H-AMCA is a network devoted to the study of modern and contemporary art from the Arab world, Iran, and Turkey. We aim to create a network of interested scholars and organizations to enable historians and other scholars to easily communicate current research and teaching interests, and to promote scholarly cooperation between both persons and organizations.

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Discussion published by Sarah Johnson on Saturday, April 21, 2018

CFP: Book: Design and Eastern Arab Countries: Its Past, Present & Future

Expression of Interest Editors:
Dr Qassim Saad
Dr Tony Fry

The book title: Design and Eastern Arab Countries: Its Past, Present & Future
The aim of this book is to provide a clear overview of the region that stimulates debate, gives direction to the development of design education, and provides an agenda that would strategically inform practitioners.

Respondents to the Expression of Interest are invited to propose a topic for a 5,000-word essay in one of the three parts of the book.

Discussion published by Sandra Williams on Saturday, April 21, 2018

ANN: In the Fields of Empty Days: The Intersection of Past and Present in Iranian Art – LACMA – May 6 – September 9, 2018

In the Fields of Empty Days explores the continuous and inescapable presence of the past in Iranian society. This notion is revealed in art and literature in which ancient kings and heroes are used in later contexts as paradigms of virtue or as objects of derision, while long-gone Shi‘ite saints are evoked as champions of the poor and the oppressed. Beginning in the 14th century, illustrated versions of the Shahnama recast Iran’s pre-Islamic kings and heroes as contemporary Islamic rulers and were used to justify and legitimize the ruling elite.

Discussion published by Sarah Johnson on Tuesday, April 17, 2018

ANN: Aesthetics in Arabic- Theory and Practice (23-26 April 2018, NYC)

A series of four lectures by Kamal Boullata and José Miguel Puerta Vílchez. 

April 23-26, Silsila: Centre for Material Histories, 4 Washington Square North, New York University.

For abstracts and full details, please visit the Silsila website: 

http://as.nyu.edu/silsila/events.html

April 23, 6.30pm :

José Miguel Puerta Vílchez, 

Discussion published by Sarah Johnson on Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Symposium - Intersections: Visual Cultures of Islamic Cosmopolitanism (Dallas, 4-5 May 2018)

From: Vivek Gupta <vivek.gupta.w@gmail.com>
Date: 11 April 2018
Intersections: Visual Cultures of Islamic Cosmopolitanism
 
A collaboration between the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at UTD, Islamic Art Revival Series, a program of Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation and the Aga Khan Council for the Central United States, to be held at the University of Texas, Dallas, the Dallas Museum of Art and the Ismaili Jamatkhana in Plano.
 
Friday, May 4, 2018
Discussion published by Sarah Johnson on Tuesday, April 17, 2018

ANN: Celebrate the publication of "Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents" (April 28 Beirut and May 23 New York)

Please join us for launch events in Beirut on April 28 and in New York on May 23 to celebrate the publication of Modern Art in the Arab World: Primary Documents (2018), edited by Anneka Lenssen, Sarah Rogers, and Nada Shabout.

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