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Pierre Siméon, From Ordinary to Luxury. Islamic Ceramics from Iran, Central Asia and Afghanistan. Studies on the Bumiller Collection I (ed. Verena Daiber), 2020
"From Ordinary to Luxury” is based on the glazed and unglazed pottery from The Bumiller Collection and is a profound study of Iranian and Central Asian ceramics. The Bumiller set is not a collection of masterpieces, but gives an insight into the most diverse wares of daily life. Pierre Siméon’s expertise and hands-on experience as an archaeologist are invaluable assets for the knowledge of provenance and distribution of Iranian and Central Asian pottery. Apart from that, his study takes into account the works of our Russian colleagues, that have gone without adequate acknowledgement for decades due to the language barrier.
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Association for Art History 2021 Annual Conference 14 – 17 April 2021
University of Birmingham
The Annual Conference brings together international research and critical debate about art, art history and visual cultures. It is an opportunity to keep up to date with new research, broaden…
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The Hajji Baba Club Research Fellowship, 2020-2021 (deadline May 31)
Hajji Baba Club
The Hajji Baba Club Research Fellowship seeks to encourage and support fundamental research in the field of carpet studies by established scholars and early-career scholars of outstanding promise. One…
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Special Issue: “Hinterland Forces: Architectural Responses at the Margins”
International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA)
Thematic volume planned for July 2022, Abstract submission deadline: 15 June 2020 The hinterland is a realm beyond the known, beyond the confines of the urban core, or beyond the acceptable…
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Seeking Transparency Rock Crystals Across the Medieval Mediterranean, eds. Cynthia Hahn and Avinoam Shalem
Like the sea, and the watery medium with which rock crystal is identified in the Middle Ages, the history of its production during the Middle Ages ebbs and flows. From Late Antiquity to the age of the great Portuguese expansion, specific knowledge about carving the hard material was kept a closely guarded secret in just a few centers of production. All the while, royal courts and wealthy churches were eager patrons for the luxurious objects given that rock crystal was valued as one of the most desirable and precious of all materials, ascribed mysterious origins and powers, and renowned for both rarity and clarity. This collection of essays reveals the global and cross-cultural histories of rock-crystal production in and even beyond the lands of the Mediterranean Sea. It investigates many objects and varied aspects of rock crystal such as: the physical nature and legendary as well as actual origins of the material; its manufacturing techniques and affiliations to other luxurious objects, such as cut glass and carved precious stones; legends and traditions associated with its aesthetic qualities; as well as issues concerning its varied functions and historiography.
With contributions by: Zainab Bahrani, Isabelle Bardiès, Farid Benfeghoul, Brigitte Buettner, Patrick R. Cowley, Beate Fricke, Marisa Galvez, Stefania Gerevini, Cynthia Hahn, Jeremy Johns, Genevra Kornbluth, Jens Kröger, Ingeborg Krueger, Elise Morero, Bissera V. Penchera, Marcus Pilz, Stèphane Pradines, Venetia Porter, Hara Procopiou, Avinoam Shalem, Gia Toussaint, Roberto Vargiolu, and Hassan Zahouani.
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Olga Bush awarded IAS membership
Olga Bush (Vassar College) was awarded a membership at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton for the Fall 2020 for her current book in progress under the working title Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Visual Culture of al-Andalus and the Medieval Mediterranean in Light of the Environmental Turn.
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DEADLINE EXTENDED--Call for proposals--HIAA Sponsored Panel at CAA 2021
New York
DEADLINE EXTENDED - 3 APRILHIAA will sponsor a session at CAA’s Annual Conference in New York, February 10-13, 2021. We are now asking for proposals for a complete panel from HIAA members. For…
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Jerba: An Island in Time, with Prof. Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania
Ottoman History Podcast--For the first time on the podcast, we discuss the role of archaeology and its potential to contribute to our knowledge of the Ottoman world. More specifically, we explore how the field of landscape archaeology can offer a better understanding of how different factors of religion, politics, and culture impacted the manipulation of territory over millenia. The large-scale examination of material culture and vernacular architecture in a rural setting particularly has the potential to fill in the gaps of the historical archive, providing information about communities that otherwise remain relatively unknown. In this episode, we speak with Renata Holod, who co-directed a multi-year archaeological and architectural survey of the island of Jerba, off the coast of Tunisia. Our conversation not only explains the techniques and methodologies deployed during the project, but also ranges to wider reflections on the different ways the arrival of the Ottomans on the island can be read in the landscape itself.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/03/jerba.html
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Finbarr Barry Flood's 2019 Chair de Louvre lectures "Technologies de dévotion dans les arts de l’Islam"
Last fall, Barry Flood was the 2019 Chaire du Louvre, an annual cycle of five lectures. The lectures are in French and the cycle is entitled Technologies de dévotion dans les arts de l’Islam. Pélerins, reliques, copies. The five lectures are now online.
https://www.louvre.fr/technologies-de-devotion-dans-les-arts-de-l-islam-par-finbarr-barry-flood
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McDermott Intern for Islamic Art
Dallas Museum of Art
Scope of Position-The intern will research works of Islamic art and assist with exhibition preparation, acquisition proposals, and collection management. The intern will draft gallery label text and compile…
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Curatorial Assistant, Art of the Islamic Worlds
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Curatorial Assistant, Art of the Islamic WorldsResponsibilities:Provides curatorial assistance to the Curator, Art of the Islamic WorldsCollection management: on-going collection research; research of…
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Endowed Professorship in the History of Libraries & Information Professions
School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The School of Information Sciences (http://ischool.illinois.edu) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks an outstanding applicant for an endowed, tenured position at the rank of Associate…
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