threatened Imaginary: Environmental Interventions in Iraqi Art.”
The third presentation was by Huma Gupta, Lecturer, Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT, with, “Visualizing Maʻdan in Mayzara: The Hidden History of Urban ‘Wetlands’ in Baghdad.”
The final presentation on day four was by Rachel Winter, PhD Candidate at the University of California, Santa Barbara, with “Aestheticizing the Ecologies of the Syrian Refugee Crisis.”
The moderator was Jochen Sokoly, Associate Professor of Islamic Art at VCUarts Qatar.