HIAA Biennial Symposium
Forms of Knowledge & Cultures of Learning in Islamic Art
The Aga Khan Museum
Toronto
10.16-10.16.14
Occurring one month after the Aga Khan Museum’s opening, the Fourth Biennial Symposium will focus on the theme of Forms of Knowledge and Cultures of Learning in Islamic Art. The symposium will open with a keynote address by Lisa Golombek, Curator Emeritus (Islamic Art) at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Over the course of the two days, the program will consist of eight thematic sessions on a variety of topics covering all periods and most media of Islamic art and architecture. Participants and registrants will be encouraged to visit the Museum’s Permanent Collection gallery and the two temporary exhibitions, In Search of the Artist: Signed Drawings and Paintings from the Aga Khan Museum Collection curated by Filiz Çakır Phillip, and The Garden of Ideas: Contemporary Art from Pakistan curated by Sharmini Pereira.
10.16.14
15:00-18:00
Optional individual visit to the galleries
18:00-18:45
Keynote
The Chini-Khaneh as “Library”
Lisa Golombek
Curator Emeritus, Royal Ontario Museum
18:45-21:00
Welcoming reception: The Aga Khan Museum, Toronto
10.17.14
09:00-10:40
Panel
PANEL 1: Collections and Exhibitions Between Knowledge and Imagination
Avinoam Shalem
Chair
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
11:00-00:40
Panel
PANEL 2: Knowledge and the Building Traditions
Gülru Necipoğlu
Chair
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 Lutfallah (1603–19) in Isfahan
12:40-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:40
Panel
PANEL 3: Crafting Knowledge in Persian and Turkish Book Arts
Christiane Gruber
Chair
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
16:00-17:20
Panel
PANEL 4: Pentagons and Decagons in Islamic Art
Hashim Sarkis
Chair
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
16:00-17:00
Workshop
Archnet: A Demonstration Workshop
Sharon C. Smith
Shiraz Allibhai
10.18.14
09:00-10:40
Panel
PANEL 5:
Karin Rührdanz
Chair
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
11:00-12:40
Panel
PANEL 6: The Word Embellished
Sheila Blair
Chair
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
12:00-14:00
Lunch
14:00-15:40
Panel
PANEL 7: Embedding and Disseminating Knowledge in the Art of the Book
Persis Berlemkamp
Chair
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
Between Timurid 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
16:00-17:40
Panel
PANEL 8: What Artists and Artisans Knew
Stefan Weber
Chair
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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