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
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