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President's Letter and Note from the Secretary, August 2020
Letter from the President August 4, 2020 Dear Colleagues, These are difficult times and they touch each of us in different ways, I hope this newsletter finds you as well as can be. At times like this…
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Statement from the Board of HIAA Condemning Anti-Black Bias and Systemic Racism
The disproportionate killing of Black Americans by police brought into relief by the recent murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, Nina Pop, and Breonna Taylor once again showed the world…
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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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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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Manar al-Athar Open-Access Photo-Archive
The Manar al-Athar photo-archive, based at the University of Oxford, provides high resolution, searchable images for teaching, research, publication and heritage work. These images of archaeological sites, buildings and artworks, cover the areas of the former Roman Empire which later came under Islamic rule (such as Syro-Palestine/the Levant, Egypt and North Africa), and adjoining regions, such as Armenia and Georgia. The chronological range is from Alexander the Great (i.e from about 300 BC) through the Islamic period.
The photo-archive is open-access so that it can be freely used by anyone anywhere in the world. Photographs can be freely downloaded as original high-resolution images (tif images) without watermarks, making them immediately available in a format suitable for publication or research, simply by acknowledging the source. Material is labelled in both English and Arabic to facilitate regional use, with the main instructions also available in some other languages.
The Manar al-Athar photo-archive currently has c. 70 000 images online, but is in continuous development. Current strengths include Late Antiquity (AD 250–750), the period of transition from paganism to Christianity and, in turn, to Islam, especially religious buildings (temples, churches, synagogues, mosques) and monumental art (including floor mosaics), early Islamic art (paintings, mosaics, relief sculpture), as well as Roman and early Islamic (Umayyad) architecture, and iconoclasm
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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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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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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.
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