Thursday, October 25, 2018
1:00-2:30
Registration
Loria Center, 2nd floor lobby
190 York Street
2:30-2:45
Opening Welcome
Loria Auditorium, room 250
Sussan Babaie, Andrew W. Mellon Reader in the Arts of Iran and Islam, The Courtauld Institute of Art, and President, Historians of Islamic Art Association
2:45-4:45
Mobility and Markets
Loria Auditorium, room 250
Gwendolyn Collaço, Harvard University
“Junctures between Pages and Temporalities: Interpreting Transcultural Albums from 18th c. Istanbul”
Jenny Peruski, Harvard University
“Fetishizing the Foot: ‘Clog’ Sandals and Networks of Meaning on the Swahili Coast”
Sylvia Houghteling, Bryn Mawr College
“Kalamkari from the Pen to the Block: The Afterlives of a Border-Crossing Cloth”
Caroline “Olivia” M. Wolf, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
“Crafting Andalusia in the Southern Cone: Transnational Architecture and Mahjar Monuments in Modern Argentina”
Discussant: Souraya Noujaim, Louvre Abu Dhabi
5:00-6:30
Keynote Lecture
Loria Auditorium, room 250
Introduction by Kishwar Rizvi, Yale University, and President-Elect, Historians of Islamic Art Association
Zainab Bahrani, Edith Porada Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
“Ascent of Images: Mapping Time at the Amadiya Akropolis”
Response by Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor and the Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
6:30-8:00
Keynote Reception and Gallery Tours with Selin Ünlüönen and Denise Leidy
Yale University Art Gallery Lobby
1111 Chapel Street
Friday, October 26, 2018
8:00-8:30
Coffee and Light Breakfast
Loria Center, 2nd floor lobby
190 York Street
8:30-10:30
Medieval Translations
Loria Auditorium, room 250
Amanda Luyster, College of the Holy Cross
“Islamic Textiles and Elite Interiors in Thirteenth-Century England”
Bernard O’Kane, American University in Cairo
“Post-Carved Brick: The Westward Spread of an Indian Technique in Ghaznavid and Later Islamic Architecture”
Heather Ecker, Dallas Museum of Art
“Reification and Reconciliation in an Age of Conversion and Translation: Sources for Toledo’s Choir Screen Panels”
Mikael Muehlbauer, Columbia University
“’The Canopied Circuit’: Reconstructing Islamic Veils in Ethiopian Rock-cut Churches”
Discussant: Nancy Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
Loria Center, 2nd floor lobby
11:00-11:15
Mid-Symposium Remarks and Welcome
Loria Auditorium, room 250
Alex Dika Seggerman, Rutgers University-Newark, and Symposium Co-Organizer
11:15-1:00
Ideological Borders
Loria Auditorium, room 250
Suheyla Takesh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Modern Arab Art Through Soviet Eyes: On the Scholarship of Anatoly Bogdanov and Boris Veimarn”
Nancy Demerdash-Fatemi, Albion College
“Migratory Imaginaries in Contemporary Franco-Maghrebi Artistic Practice”
Shahrzad Shirvani, University of California, Berkeley
“Spatial Reconstructions of ‘Victory’ On Two Sides of A Border: The Case of Iran and Iraq”
Discussant: Iftikhar Dadi, Cornell University
1:00-2:00
Break for Lunch
Downtown New Haven
2:00-3:30
Handling Sessions at Yale Object Collections
Various Locations
4:00-6:00
Against the Grain: Printing Cultures in Islamic Art History
Yale Center for British Art Lecture Hall
1080 Chapel Street
Hala Auji, American University of Beirut
“Facing Pages: Author Portraits in Nineteenth-Century Arabic Publications”
Mira Xenia Schwerda, Harvard University
“A Revolution in Print: Photography, Lithography, and Collotype Postcards in the Late Qajar Era”
Yasemin Gencer, Independent Scholar
“Economies of Recognition: Reader Photographs in Turkish Journals of the 1920s”
Elizabeth Rauh, University of Michigan
“The Colored Horizons of Karbala: Rafa Nasiri and Contemporary Printmaking in 1960s Iraq”
Discussant: Finbarr Barry Flood, Institute of Fine Arts and Director, Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University
6:00-7:30
Reception and Select Open Galleries
Yale Center for British Art
Saturday, October 27, 2018
8:00-8:30
Coffee and Light Breakfast
Loria Center, 2nd floor lobby
190 York Street
8:30-10:30
Then and Now: Medieval Border Crossings and the Contemporary Moment
Loria Auditorium, room 250
Heather A. Badamo, University of California, Santa Barbara
“The Audience of the Furusiyya Dagger: Common Culture and Conflicting Messages”
Jennifer Pruitt, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Productive Destruction: The Rebuilding of Fatimid Jerusalem (1010-1031)”
Heba Mostafa, University of Toronto
“Charting Boundaries of Knowledge: The Dār al-Imāra and the History of Governance in Early Islam between Archaeology and Art History”
Melanie Holcomb and Barbara Drake Boehm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
“Bridging Gaps, Hitting Walls: Finding Medieval Jerusalem”
Discussant: Patricia Blessing, Pomona College
10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
Loria Center, 2nd floor lobby
11:00-1:00
Methodological Borders
Loria Auditorium, room 250
Selin Ünlüönen, Yale University
“A Case in Ottoman Calligraphy: Mehmed Şefik’s ‘Elifba Cüzü’”
Lisa Homann, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
“Energizing Regional and Global Bonds: The Unique Aesthetic of a Muslim Masquerade”
Meredyth Lynn Winter, Harvard University
“Bordering on Rayy: Early Pahlavi Iran and the Truest Forgeries”
Anissa Rahadiningtyas, Cornell University
“The Elusive Horse Dance and the Discursive Absence of Islam in the History of Modern Art in Indonesia”
Discussant: Mirjam Shatanawi, National Museum of World Cultures
1:00-2:00
Break for Lunch
Downtown New Haven
1:15-2:00
Optional Brown Bag Lunch Presentation
New Acquisitions and Research Tools at AKDC
Loria Center, room 360
Matt Saba and Michael Toler, Aga Khan Documentation Center, MIT
2:00-4:00
The Digital Divide: On the Possibilities and Perils of Data-driven Scholarship in Islamic Art and Architectural History
Loria Auditorium, room 250
Yael Rice, Amherst College
“The Mughal Manuscript Workshop through a Network Analysis Lens”
Ethel Wolper, University of New Hampshire
“The Digital Turn in Islamic Art History: Lessons from Mapping Heritage Destruction in Mosul”
Nancy Um, Binghamton University
“Yemeni Manuscripts Online: Close and Distant Readings of a Zaydi Corpus through te Portal of a Screen”
Nina Macaraig and Yasemin Özarslan, Koç University
“Mapping Istanbul’s Hamams with Hafız Hüseyin Ayvansarayi”
Discussant: Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, The Graduate Center, CUNY and Deputy Director, Manar al-Athar
4:00-4:30
Coffee Break
Loria Center, 2nd floor lobby
4:30-6:30
Art and Architecture on the Periphery of Empire
Loria Auditorium, room 250
Melis Taner, Özyeğin University
“’From the Sword of Yusuf Perished All the Bandits:’ An Early Seventeenth-Century Illustrated Travelogue/Campaign Logbook of Hadım Yusuf Paşa”
Emily Neumeier, Temple University
“Challenging Decorum in Ottoman Greece: Experiments in Architectural Epigraphy”
Robyn D. Radway, Central European University
“The Ambassador’s Paper Portraits of Empire: Albums from the German House in Constantinople under David Ungnad (1570s)”
Discussant: Heghnar Watenpaugh, University of California, Davis