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CAA 2018 Session: "Decolonizing Art Museums?"
Los Angeles
106th College Art Association Annual Conference Los Angeles, February21 - 24, 2018Deadline: Aug 14, 2017Session sponsored by the CAA Museum CommitteeChairs: Risham Majeed, Elizabeth Rodini,…
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Mohammad Gharipour, ed. Synagogues of the Islamic World: Architecture, Design and Identity
This illustrated volume examines the spaces created by and for Jews in areas under the political or religious control of Muslims. Covering regions as diverse as Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Spain, it asks how the architecture of synagogues responded to contextual issues and traditions, and how these contexts influenced the design and evolution of synagogues. As well as revealing how synagogues reflect the culture of the Jewish minority at macro and micro scales, from the city to the interior, the book also considers patterns of the development of synagogues in urban contexts and in connection with urban elements and monuments.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN13: 978-1474411714
Number of pages: 448, number of color illustrations: 200
For more information, please see the webpage.
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Assistant- or Associate-Level Faculty Position in Islam and the Arts
California
Stanford University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor or a tenured Associate Professor faculty position in Islam and the Arts. The search is open to scholars focused on Islamic…
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Elizabeth Fraser, Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839
Focusing on travel images and cross-cultural exchange, Mediterranean Encounters examines interactions between the Ottoman Empire and Europe from 1774 to 1839, highlighting mutual dependence and reciprocity.
A 30% discount is available using code EAF17 at http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-07320-0.html
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Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography
Location varies
Rare Book School has been awarded a $1 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography. Building on the success of the…
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Herat Through Time: The Collections of the Herat Museum and Archive
edited by U. Franke and M. Müller-Wiener, with 21 contributions by various authors
This volume, published as vol. 3 of the Ancient Herat series, has 732 pages with 1950 colour images and 250 line drawings and maps.
The volumes are not available through commercial distributors; the webpage www.ancient-herat.de provides detailed information on the content and an option to order the books. The contact email is info@ancient-herat.de. The two forthcoming volumes will be placed on that page too.
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Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship, Price Lab for Digital Humanities, UPenn
Philadelphia
The Price Lab invites applications for the 2018–2019 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities. Awards are available to untenured scholars in the humanities whose PhD must have been…
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Society of Architectural Historians: H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship
International
Deadline October 1, 2017The H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship is open to a scholar who will earn a PhD or advanced terminal degree in the first half of 2017 (by June 30, 2017) or an emerging scholar…
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Curatorial Assistant, Art of the Islamic Worlds, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, Texas
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International Journal of Islamic Architecture (Vol. 6, Issue 2, July 2017)
“Imagining Localities of Antiquity in Islamic Societies"
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Marcus Milwright, Islamic Arts and Crafts: An Anthology
Islamic Arts and Crafts: An Anthology by Marcus Milwright (Edinburgh UP, 2017) is a collection of written sources (dating from the seventh to the twentieth centuries) that explores numerous aspects of the crafts of the Middle East from the processing of raw materials to the manufacture of finished artefacts.
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Crafts of Syria
An announcement of Marcus Milwright's new online teaching and research resource: http://craftsofsyria.uvic.ca
The site is devoted to the crafts of Syria and records evidence for traditional modes of manufacturing across the country. I have been developing this site over the last year with the assistance of students in the Department of Art History and Visual Studies (University of Victoria).
The Crafts of Syria website is organized according to the cities, towns, and other settlements of modern Syria. You will find primary written sources, secondary historical studies, ethnographic and archaeological research, travellers’ accounts, and photographs that provide evidence for craft activities conducted in these locations from the seventh century to the present. Searches can also be made via a map or by craft type.
The site is in its early stages of development, and the coverage (geographical, historical, and the range of crafts) is still uneven. My team will continue to add new entries in the coming years. We also plan to extend the geographical scope of this study to encompass other regions of the Middle East.
If you have additional material relating to crafts activities across Syria, I would be delighted to receive it. Please send this information, as well as comments about the site to mmilwrig@uvic.ca
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