A series of lectures to address the historiography of the field ‘Islamic Art’ by scoring the particular moments of ruptures that fractured its foundations.
Organized by Avinoam Shalem, Riggio Professor, Arts of Islam, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, in collaboration with the Center for Spatial Research at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, the Middle East Institute of Columbia University, and the Centre for the Study of Muslim Societies at Columbia University.
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Slide 1: Poster for Lynn Meskell lecture
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Slide 2: Oct-2022 poster
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Slide 3: April-2021 poster
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Slide 4: 2019-2020 poster
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Slide 5: spring 2016 poster
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Slide 6: spring 2015 poster
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Slide 7: spring 2015 poster
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Slide 8: fall 2014 poster
'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Renata Holod (University of Pennsylvania): 'Our Works Point to Us': Making, Ordering, Describing the Visual Cultures) in the Islamic World.
'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Renata Holod (University of Pennsylvania): 'Our Works Point to Us': Making, Ordering, Describing the Visual Cultures) in the Islamic World.
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Sheila Canby (Metropolitan Museum of Art): "Early Safavid Art: Rupture or Synthesis?" Kishwar Rizvi (Yale University): Self and the World: The Arts during the Period of Shah 'Abbas I.
'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Sheila Canby (Metropolitan Museum of Art): "Early Safavid Art: Rupture or Synthesis?" Kishwar Rizvi (Yale University): Self and the World: The Arts during the Period of Shah 'Abbas I.
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Eva Hoffman (Tufts University): "Islamic Art, Art History and Mediterranean Genealogies"
'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Eva Hoffman (Tufts University): "Islamic Art, Art History and Mediterranean Genealogies"
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Esra Akcan (Cornell University): "How Modern was made 'Islamic': Recruiting a category for late 20th-century architecture in the Middle East."
'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Esra Akcan (Cornell University): "How Modern was made 'Islamic': Recruiting a category for late 20th-century architecture in the Middle East."
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Walid Raad (Cooper Union): "Scratching on things I could disavow: From the Lourvre's Départment des Arts de L'Islam."
'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Walid Raad (Cooper Union): "Scratching on things I could disavow: From the Lourvre's Départment des Arts de L'Islam."
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths, University of London): "Hannibal in Rafah: a forensic reconstruction of one day in the 2014 Gaza War."
'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths, University of London): "Hannibal in Rafah: a forensic reconstruction of one day in the 2014 Gaza War."
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Zeynep Çelik (New Jersey Institute of Technology): "Photographing Ottoman Modernity."
'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Zeynep Çelik (New Jersey Institute of Technology): "Photographing Ottoman Modernity."
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Nada Shabout (University of North Texas): "Modernities: Discontent and Alliances" with discussant Zainab Bahrani (Columbia University)
'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Nada Shabout (University of North Texas): "Modernities: Discontent and Alliances" with discussant Zainab Bahrani (Columbia University)
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Yasser Tabbaa (Independent Scholar): "The Remaking of Aleppo under Nur al-Din and the Early Ayyubids"
'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Yasser Tabbaa (Independent Scholar): "The Remaking of Aleppo under Nur al-Din and the Early Ayyubids"
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Heghnar Watenpaugh (University of California, Davis): "Ottoman Aleppo: Experiencing Architecture, Narrating Space"
'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Heghnar Watenpaugh (University of California, Davis): "Ottoman Aleppo: Experiencing Architecture, Narrating Space"
Wood Auditorium, Avery Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Patrick Ball (Human Rights Data Analysis Group): "Seeing the Forest: Analyzing Hidden Patterns Using (Mostly) Public Data about People Killed in Syria, 2011-2015"
'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Patrick Ball (Human Rights Data Analysis Group): "Seeing the Forest: Analyzing Hidden Patterns Using (Mostly) Public Data about People Killed in Syria, 2011-2015"
Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Pulitzer Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Sussan Babaie (Courtauld Institute of Art): "Urbanity and Mercantile 'Taste': the Houses of Aleppo"
'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures, Sussan Babaie (Courtauld Institute of Art): "Urbanity and Mercantile 'Taste': the Houses of Aleppo"
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Ruba Kana'an (University of Toronto), "Rethinking the Friday Mosque: A Critical Enquiry of an Architectural Paradigm"
'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Ruba Kana'an (University of Toronto), "Rethinking the Friday Mosque: A Critical Enquiry of an Architectural Paradigm"
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Ziad Jamaleddine (GSAPP, Columbia University), "The Isolated Monument and the Making of Masterpieces"
'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Ziad Jamaleddine (GSAPP, Columbia University), "The Isolated Monument and the Making of Masterpieces"
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Igor Demchenko (GSAPP, Columbia University), Conservation and Restoration Documentation as a Source in Architectural History
'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Igor Demchenko (GSAPP, Columbia University), Conservation and Restoration Documentation as a Source in Architectural History
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Ali Behdad (UCLA, California), On Photographic Monumentalism in Qajar Iran and Ottoman Turkey
'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Ali Behdad (UCLA, California), On Photographic Monumentalism in Qajar Iran and Ottoman Turkey
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Gerhard Wolf (KHI Florence, Max-Planck Institute), Perceived Through the Feet: Approaching Architecture on the Ground
'Islamic' Art: Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Gerhard Wolf (KHI Florence, Max-Planck Institute), Perceived Through the Feet: Approaching Architecture on the Ground
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Nebahat Avcıoğlu, 'The Külliye as Hypotext: A New Reading of Histories of Imperial Mosques and Tombs'
Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Nebahat Avcıoğlu, 'The Külliye as Hypotext: A New Reading of Histories of Imperial Mosques and Tombs'
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:15 PM - 8:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Lynn Meskell, 'Saving the World? Reflections on UNESCO's Mid Century Mission in Conflict'
Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Lynn Meskell, 'Saving the World? Reflections on UNESCO's Mid Century Mission in Conflict'
612 Schermerhorn Hall
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Event time is displayed in your time zone.Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, 'What Can a Mosque Tell Us About History?'
Disrupting Unity and Discerning Ruptures: Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, 'What Can a Mosque Tell Us About History?'
612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:15 PM - 7:45 PM
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Meskell poster