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Aga Khan Program Postdoctoral Associateships
Cambridge, MA
The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture is pleased to invite applications for self-supported Associateships to conduct advanced historical research in Islamic art, architecture, and archaeology at…
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Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires: Encounters and Confluences
Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires: Encounters and Confluences, ed. Mohammad Gharipour
The cross-cultural exchange of ideas that flourished in the Mediterranean during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries profoundly affected European and Islamic society. Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires considers the role and place of gardens and landscapes in the broader context of the information sharing that took place among Europeans and Islamic empires in Turkey, Persia, and India. In illustrating commonalities in the design, development, and people’s perceptions of gardens and nature in both regions, this volume substantiates important parallels in the revolutionary advancements in landscape architecture that took place during the era. The contributors explain how the exchange of gardeners as well as horticultural and irrigation techniques influenced design traditions in the two cultures; examine concurrent shifts in garden and urban landscape design, such as the move toward more public functionality; and explore the mutually influential effects of politics, economics, and culture on composed outdoor space. In doing so, they shed light on the complexity of cultures and politics during the Renaissance. This book points to new areas in inquiry about the influences, confluences, and connections between European and Islamic garden traditions.
Title: Gardens of Renaissance Europe and the Islamic Empires: Encounters and Confluences
Editor: Mohammad Gharipour
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
ISBN13: 978-0-271-07779-6
Number of pages: 272
Number of illustrations: 122
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Fourteenth Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology
Strasbourg, France
The Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology and the University of Strasbourg are pleased to invite you to the 14th colloquium of the Society that will be held at the University…
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Ars Orientalis 47
Ars Orientalis 47, Autumn 2017
New Research in Dress Across Asia, ed. Nancy Micklewright
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Heritage Revisited: Rediscovering Islamic Objects in Enlightenment Europe
Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien
Heritage Revisited – Rediscovering Islamic Objects in Enlightenment Europe27.-28. September 2018, Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität WienMattia Guidetti (Universität Wien); Isabelle Dolezalek…
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Annales Islamologiques, Vol. 50
Volume 50 - 2016 of Annales islamologiques has been released on print and online. The guest-edited section is devoted to Architecture in Modern Egypt (“Bâtir, exposer, restaurer: une histoire architecturale de l’Égypte moderne”), and features 6 essays edited by Mercedes Volait. Fully illustrated by mostly unpublished iconography, the papers explore the large variety of contexts in which architecture bloomed between the mid-19th century and the 1960s. The era witnessed the reinvention of Coptic and Islamic tradition as well as large building and land developments by corporates (e.g. Suez Canal Company), landed aristocracy (e.g. Halim and Djelal Waqf estates in Cairo) and the State (e.g. fairs and exhibitions).
The Varia section of the Annual includes five articles in French, in English and in Arabic. Three of them publish sources: two Arabic papyri from the end of the 8th or the 9th century, and a paper stemming from the documents of al-Ḥaram al-Šarīf, which sheds light on the situation of Non-Muslims in Mamluk Jerusalem. The two other articles deal with the science of Hadith in the medieval period, and with musicians and singers in Ibn Iyās’ early 16th-century chronicle.
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University Assistant (pre-doc)
Vienna
A pre-doc position as university assistant is available at the Institute of Art History from January 15, 2018 (according to university contract regulations, 30 hours per week). The position is limited…
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Palestinian American Research Center, Fellowship for Conducting Field-Based Research on Palestine
Palestine, Israel, Jordan, or Lebanon
PARC announces its 19th annual U.S. research fellowship competition for doctoral students or scholars who have earned their PhD. Applicants must be U.S. citizens to apply. Applications are due January…
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Palestinian American Research Centre in conjunction with the NEH
Palestine
PARC announces its sixth National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) competition for field-based research in Palestine for scholars who have earned their PhD or completed their professional training. Research…
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The Kamil and Rifat Chadirji Photographic Archive, at the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT
The Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT (AKDC@MIT) is pleased to announce that it is now the home of the Kamil and Rifat Chadirji Photographic Archive.
Kamil Chadirji (1897-1968), born to an influential Baghdad family, played a central role in the political life of lraq as founder and President of the National Democratic Party. His position allowed him unique opportunities to take photographs throughout Iraq. Kamil’s son, Rifat Chadirji (b. 1926), perhaps better known as one of the most influential Iraqi architects of the 20th century, was also an accomplished photographer, author, teacher, and critic (through the generosity of Rifat and Balkis Chadirji, AKDC@MITalso houses the Rifat Chadirji Architecture Archive). Together, their vast collection spans more than 5 decades and contains ca. 100,000 negatives and images documenting the Middle East, primarily Iraq.
The collection illustrates daily life, cultural engagement, and social conditions in the Middle East from the 1920s – 1970s. This important record also provides a unique look at the significant transformation of Baghdad’s built environment over time.
Once on loan to the Arab Image Foundation (Beirut, Lebanon), the entire collection has been given to the Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT through a gift from the Chadirji family. In 2016, while on loan to the Arab Image Foundation and with a grant from the Graham Foundation, the photography of Rifat Chadirji, in particular, was highlighted in an exhibition entitled, Every Building in Baghdad: The Rifat Chadirji Archives at the Arab Image Foundation. Although the material now belongs to AKDC@MIT, the exhibition remains on tour and will open in Los Angeles, CA early January 2018, before returning to MIT.
As with all archives given to AKDC@MIT, the collection will be catalogued, digitized, and made available to scholars, students, and research via AKDC’s research portal, Archnet, or in person at the Center. For more information, please contact akdc@mit.edu.
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Panel: Art, Dreams and Miracles: Reflections and Representations for the Royal Anthropological Institute Conference, 2018
British Museum, London
Art, Dreams and Miracles: Reflections and Representations Convened by Nada Al-Hudaid (University of Manchester) Discussants: Lydia Degarrod (California College of the Arts) Ammara Maqsood…
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AKPIA@MIT Postdoctoral Fellowships
Cambridge, MA
2018-2019 POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS FOR RESEARCH IN ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM, AND CONSERVATION The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT (AKPIA@MIT) is pleased to announce its postdoctoral…
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