Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba: Door of Redemption |
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Historians of Islamic Art Association
2021 Biennial Symposium
Regime Change
University of Michigan
April 15 - 18, 2021
Online Panels
Thursday, April 15th
12:00 - 12:15 pm | Welcome Remarks |
Christiane Gruber |
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12:15 - 1:45 pm | Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC) Distinguished Lecture |
Introduction by Kishwar Rizvi Pulling the Past into the Present: Curating Islamic Art in a Changing World |
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2:15 - 4:15 pm | Communicating Islamic Art History |
Islamic Art History and its Networks “In Two Rooms, A Universe”: Communicating Islamic Visual Culture Toward a Global Islamic Art for an Interconnected World Islamic Perceptual Culture: Towards Another Episteme Discussant
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Friday, April 16th
9:00 - 10:30 am | Craft and its Potentials: Histories from Below and Beside | |
Objects-in-the-Negative, or, the Presence of Absence: Pre-modern Molds and Craft Narratives Art History from Below and Outside: Silk Velvet and Cotton Double-Cloth Outside the Gallery of Masterpieces: Calouste Gulbenkian’s Embroideries, a Tale of Turbulence Discussant |
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10:30 - 11:00 am | Break | |
11:00 - 12:30 pm | Political Transformations through Architectural Interventions in Islamic South Asia |
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Babur and the Transformation of Gwalior’s Rock-Hewn Tirthankara The Earliest Mosques of Regime Change in the Deccan Domes on a Medieval Temple at Anwa: Continuities in Construction Methods Across Deccani Political Formations Discussant |
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12:30 - 1:45 pm | Break | |
1:45 - 2:00 pm | In Memoriam: Esin Atıl | |
Marianna Shreve Simpson Research Associate, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania |
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2:00 - 3:30 pm | The Labor of Names: Signatures and Artistic Practice | |
On Signature, Labor, and Authorship in Medieval and Early Modern Islam The Weaver’s Signature? The Division of Labor in the Production Signatures in Stone: Names, Prefixes, and Design Methods Discussant |
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3:30 - 4:00 pm | Break | |
4:00 - 5:00 pm | Information Session with the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT: New Material and Updates to Archnet | |
Michael Toler, Interim Program Head and Archnet Content Manager, Matt Saba, Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Architecture, Betsy Baldwin, Collections Archivist, |
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Saturday, April 17th
9:00 - 11:00 am | Looking at the Margins: A Perspective Change in the Study of Qur’an Manuscripts |
Shifting Regimes, Reshaping Manuscripts: Qur’an Production in the Borno Sultanate The Re-endowment of Almohad Qurʾāns under the Early Marinids (circa 1269-1300 CE) Migrating Manuscript Art: ‘Sulawesi Diaspora’ Styles of Qur’anic Illumination From Listener to Reader: The Qur’an’s Practice in the 11th Century CE Discussant
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11:00 - 11:30 am | Break |
11:30 - 1:30 pm | Islamic Art and Architecture in sub-Saharan Africa: |
Transcultural Dynamics in the Global Fourteenth Century | |
Mamluk Metalwork in West Africa: Material Dialogues in the Fourteenth Century Glocalization, Material Culture, Innovation, and Exchange in Pre/Fourteenth-Century West Africa The Fourteenth Century: An Archaeological Perspective from Islamic Eastern Ethiopia Islamic Art and Architecture along the Swahili Coast: Connectivity, Transcultural Entanglements, and Aesthetic Choices in the Global Fourteenth Century Discussant
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1:30 - 3:00 pm | Break |
3:00 - 4:30 pm | New Regimes of Perception in Early Modern Iran |
The Ontology of a Kerman Vase: Thing and Image in Early Modern Iran Sensing Time and Sound: Clocks and Rhythms of Life in Safavid Isfahan Points of Vision: Reception of a Late Safavid Tiled Arcade Discussant |
Sunday, April 18th
9:30 - 11:30 am | Fragments, Relics, Rubble, Memory | |
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Erased Heritage of the Golden Horde: Forgetting and Remembering in Russian/Soviet Historiography Index, Icon, Place: The Politics and Practices of Commemoration Following Turkey’s July 15, 2016 Coup Attempt Martyrs, Relics, and Muhammad’s Shinbone: De-Islamicizing the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba in the 16th Century From Stone to Dust: The Life of the Kufic Inscribed Frieze of Wuqro Cherqos in Tigray, Ethiopia Discussant
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11:30 - 1:00 pm |
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1:00 - 3:00 pm |
Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Regime Changes in Technologies and Media |
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Lithography and Its Impact on Persian Book Illustration in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Widening the Horizons of Mecca and Medina with Photographic Possibilities Sabiha Göloğlu, Postdoctoral University Assistant, University of Vienna Critical Mass: Photography and Ubiquity in 1920s-Turkish Media Visual Hagiographies of a Senegalese Sufi Saint Discussant
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3:00 - 3:15 pm |
Closing Remarks |
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Christiane Gruber Professor and Chair, History of Art Department, University of Michigan, and President-Elect, Historians of Islamic Art Association |
The 2021 HIAA Biennial Symposium Committee:
Christiane Gruber, organizer
Bihter Esener, managing organizer
Anneka Lenssen, Michael Chagnon, and Alain George, committee members