{"id":572,"date":"2016-11-04T22:01:54","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T22:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/?p=572"},"modified":"2016-11-04T22:01:54","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T22:01:54","slug":"akdcmit-program-head-at-the-aga-khan-university-institute-for-the-study-of-muslim-civilizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/2016\/11\/04\/akdcmit-program-head-at-the-aga-khan-university-institute-for-the-study-of-muslim-civilizations\/","title":{"rendered":"AKDC@MIT Program Head at the Aga Khan University, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_574\" style=\"width: 377px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/11\/arch-london.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-574\" class=\" wp-image-574\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/11\/arch-london-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Palmyra Arch Replica. Trafalgar Square, London, UK. April, 2016.\" width=\"367\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/11\/arch-london-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/11\/arch-london-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/11\/arch-london-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/11\/arch-london-624x351.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2016\/11\/arch-london.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palmyra Arch Replica. Trafalgar Square, London, UK. April, 2016.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sharon C. Smith, Ph.D., spoke at the <em>Media in Muslim Contexts: Inventing and Reinventing Identities<\/em> conference sponsored by the Aga Khan University (International), in the United Kingdom, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, 3-4 November 2016. There, she presented her paper &#8220;The Past Demands an Answer: What Becomes of History in the Digital Era?&#8221; exploring the opportunities, constraints, intentions, and consequences&#8211;planned and not&#8211;of the production, presentation, and dissemination of digital projects about and\/or from the Middle East writ large. The conference was simulcasted with campuses in Nairobi and Karachi.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharon C. Smith, Ph.D., spoke at the Media in Muslim Contexts: Inventing and Reinventing Identities conference sponsored by the Aga Khan University (International), in the United Kingdom, Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilizations, 3-4 November 2016. There, she presented her paper &#8220;The Past Demands an Answer: What Becomes of History in the Digital Era?&#8221; exploring the opportunities, constraints, intentions, and consequences&#8211;planned and not&#8211;of the production, presentation, and dissemination of digital projects about and\/or from the Middle East writ large. The conference was simulcasted with campuses in Nairobi and Karachi. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_this_an_event":false},"categories":[268],"tags":[317,362,367,403,433,453],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-akdc-news","tag-architecture","tag-digital-humanities","tag-digitization","tag-history","tag-middle-east","tag-muslim-socities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}