HIAA - Programme for the Fourth Biennial Symposium, October 16-18 2014

From: Coordinator Conference <akm.conferencecoordinator@akdn.org>

Date: May 2, 2014

HISTORIANS OF ISLAMIC ART ASSOCIATION

FORMS OF KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURES OF LEARNING IN ISLAMIC ART

Fourth Biennial Symposium, October 16-18, 2014:
The Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada
www.agakhanmuseum.org

Symposium Program

October 16:

15:00-18:00 Optional Individual visit to the galleries

18:00-18:45 Keynote Address: The Chini-Khaneh as “Library”. Lisa Golombek, Curator Emeritus (Islamic Art), Royal Ontario Museum

19:00-21:00 Welcoming Reception: The Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

October 17:

Panel 1: Collections and Exhibitions between Knowledge and Imagination
9:00-10:40
Chair: Avinoam Shalem

Mariam Rosser-Owen and Mercedes Volait, Can Collections Speak? What We Can Learn from an Early Collection of Islamic Art.

Irina Koshoridze, From Private Collectors to Public Institutions

Solmaz Mohammadzadeh Kive, Staging this Islamic Thing: The Conflicts in Exhibitions of “Islamic Art”

Yuka Kadoi, Rethinking Intermediality in the Study of Medieval Islamic Iranian Architecture: Photographs, Exhibitions and the Persian- Gothic Thesis in the 1930s.

10:40-11:00 COFFEE BREAK

Panel 2: Knowledge and the Building Traditions
11:00-12:40
Chair: Gülru Necipoğlu

Esra Akın-Kıvanç, From Vasari to Mustafa Ali: Contextualizing the Written Sources of Islamic Art History

Gül Kale, Proportional Relationships: The Science of Surveying and the Architect’s Cubit in Ottoman Architecture

Ünver Rüstem, Building the Ottoman Baroque: Architectural Practice in Eighteenth- Century Istanbul

Yasser Tabbaa, The Light of the Imam: Ishraqi Dimensions in the Mosque of Shaykh Lufallah (1603-19) in Isfahan

12:40-14:00 LUNCH

Panel 3: Crafting Knowledge in Persian and Turkish Book Arts
14:00-15:40
Chair: Christiane Gruber

Elizabeth Rauh, Processes of Depiction (tasvir): An Illustrated Manuscript of Yusuf va Zulaykha Attributed to Mu‘in Musavvir

Ashley Dimmig, Ottoman Calligraphic Albums as Storehouses of Knowledge and Teaching Tools

İlker Evrim Binbaş, “Shadow of the Ancestors”: Reconfiguring the Past in Ottoman Genealogical Trees

Evyn Kropf, “Sensible Metaphors”: Pictograms in the Transmission Of ‘Abd al-Wahhab al-Sha‘rani’s al-Mizan al-kubra

15:40-16:00 COFFEE BREAK

Panel 4A: Pentagons and Decagons in Islamic Art
14:00-17:20
Chair: Hashim Sarkis

Carol Bier, Pentagons and Decagons in Islamic Art: Geometry Made Manifest

Eric Broug, The Importance of Pentagons and Decagons in Islamic Art

Jay Bonner, The Formative Role of the Decagon and Pentagon in the Development of Islamic Geometric Design

Workshops 4B: TBD
16:00-17:00

17:30 onwards Departure for the Royal Ontario Museum for viewing the Tiraz Exhibition “Cairo under Wraps”

October 18:

Panel 5: Faking It? Imitating, Copying and Forging Persianate Art and Architecture
9:00-10:40
Chair: Karin Ruehrdanz

Simon Rettig, A Genuine Aggregation of Styles? Questioning the Authenticity of Paintings in the Vever Khamsa of Nizami

Yael Rice, Made in the U.S.A.: On a Safavid Cubiculum in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

Igor Demchenko, Authentic Monuments in the Forged Tradition: Inventing and Training Ustos in Soviet Central Asia

Rachel Ward, Qaysar and the Naples Globe

10:40-11:00 COFFEE BREAK

Panel 6: The Word Embellished
11:00-12:40
Chair: Sheila Blair

Noha Abou-Khatwa, A Mamluk Calligrapher’s Tradition of Learning: The Career and Works of ‘Abd al-Rahmān ibn al-Sāyigh

Nourane Ben Azzouna, Of Proportion and Rhythm: Converging Discourses on Calligraphy and Music in Medieval Islam

Fateme Montazeri and Arash Shirinbab, Scripture or Art Instruction? A Study of Fakhr al-Ashraf’s Lithographed Quran and its Calligraphy Treatise

Ayşin Yoltar-Yıldırım, The Question of Well-Rounded Artists of the Book at the Ottoman Court

12:40-14:00 LUNCH

Panel 7: Embedding and Disseminating Knowledge in the Art of the Book
14:00-15:40
Chair: Persis Berlekamp

Amy S. Landau, Safavid Attitudes Toward Sacred Images in the Written and Visual Record

Aslıhan Erkmen, Illustrated Biographical Writings as Educational and Visual Memorable

Anastassiia Botchkareva, BetweenTimurid Prince and Mughal Emperor: Legacy in Transmission

Stefan Kamola, “With all elaboration”: Rashīd al-Dīn and the Display of Knowledge

15:40-16:00 COFFEE BREAK

Panel 8: What Artist and Artisans Knew
14:00-17:40
Chair: Stefan Weber

Friederike Voigt, The Rediscovery of Underglaze Painting in Late Qajar Iran: The Master Potter ‘Ali Mohammed Esfahani

Miriam Ali-de-Unzaga, Secrecy as Adornment: Transmitting Knowledge During the Weaving Process in Rural Morocco

Marcus Milwright, Insiders and Outsiders in the Transmission of Knowledge: The Case of Traditional Craft Practices in Greater Syria

Stephane Pradines, The Rock Crystal of the Zanj: From Madagascar to Fatimid Cairo