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Paid Graduate Fellowship-MFA Houston
The Art of the Islamic Worlds Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Art of the Islamic Worlds Department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is seeking a graduate level fellow for Summer 2019. Please find fellowship details and requirements here. Application Instructions: Please…
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Music, Sound, and Architecture in Islam, ed Michael Frishkopf and Federico Spinetti (University of Texas Press, March 2018).
Edited by Federico Spinetti (U. Cologne) and Michael Frishkopf, with a foreword by Ali Asani (Harvard), this interdisciplinary collection comprises 14 chapters, representing multiple regions of the Muslim world, by scholars offering diverse perspectives on the multifaceted relations between sound and the built environment. The volume includes 16 full color plates, some 70 b&w figures, and an accompanying website (in progress) at archnet.org, which will ultimately provide accompanying AV for every chapter.
ِContributors (in order) include Ali Asani, D. Fairchild Ruggles, Nina Ergin, John Morgan O’Connell, Irene Markoff, Michael Frishkopf, Jonathan H. Shannon, Samer Akkach, Cynthia Robinson, Glaire D. Anderson, Paul A. Silverstein, Kamil Khan Mumtaz, Saida Daukeyeva, Anthony Welch, and Federico Spinetti.
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Margaret S. Graves, Arts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, and Architecture in Medieval Islam (Oxford University Press, 2018)
- Offers first book-length investigation of the striking engagement between portable arts and architecture in the medieval Islamic world
- Recognizes and argues for material objects and craftsmanship as a vital component of the intellectual culture of the medieval Islamic world
- Features over 100 stunning color and black-and-white illustrations
- Includes little-known and unpublished artworks from international collections
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Job: Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair in Islamic Art, Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts
Richmond, Virginia
The Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts (VCUarts), Department of Art History, invites applications from distinguished, highly collaborative, interdisciplinary scholars for the Hamad bin…
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Deputy Director, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin
Berlin
The Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz seeks to fill at the soonest possible date the position of the Deputy Directrice / Director of Museum.For details, please visit, https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job...
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Travel Fellowships to Attend the 8th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium
Doha, Qatar
The organizing committee invites applications for fellowships to support attendance at the 8th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art to be held in Doha, Qatar from November 10 to 11,…
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British Library PhD Placements
London
We’re pleased to announce that the British Library is now accepting applications for PhD research placements in 2019-20. A wide range of projects are available and full details, including information…
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CfP: Ernst Herzfeld Society for Studies in Islamic Art and Archaeology, 15th Colloquium, July 4-6
Budapest
15th EHG Colloquium Budapest, July 4–6, 2019Spaces and Frontiers of Islamic Art and Archaeology Dear colleagues, dear EHG members The Ernst Herzfeld Gesellschaft (EHG) |…
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Aga Khan Museum, International Research Grant
Toronto
he Faaiza Lalji and Ameel SomaniAga Khan Museum Art History Student Gift (deadline, 31 March) The Aga Khan Museum (AKM) is pleased to announce the availability of research grants, generously supported…
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Dallas Museum of Art, The Keir Collection of Islamic Art online
The Dallas Museum of Art has made the Keir Collection of Islamic Art on loan to the Dallas Museum of Art available on its website (https://collections.dma.org/topic/departments/keir). For the first time, new digital, color photography of the majority of the objects in the collection is freely available for study and download. This project is the culmination of four years of admirable work behind the scenes at the DMA, for which the museum’s staff deserves much praise.
The collection is searchable both by the published Keir catalogue numbers and by the new loan numbers assigned by the DMA. In any new publications, please use the credit line “The Keir Collection of Islamic Art on loan to the Dallas Museum of Art, XXX” where XXX is the new loan number. If you wish, you can follow this with the published, catalogue number.
The Keir Collection online project is a work in progress—please bear with us as we continue to improve our online presence. The cataloguing is minimal and not yet updated—there are many gaps and there may be some errors. The digitisation of objects continues. Most of the manuscripts have been digitised and are being coded so that they can be viewed with the pages properly sequenced—these will be uploaded on a rolling basis as soon as they are ready. Finally, some objects are not yet present on the website.
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The Textile Museum Journal, Vol. 45
Titled Draping the Middle Ages and guest edited by Patricia Blessing, assistant professor of Medieval and Islamic Art History at Pomona College, The Textile Museum Journal 45 focuses on the mobile nature of textile patterns in the East and West during the Middle Ages and investigates the question of cultural specificity in the use of textile imitations in a range of media. As coveted objects of trade and diplomatic gift exchange, textiles were widely distributed using the cross-cultural networks between Byzantium, the Islamic world, and East Asia. Within this broader world of medieval textile exchange, the notion of textile patterns that are adapted in architecture, ceramics, metalwork, and manuscripts stand at the center of the four articles in this volume:
- Draping, Wrapping, Hanging: Transposing Textile Materiality in the Middle Ages by Patricia Blessing, Pomona College
- Painted Silks: Form and Production of Women’s Court Dress in the Mongol Empire by Eiren L. Shea; Grinnell College
- Gems in Cloth and Stone: Medium, Materiality, and the Late Antique Jeweled Aesthetic by Elizabeth Dospěl Williams, Dumbarton Oaks Museum
- Put a Bird on it: What an Aviary Preoccupation Reveals about Medieval Silks by Meredyth Lynn Winter, Harvard University
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Kent State University, Assistant Professor of Asian and/or Islamic Art
Kent, Ohio
The school is searching for an energetic candidate whose teaching and research interests focus on Asian (Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, or Southeast Asian) or Islamic (in the Mediterranean, Middle…
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