HIAA Symposium at MFAH & Rice | Participants

“Rudaba’s Parents Converse about her Love for Zal”, folio 77v from the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp, attributed to ‘Abdal-‘Aziz under the direction of Sultan Muhammad (both Persian, active first half of 16th century), Iran, c. 1520–1540, ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper, The Hossein Afshar Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“Rudaba’s Parents Converse about her Love for Zal”, folio 77v from the Shahnama of Shah Tahmasp, attributed to ‘Abdal-‘Aziz under the direction of Sultan Muhammad (both Persian, active first half of 16th century), Iran, c. 1520–1540, ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper, The Hossein Afshar Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Participants

Keynote

Lisa Balabanlilar, Joseph and Joanna Nazro Mullen Professor in the Humanities; Chair, Department of Transnational Asian Studies; Director, Chao Center for Asian Studies; Professor of History, Rice University

Presenters

Hiba Abid, The New York Public Library
Michelle Al-Ferzly, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Angela Andersen, University of Victoria
Patricia Blessing, Princeton University
Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
Yagnaseni Datta, Yale University
Ashley Dimmig, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Parshati Dutta, University of York
Mohamed Ahmed Enab, Fayoum University
Yasemin Gencer, Wayne State University and Indiana University’s Institute for Advanced Study
Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Irem Gunduz-Polat, Marmara University, Istanbul and Sakarya University, Turkey
Sahar Hosseini, University of Pittsburgh
Linda Komaroff, LACMA
Amanda Caterina Leong, University of California, Merced
Xinyu Liang, Rice University
Arvin Maghsoudlou, Southern Methodist University
Anna McSweeney, Trinity College, Dublin
Mika Natif, George Washington University
Janet O'Brien, Independent Scholar
Jenny Peruski, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Harvard University
Mariam Rosser-Owen, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Anke Scharrahs, Conservator
Alex Dika Seggerman, Rutgers University-Newark
Nur Sobers-Khan, Independent Researcher
Margaret Squires, Courtauld Institute of Art
Sarah Tabbal, Vitrocentre Romont, Switzerland
Işın Taylan, Yale University
Sandra S. Williams, University of Michigan and Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Caroline Olivia Wolf, Loyola University Chicago
Rebecca Wrightson, Trinity College, Hartford, CT

Discussants

Lisa Balabanlilar, Rice University
Heather Ecker, Independent Scholar and Curator
Julia Gonnella, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
Linda Komaroff, LACMA
Nancy Micklewright, Smithsonian
Emily Neumeier, Temple University
Nur Sobers-Khan, Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT
Abbey Stockstill, Southern Methodist University

Panel Organizers

Hiba Abid, The New York Public Library
Ashley Dimmig, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Holley Ledbetter, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Anna McSweeney, Trinity College, Dublin
Mariam Rosser-Owen, Victoria and Albert Museum, London