Current projects - Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul

Marianne BOQVIST
Bodalsv. 45
18136 Lidingö
Tel: +46(0)707282005
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--------------------------------------------------------------Current projects
2013 – Co-organiser of a series of seminars on Syria to be held in Stockholm in spring
2013. Topics: Cultural heritage and preservation; language, literature and identity;
Religion politics and society,
2013 - Initiation of a multidisciplinary project on Symbols of power, SRII
2010- A study of the written source material concerning the region of Homs in the early
Ottoman period (16th-18th century) since 2010 within the framework of the, Upper Orontes
Mill Project, directed by Stephen McPhillips, University of Copenhagen and since January
2013 also for the Homs Survey Project, directed by Prof. Graham Philip, Durham
University
--------------------------------------------------------------Professional experience
2010- Deputy director of the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul-SRII, an institute
with a mandate to support research within the Human and Social sciences in the MENA
region, Turkey, the Balkans and Central Asia (www.srii.org).
Key responsibilities: Co-management of a small Turkish –Swedish team, project
initiation and management, presentation of activities to the board of trustees (in
collaboration with the director), grant writing and continuous dialogue with Swedish and
international funding agencies, organisation of meetings, workshops, seminars and
courses (master level and up), information about the SRII in Sweden and the Nordic
countries, collaboration with institutions for research, higher education, and museums in
Turkey and the MENA region, scientific editor for the publication series of the SRII;
Transcations and Papers.
Achievements: So far a 100% success rate for grant applications. Establishment of a
scientific review process for our publication series, initiation of several research projects
affiliated with the institute. Establishment of better exchange and collaboration with local
and international research institutes in Turkey and the region. Establishment of a series of
seminars on Pilgrimage, Trade and Colonisation; the imperial roads of the Middle East
2007-2012 Senior researcher at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, The impact
of Ottoman rule on
Urbanism, Ruralism and Architecture in the Provinces of the Empire and how to
preserve it: the case of Damascus, Visiting scholar McDondald institute of Archaeology,
Cambridge University (2009-2011), Visiting scholar, Skilliter center for Ottoman Studies,
Newnam college, Cambridge (2007-2008), visiting scholar French Institute of the Middle
East- IFPO (2007-2010). (Period including two maternity leaves, 2008-09, 2011)
Key responsibilities: Fieldwork and work with historical source material in Turkey and
Syria. Experience of permit applications with authorities in Syria and Turkey, writing up
grant applications, networking with researchers in the field, fieldwork, experience of work
in libraries and archives, preparation of articles and papers for conferences.
Achievements: presentation of papers in several international workshops and
publications in peer reviewed journals (see bibliography)
2003-2007 Research Advisor at Sida’s Department of Research Co-operation – SAREC,
unit for Human Sciences for Social Development – HUMAN.
Key responsibilities: Project initiation and management, administration of public
funds, collaboration and negotiation with institutions of Higher Education in developing
countries (Africa, Latin America and Asia), input in the cooperation strategies for partner
countries (MENA and Tanzania), preparation of fact sheets, and visual/analytical
frameworks for donor engagement, pre-positioning and negotiations the management of
partnerships, institutional relationships
Main areas: Education and health-systems, agriculture, rural development and
infrastructure, built environment, cultural rehabilitation, sustainable tourism, culture and
sustainable development, cultural Policy and gender mainstreaming, cooperation with
local NGO’s, multilateral organisations and donors
Achievements: Improvement of the gender mainstreaming methodology within the
department, an improved understanding for the importance of the MENA region as a
collaboration partner, and for culture as a factor of social development within the
department. Improved understanding of the role of education for the implementation of
human rights and citizenship in the developing world.
2002 Project “Debbane Palace - The museum of the Ottoman House”, Saida, Lebanon,
Key responsibilities: Co-designer of the original project. Shared responsibility for the
archaeological study of the house prior to restoration and for the study of Ottoman
documents and French consular reports concerning the Palace in the initial phase of the
project.
2001-2002 Museum of Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm,
Digitalisation of the Islamic Collection.
Key responsibilities: Background research on provenience and characterisation of artefacts,
written description, brief bibliography and sometimes photographs integrated in the
museum database (http://collections.smvk.se/carlotta-mhm). Assisting the Curator in
preparing exhibitions, guide.
1996-2000 Receptionist at the Swedish Student House in the Cité Universitaire, Paris,
Occasional translation assignments Swedish-French: Thalassa (France 3), TVdocumentary on Sweden, Canal+, subtitling of Ingmar Bergman’s, Smultronstället.
--------------------------------------------------------------Languages
Swedish (mother tongue), French, English (fluent), German, Norwegian, Danish (fluent in
reading, some spoken), Classic and Modern Standard Arabic, Dutch, Spanish, Italian
(reading), Colloquial Syro-Lebanese Arabic (spoken), Modern Turkish (beginner, some
reading), Osmanli (elementary, some reading).
--------------------------------------------------------------Education
University of Sorbonne-Paris IV: 1995-2006 (PhD)
Department of Islamic Art History and Archaeology, Sorbonne Paris IV. Topic:
Architecture et développement urbain a Damas de la conquête Ottomane (922 H./151617) à la fondation du waqf de Murad Pasha (1017 H./1607-08), PhD Defense, 21 January
2006, Mention très honorable avec les féclicitations du jury. Associate scholar, Institut
Français d’Etudes Arabes de Damas - IFPO/IFEAD (resident 1999-2003)
2000-2003 Trainee in the historical construction techniques within the archaeological
project Citadelle de Damas, supervised by J.-C. Bessac and S. Berthier.
1998 DEA (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies) of Islamic Art History and Archaeology,
Sorbonne Paris IV, Topic: L'architecture d'utilité publique sous Sulaymân Qânûnî au
Proche-Orient, mention bien. Methodology seminar in Art History and Archaeology.
1997 Maîtrise of Islamic Art History and Archaeology, Sorbonne Paris IV, mention bien,
Methodology workshops in Art History and Archaeology.
1996 Licence of Art History and Archaeology, Sorbonne Paris-IV (ERASMUS): Medieval
Western Art, Islamic Art History and Archaeology, Late antique Archaeology.
Uppsala University: 1992-1997
(MA)
1997 Master of Arts in Islamic Art History and Archaeology.
1996 Bachelor of Arts
1992-1995 Cultural Anthropology B, paper, Women’s roles in Touareg society, Early
cultures, paper, The Taberna in the Roman city, Cultural Anthropology A, paper,
Touaregs, a people without a future?, Islamic and African Art History B, paper, Touareg
jewellery, African or Islamic tradition?, General and Western Art History, A
Brinellschool, Fagersta, Sweden
1988-1991 Humanities and Latin specialisation
--------------------------------------------------------------Specialisation courses
Logical Framework Analysis – LFA, Environmental Impact Assessment, Sida (2005)
Gender Equality in Development Co-operation, Sida (2004)
Applied rhetorics, organised by Sida, (2004)
Summer school for PhD students, L’analyse spatiale, un outillage pour l’étude historique
des villes, IFPO/IFEAD, Damascus, organised by J-L. Arnaud and S. Weber, August 2002.
Summer school, Methodes d’étude des constructions historiques en pierre, organised by
CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in Lattes/Sommières, September
2001
Classical Arabic, colloquial Syro-lebanese Arabic and palaeography (1998-2003), D.U.
(Diplôme Universitaire) in Classical Arabic, Sorbonne Paris-IV (1999)
Course in Modern Standard Arabic, IFEAD Damascus, July 1998, July 1999
Topographic methodology for the study of archaeology and architectural history, Sorbonne
Paris IV (1999)
Introduction course to the Arabic Language and Literature, Uppsala Summer University,
1995
--------------------------------------------------------------Assignments
2012-2014 Co-curator of an exhibition project on the theme Harem, a collaboration
between the Swedish Museums for World culture, Turkish and international museums
2007, 2013 Responsible for the composition of evaluaton groups and for the evaluation
process of applications in the Sidas programme for Swedish researchers
2004-2010 Occasional lecturer in Islamic Art History, Stockholm University; teaching
and examination of second year students.
2002 Project”Citadelle de Damas”,
Co-responsible with employees of the DGMAS for the classification and digitalisation of
archaeological small finds (glass) in a bilingual database (French-Arabic), financed by the
EURO MEDA-program.
--------------------------------------------------------------Publications
Damas Ottomane et Médievale, Bulletin d’Etudes Orientales 2012, vol. 61, éd. M.
Eychenne & M. Boqvist, Damascus 2012
“Building an Ottoman City. Contributions of Šamsī Aḥmad Pasha and Lālā Muṣṭafā Pasha
to the urban landscape of 16th century Damascus”, in : Bulletin d’Etudes Orientales 2012,
vol. 61, Damas Ottomane et Médievale éd. M. Eychenne & M. Boqvist, Damascus 2012, p.
191-208.
Architecture et développement urbain a Damas de la conquête Ottomane (922 H./1516-17)
à la fondation du waqf de Murad Pasha (1017 H./1607-08), (forthcoming, IFPO online
editions)
"Ottoman baths in Syria? A preliminary study of bath houses in 16th century Ottoman
külliye in the province of Damascus", (forthcoming, proceedings of the Balneorient
colloquium in Damascus, November 2009, IFPO/IFAO)
“Building and Ottoman landscape: the complexes of Sinan Pasha on the Imperial roads of
Syria” Turcica 43, Peeters, p. 363-387.
"Buildings and identity in early Ottoman Damascus; An interpretation of two real estate
transactions, registered on the 13 rābi al-ṯānī, 993h./13 April 1585 in Sijill 1 Damascus", in
the proceedings of «Al-‘amr kama fihi»!: examen critique des documents des tribunaux
ottomans du Bilad Al-Sham, Workshop 5-6 June 2006, IFPO, Damascus (forthcoming,
IFPO-OIB, Damascus-Beirut)
"“Centre” and “periphery” in the Syrian countryside: the architecture of mosques in
governmental foundations on the Ottoman imperial roads", (in: Proceedings of the
international conference “Centres and Peripheries in Ottoman architecture: rediscovering
a Balkan Heritage”, Cultural Heritage Without Borders Report series no. 9/2010, ed.
Maximilan Hartmuth, Sarajevo, 2011, p. 80-89).
"Visualising the Ottoman presence in Damascus: Interpreting 16th century building
complexes”, (in: Istanbul as seen from a distance, Transactions, vol. 20, Swedish Research
Institute of Istanbul, vol. 20, ed. Elisabeth Özdalga, M. Sait Özervarli, Feryal Tansug,
Istanbul 2011, p. 121-138)
Ottoman Women Builders. The Architectural Patronage of Hadice Turhan Sultan, Women
and Gender in the Early Modern World, Journal of Early Modern History, Vol. 12, No. 5.,
pp. 452-454.
Architecture et développement urbain a Damas de la conquête Ottomane (922 H./1516-17)
a la fondation du waqf de Murad Pasha (1017 H./1607-08), PhD dissertation, Histoire de
L’Art et d Archéologie Islamiques, Université de Sorbonne, Paris IV, January 2006.
"Les chantiers de construction de la citadelle de Damas : méthodologie et résultats
préliminaires dans le quartier de la salle à colonnes" in, "Aparejos constructivos
medievales en el Mediterráneo Occidental, Estudio Arqueológico de las Técnicas
constructivas", Arqueologia de la Arquitectura, 4 (2005), p. 31-43 (collaboration J.-C.
Bessac).
“Building materials and construction techniques”, in, Bayt al-Aqqad, The History and
Restoration of a House in Old Damascus the Danish Institute of Damascus, ed. P.,
Mortensen, Proceedings of the Danish instiute of Damascus, 4, Aarhus University Press,
2005, p.129-140.
“La recherche de nouveaux éléments concernant l’histoire des chantiers successifs et des
techniques de construction de la citadelle de Damas. Une étude sur, les matériaux de
construction, l’outillage, les techniques de taille et les formules géométriques des
ouvertures”, Bulletin d’Études Orientales, IFEAD, Damaskus, 2002.
“The Rawḍat al-Ahbāb fī Siyār al-Nabī wa al-Ahl wa al-Ashāb in the Museum of
Mediterranean and Near Eastern Antiquities”, Bulletin of the Museum of Mediterranean
and Near Eastern Antiquities vol. 31, Stockholm 1998, p. 111-128.