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The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam by Alain George
The Umayyad Mosque of Damascus: Art, Faith and Empire in Early Islam by Alain George edited by Melanie Gibson The Great Mosque of Damascus is an iconic monument of world architecture, and the oldest…
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HIAA Fall 2021 Newsletter
HIAA is pleased to share with its members the 2021 Fall Newsletter. It includes the President's Fall Letter, interviews of key scholars, biennial symposium report, notes from the field, and member news. Download PDF ViewBook
Antique Dealing and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850-1890: Intercultural Engagements with Architecture and Craft in the Age of Travel and Reform, by Mercedes Volait
The commodification of Islamic antiques intensified in the late Ottoman Empire, an age of domestic reform and increased European interference following the Tanzimat (reorganisation) of 1839. Mercedes Volait examines the social life of typical objects moving from Cairo and Damascus to Paris, London, and beyond, uncovers the range of agencies and subjectivities involved in the trade of architectural salvage and historic handicraft, and traces impacts on private interiors, through creative reuse and Revival design, in Egypt, Europe and America. By devoting attention to both local and global engagements with Middle Eastern tangible heritage, the present volume invites to look anew at Orientalism in art and interior design, the canon of Islamic architecture and the translocation of historic works of art
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Statement from the President of HIAA on Palestine
Originally released on May 27, 2021 In response to the May 2021 conflict, I stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and condemn the recent forced and illegal removal of Palestinians from their…
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Interconnecting West and East Asia: A Transcultural Study of the Architecture of the Dead, SAH 2022, Abstracts DUE JUNE 2
The Society of Architectural Historians, 75th Annual International Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 27–May 1, 2022
In the wake of a growing interest in the global approach to architectural history, this session seeks to widen the scope of current research by conducting a transcultural and comparative analysis of the…
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17th Congress of Turkish Art- Warsaw 18-21 September 2023, Abstracts due 10th of November, 2021
Warsaw
17th International Congress of Turkish Art will be held between the 18th and the 21st September 2023 in Warsaw, at the Museum of the Palace of King Jan III in Wilanów and the University…
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The CARMEN Visual and Material Cultures
ARC Humanities Press
This series provides a platform for interdisciplinary medieval scholarship centred on visual and material cultures, through which it seeks to gain new perspectives and bring greater depth to existing historical…
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Pre-Modern “Pop Cultures”? Images and Objects Around the Mediterranean (c. 350–1918), Call for papers, Eikón Imago 2022, DEADLINE 30/6/2021
Eikón Imago
“We may not be able to define it, but we know it when we see it”: this is the slightly ironic definition Holt Parker gives us for “popular culture” (Parker 2011: 147). But who is able to define…
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Elisabeth Fraser, Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839, PSUP
Mediterranean Encounters: Artists Between Europe and the Ottoman Empire, 1774-1839 is now out in paperback.
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HIAA Majlis at CAA 2022--Proposals due May 31, 2021
Chicago
The HIAA Majlis, held periodically in conjunction with the conference of the College Art Association (CAA), offers an opportunity for junior scholars in Islamic art to learn about their colleagues'…
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HIAA Summer Newsletter--Please share recent publications, exhibitions, new positions, and honors by May 31, 2021
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Following the successful launch of our newsletter (available in the Member News page of the website), the HIAA board is now gathering information to compile in the summer edition (to be…
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HIAA Summer Newsletter--Please share recent publications, exhibitions, new positions, and honors by May 31, 2021
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