Day five of the Symposium featured five presentations. The first was by Amanda Boetzkes, Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Guelph, and her presentation was titled, “Behind the Sun: The Theater of Oil Expenditure.”
The second presentation was by Elizabeth Rauh, Assistant Professor of Modern Art and Visual Cultures at the American University in Cairo, with, “Iridescent Modernism: The Troubling Artistic Legacy of Pearl Diving in the Persian Gulf.”
The third presentation was by Pamela Karimi, Associate Professor, Art Education, Art History and Media Studies at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, “Survival by Design: Oil Crisis, the Middle East, and the US Quest for Lunar Settlements.”
The fourth presentation was by Michelle Apotsos, Associate Professor of Artat Williams College. Her presentation was titled, “The Earth is a Masjid”: Tanzania’s First Eco-Mosque as Environmental Advocate.”
The final presentation on day five was by Nisa Ari, Beinecke Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art, “Wasteland, Promised Land, Homeland: Painting “Flora Palaestina” Before the Nakba.”
The moderator was Jochen Sokoly, Associate Professor of Islamic Art at VCUarts Qatar.