Objects, Collections, and Cultures

The Principle of Parsimony and the Problem of the “Mosul School of Metalwork”

Julian Raby
Director, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

The Formation of Islamic Art Collections from Early Modern Times through the Twentieth Century

Sheila Canby
Chair and discussant

Barbara Karl
Islamic Art and Habsburg Collecting during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Joachim Gierlichs
Friedrich Sarre: The Reconstruction of His Collection of Islamic Art

A Mediterraneanist’s Collection: Henri Pharaon’s “Treasure House of Arab Art”
May Farhat

Workshops in Freer’s collection storage or conservation lab

Elaine Wright
The Freer Khusraw u Shirin Manuscript

Renata Holod
The Freer Battle Plate

Heather Ecker and Teresa Fitzherbert
The Freer Canteen Reconsidered

“Cinematic Urbanism” in the Middle East

Nezar Al-Sayyad
Chair and Discussant

Walter Armbrust
Neoliberalizing People and Places in Contemporary Egyptian Media

Mona Damluji
Documenting Oil Cities: Cinematic Representations of Urban Modernity in Abadan and Baghdad, 1949–1958

Ipek Türeli
Istanbul in Black and White: Cinematic Reflections of Urban Modernity

Lunch

Workshops in Freer’s collection storage or conservation lab

Abolala Soudavar
A Bustan of Sa’di of 1579

Two Gilded and Enameled Glass Bowls in the Freer Gallery of Art
Rachel Ward

A Silver Stand with Four Eagles
Lawrence Nees

Round Table Discussion: Objects of and in Islamic History and Culture

Esin Atil
Moderator

Lisa Golombek
University of Toronto (emerita) and Royal Ontario Museum (emerita)

Oya Pancaroglu
Bogaziçi University,Istanbul

Oliver Watson
Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Stefan Weber
Pergamonmuseum, Berlin

A Codicological Approach to the Practices and Theories of Manuscript Collecting

Laura E. Parodi
Chair

David Roxburgh
Discussant

Eleanor Sims
“The Silver Stream in the Foreground . . . ”

Emine Fetvaci
The Albums of Ahmed I

Yael Rice
Making Manuscripts Collectible: Mughal Interventions in the Rampur Jami al-tavarikh

Reception and exhibition tour, The Textile Museum

The Arts of the Book in Focus

Lale Uluç
Chair

Bernard O’Kane
Illustrations of Paintings in Arab Manuscripts and Their Modern Reproductions,with Particular Reference to the al-Wasiti Maqamat

Nourane Ben Azzouna
The Gulistan of Sa‘di Attributed to Yaqut al-Musta‘simi and Its Transformations from the Thirteenth Century to the Present

Karin Rührdanz
Between Astrology and Anatomy: Updating Qazvini’s Aja’ib al-makhluqat in Mid-sixteenth-century Iran

Objects on the Borders of Islamic Art (Organized and sponsored by the International Center of Medieval Art)

Helen Evans
Chair

Metzada Gelbe
Poetic Vessels of Everyday Life

Lamia Balafrej
The Pisa Griffin and Its Reception in Italy

Krysta Black
The Question of Impact: Reconsidering the Role of Islamic Art in the León Bible of 960

Anna McSweeney
The Mudéjar Ceramics of Paterna, Spain

Lunch break

Within/Without: Constructing Collections of Post-1800 “Islamic” Art

Alexandra Dika Seggerman
Chair

Heghnar Watenpaugh
Discussant

Sarah Neel-Smith
Medium and Modernity: Invisible Histories and Curating Contemporary Middle Eastern Art

Elizabeth Miller
Constructing a Generation: The “Pioneers,” Canon Formation, School, and Museum in Modern Egyptian Art

Venetia Porter
Collecting Modern and Contemporary Middle Eastern Art at the British Museum

Objects and Their Makers

Massumeh Farhad
Chair

Abdullah Ghouchani
Persian Potters and Their Works: New Discoveries in Mina’i and Luster Ware Production

Ruba Kana’an
The Craftsmen of Mosul Metalwork: Exploring the Roles and Relationships Between ustadh, mu‘allim, tilmidh, ghulam, and ajir

Hana Taragan
An Artuqid Candlestick from the al-Aqsa Museum: Object as Document

Bahattin Yaman
Fit for the Court: Ottoman Royal Costumes and Their Tailors, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries