Show:
Podcast
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.
http://www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com/2018/03/jerba.html
Visit siteRecorded Lecture
Finbarr Barry Flood's 2019 Chair de Louvre lectures "Technologies de dévotion dans les arts de l’Islam"
Last fall, Barry Flood was the 2019 Chaire du Louvre, an annual cycle of five lectures. The lectures are in French and the cycle is entitled Technologies de dévotion dans les arts de l’Islam. Pélerins, reliques, copies. The five lectures are now online.
https://www.louvre.fr/technologies-de-devotion-dans-les-arts-de-l-islam-par-finbarr-barry-flood
Job
Curatorial Assistant, Art of the Islamic Worlds
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Curatorial Assistant, Art of the Islamic WorldsResponsibilities:Provides curatorial assistance to the Curator, Art of the Islamic WorldsCollection management: on-going collection research; research of…
ViewInternship
McDermott Intern for Islamic Art
Dallas Museum of Art
Scope of Position-The intern will research works of Islamic art and assist with exhibition preparation, acquisition proposals, and collection management. The intern will draft gallery label text and compile…
ViewJob
Endowed Professorship in the History of Libraries & Information Professions
School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The School of Information Sciences (http://ischool.illinois.edu) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks an outstanding applicant for an endowed, tenured position at the rank of Associate…
ViewJob
Art Historian, pre c. 1500 art, tenure-track
College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas
The College of Visual Arts and Design at the University of North Texas invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position as an Assistant Professor of Art History, with a specialization in pre-…
ViewJob
Adrienne Minassian Endowed Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture
Brown University, Providence, RI
Brown University invites applications for the Adrienne Minassian Professorship of Islamic Art and Architecture. This is a tenured position at the level of Full or Associate Professor. We seek candidates…
ViewCall for Papers
Opening the Sacred Text: Meaning, Materiality, Historiography
Bodleian Library, Oxford
We are delighted to announce our call for papers for ‘Opening the Sacred Text: Meaning, Materiality, Historiography’, an interdisciplinary workshop and conference to be held at the Bodleian Library,…
ViewCall for Papers
Rethinking Narratives of China and the Middle East The Silk Roads and Beyond
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
The Middle East Center at the University of Pennsylvania invites the submission of abstracts for a conference that examines the relationship between China and the Middle East, both ancient and…
ViewBook
The Album of the World Emperor: Cross-Cultural Collecting and the Art of Album-Making in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul, by Emine Fetvacı
The Album of the World Emperor examines an extraordinary piece of art: an album of paintings, drawings, calligraphy, and European prints compiled for the Ottoman sultan Ahmed I (r. 1603–17) by his courtier Kalender Paşa (d. 1616). In this detailed study of one of the most important works of seventeenth-century Ottoman art, Emine Fetvacı uses the album to explore questions of style, iconography, foreign inspiration, and the very meaning of the visual arts in the Islamic world.
Buy bookJob
Visiting Assistant Professor in Global Medieval Art History
Binghamton University, SUNY
The Art History Department at Binghamton University invites applications for a two-year Visiting Assistant Professor position in Global Medieval Art History beginning in August 2020. This position begins…
ViewBook
The Missing Pages: The Modern Life of a Medieval Manuscript, from Genocide to Justice, by Heghnar Watenpaugh
In 2010, the world's wealthiest art institution, the J. Paul Getty Museum, found itself confronted by a century-old genocide. The Armenian Church was suing for the return of eight pages from the Zeytun Gospels, a manuscript illuminated by the greatest medieval Armenian artist, Toros Roslin. Protected for centuries in a remote church, the holy manuscript had followed the waves of displaced people exterminated during the Armenian genocide. Passed from hand to hand, caught in the confusion and brutality of the First World War, it was cleaved in two. Decades later, the manuscript found its way to the Republic of Armenia, while its missing eight pages came to the Getty.
The Missing Pages is the biography of a manuscript that is at once art, sacred object, and cultural heritage. Its tale mirrors the story of its scattered community as Armenians have struggled to redefine themselves after genocide and in the absence of a homeland. Heghnar Zeitlian Watenpaugh follows in the manuscript's footsteps through seven centuries, from medieval Armenia to the killing fields of 1915 Anatolia, the refugee camps of Aleppo, Ellis Island, and Soviet Armenia, and ultimately to a Los Angeles courtroom.
Reconstructing the path of the pages, Watenpaugh uncovers the rich tapestry of an extraordinary artwork and the people touched by it. At once a story of genocide and survival, of unimaginable loss and resilience, The Missing Pages captures the human costs of war and persuasively makes the case for a human right to art.
Buy bookSubmit resources and publications
Please submit resources to the HIAA webmaster including the resource name and type, and several sentences about its nature, and a link to further information.