Search for dissertations about: "Simon Sheikh"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words Simon Sheikh.

  2. 1. Exhibition-Making and Political Imaginary : On Modalities and Potentialities of Curatorial Practice

    Author : Simon Sheikh; Konsthögskolan i Malmö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Exhibition-Making; politics; contemporary art; horizons; institution; articulation; critique; curating;

    Abstract : The Ph.D. project concerns itself with curatorial practice, its constituent modalities and potentialities. It consists of both a practical and a theoretical part. READ MORE

  4. 2. American Dervish: Making Mevlevism in the United States of America

    Author : Simon Sorgenfrei; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Sufism; Mevlevi Sufism; Esotericism; Performance; Ritual; Islam; Women and Religion; Rumi; Mevlevi Order of America; Sufism;

    Abstract : In the late 1970s, the Turkish Mevlevi Sufi sheikh Süleyman Dede arrived from Konya, Turkey, in the United States. There he initiated a number of individuals primarily belonging to American esoteric groups as sheikhs in the Mevlevi order, known in Euro-America as the whirling dervishes. READ MORE