Symposium Program

Christiane Gruber
Professor and Chair, History of Art Department, University of Michigan, and President-Elect, Historians of Islamic Art Association

Introduction by Kishwar Rizvi
Professor, Yale University, and President, Historians of Islamic Art Association

Pulling the Past into the Present: Curating Islamic Art in a Changing World
Stefan Weber, Director, Museum for Islamic Art, Pergamon Museum, Berlin

Islamic Art History and its Networks
Nancy Um, Professor, Binghamton University

“In Two Rooms, A Universe”: Communicating Islamic Visual Culture 
to a Museum Audience 
Ladan Akbarnia, Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art, The San Diego Museum of Art

Toward a Global Islamic Art for an Interconnected World 
Stephennie Mulder, Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin

Islamic Perceptual Culture: Towards Another Episteme 
Wendy M. K. Shaw, Professor, Free University, Berlin

Discussant 
Mika Natif, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies,
The George Washington University

Objects-in-the-Negative, or, the Presence of Absence: Pre-modern Molds and Craft Narratives
Margaret S. Graves, Associate Professor, Indiana University

Art History from Below and Outside: Silk Velvet and Cotton Double-Cloth 
Amanda Philips, Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

Outside the Gallery of Masterpieces: Calouste Gulbenkian’s Embroideries, a Tale of Turbulence
Jessica Hallet, Curator of Early Modern Middle East, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum

Discussant
Ruba Kana‘an, Assistant Professor, The University of Toronto, Mississauga, and Editor, H-Islamart

Babur and the Transformation of Gwalior’s Rock-Hewn Tirthankara 
Ross Lee Bernhaut, Ph.D. student, University of Michigan

The Earliest Mosques of Regime Change in the Deccan 
Mohit Manohar, Ph.D. candidate, Yale University

Domes on a Medieval Temple at Anwa: Continuities in Construction Methods Across Deccani Political Formations 
Pushkar Sohoni, Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research

Discussant 
Chanchal B. Dadlani, Associate Professor, Wake Forest University

On Signature, Labor, and Authorship in Medieval and Early Modern Islam 
Lamia Balafrej, Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

The Weaver’s Signature? The Division of Labor in the Production 
of Lampas Woven Silks 
Corinne Mühlemann, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bern

Signatures in Stone: Names, Prefixes, and Design Methods 
at the Makli Necropolis 
Fatima Quraishi, Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside

Discussant 
Marianna Shreve Simpson, Research Associate, Schoenberg Institute
for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania

Michael Toler, Interim Program Head and Archnet Content Manager,
Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT

Matt Saba, Visual Resources Librarian for Islamic Architecture,
Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT

Betsy Baldwin, Collections Archivist,
Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT

Shifting Regimes, Reshaping Manuscripts: Qur’an Production in the Borno Sultanate
Dmitry Bondarev, Head of West Africa Research Projects, University of Hamburg

Keeping Up Appearances: Later Qur’ans from al-Andalus 
Umberto Bongianino, Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture, University of Oxford

Migrating Manuscript Art: ‘Sulawesi Diaspora’ Styles of Qur’anic Illumination 
Annabel Teh Gallop, Lead Curator for Southeast Asia, The British Library

From Listener to Reader: The Qur’an’s Practice in the 11th Century CE 
Alya Karame, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, The American University of Beirut

Discussant 
Evyn Kropf, Curator, Islamic Manuscripts Collection, and Librarian for Middle Eastern & North African Studies and Religious Studies, University of Michigan

Mamluk Metalwork in West Africa: Material Dialogues in the Fourteenth Century
Raymond Silverman, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan

Glocalization, Material Culture, Innovation, and Exchange in Pre/Fourteenth-Century West Africa
Abidemi Babatunde Babalola, Smuts Postdoctoral Fellow, Center of African Studies, University of Cambridge

The Fourteenth Century: An Archaeological Perspective from Islamic Eastern Ethiopia
Timothy Insoll, Al-Qasimi Professor of African and Islamic Archaeology, Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter

Islamic Art and Architecture along the Swahili Coast: Connectivity, Transcultural Entanglements, and Aesthetic Choices in the Global Fourteenth Century
Vera-Simone Schulz, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut

Discussant 
Ashley Miller, Forsyth Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan

The Ontology of a Kerman Vase: Thing and Image in Early Modern Iran 
Michael Chagnon, Curator, Aga Khan Museum, Toronto

Sensing Time and Sound: Clocks and Rhythms of Life in Safavid Isfahan 
Farshid Emami, Assistant Professor, Rice University

Points of Vision: Reception of a Late Safavid Tiled Arcade 
Lisa Golombek, Curator Emerita, Royal Ontario Museum and Professor Emerita, University of Toronto

Discussant 
Kishwar Rizvi, Professor, Yale University, and President,
Historians of Islamic Art Association

Erased Heritage of the Golden Horde: Forgetting and Remembering in Russian/Soviet Historiography 
Igor Demchenko, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University

Index, Icon, Place: The Politics and Practices of Commemoration Following Turkey’s July 15, 2016 Coup Attempt 
Timur Hammond, Assistant Professor, Syracuse University

Martyrs, Relics, and Muhammad’s Shinbone: De-Islamicizing the Mosque-Cathedral of Cordoba in the 16th Century 
Michele Lamprakos and Alejandro Cañeque, Associate Professors, University of Maryland-College Park

From Stone to Dust: The Life of the Kufic Inscribed Frieze of Wuqro Cherqos in Tigray, Ethiopia 
Mikael Muehlbauer, Porter Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, Harvard University

Discussant 
Bernard O’Kane, Professor, The American University in Cairo

11:30 - 1:00 pm

Break

1:00 - 3:00 pm 

Nineteenth- and Early-Twentieth-Century Regime Changes in Technologies and Media

Lithography and Its Impact on Persian Book Illustration in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 
Ulrich Marzolph, Retired Adjunct Professor, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen

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 
Yasemin Gencer, Affiliate Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study,
Indiana University

Visual Hagiographies of a Senegalese Sufi Saint 
Allen F. Roberts, Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

Discussant 
Ashley Dimmig, Wieler-Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in Islamic Art, The Walters Art Museum

3:00 - 3:15 pm

Closing Remarks

Christiane Gruber

Professor and Chair, History of Art Department, University of Michigan, and President-Elect, Historians of Islamic Art Association