Program
Thursday, March 2, 2023
Lynn Wyatt Theater | Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
4:45-5:00p
Welcome
Welcome Remarks
Aimée Froom, Curator, Art of the Islamic Worlds, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Farshid Emami, Assistant Professor, Rice University; and Kishwar Rizvi, Robert Lehman Professor in the History of Art and Architecture, Yale University, and Past President, Historians of Islamic Art Association
5:00-6:30p
Keynote
Lecture
Imperial Landscapes: Recontextualizing Mughal Mobility, Environment, Emotion, and Memory
Introduction by by Aimée Froom, Curator, Art of the Islamic Worlds, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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
6:30-8:00p
Reception
Lower Lobby | Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Friday, March 3, 2023
Lynn Wyatt Theater | Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
8:15-8:30a
Welcome
Welcome Remarks
Aimée Froom, Curator, Art of the Islamic Worlds, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
8:30-10:30a
Panel
(Re-)Activating Architectural Interiors in the Museum
Linda Komaroff, Curator and Department Head, Art of the Midle East, LACMA
A Damscus Room in Los Angeles
Anke Scharrahs, Conservator
'Damascus Rooms' in Dresden and Doha: Multifunctional Architectural Spaces in Museum Displays
Anna McSweeney, Lecturer, Trinity College, Dublin
Displaying the Alhambra Cupola in Berlin
Mariam Rosser-Owen, Curator, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The Torrijos Ceiling at V&A East
Discussant: Julia Gonnella, Director, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
Panel Organizers: Mariam Rosser-Owen, Curator, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and Anna McSweeney, Lecturer, Trinity College, Dublin
10:30-11:00a
BREAK
11:00a-1:00p
Panel
Transculturality and Intertextuality
Xinyu Liang, Ph.D. Student, Rice University
Faith and Integration: Taiyuan Ancient Mosque and Chinese Muslims' Settlement in Heartland China
Amanda Caterina Leong, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California, Merced
Re-thinking Medieval Race and Female Javānmardī in the Illustrated Manuscripts of Khvaju Kirmani’s Khamsa and the Kitab-i Samak ‘Ayyar
Yagnaseni Datta, Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University
From Monster to Mendicant: Transformative Philosophy in the Paintings of the Mughal Jūg Bāsisht, c. 1602
Janet O'Brien, Independent Scholar
Framing Nādir Shāh’s Indian Portraits in a British Colonial Narrative
Discussant: 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
1:00-2:30p
LUNCH BREAK
2:30-4:30p
Panel
Intersections of Race and Gender in Islamic Art and Visual Culture
Sandra S. Williams, University of Michigan and Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Gender Conceal and Reveal in Pre-Modern Persianate Painting
Mika Natif, Associate Professor, George Washington University
"In the Name of the Mothers": Postpartum Scenes as Female Genealogies in Mughal India
Yasemin Gencer, Instructor, Wayne State University, and Affiliate Scholar, Indiana University's Institute for Advanced Study
Framed: Image and Race in the Early Turkish Republican Press
Christiane Gruber, Professor of Islamic Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Do-For-Self": The Visual Culture of the Nation of Islam
Discussant: Nancy Micklewright, Research Associate, Smithsonian
Panel Organizers: Christiane Gruber, Professor of Islamic Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and Holley Ledbetter, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
4:30-5:00p
BREAK
5:00-7:00p
Panel
Reconstructing Sense and Sensibilities from Museum Collections
Arvin Maghsoudlou, Ph.D. Candidate, Southern Methodist University
Rethinking Context in the Study of Precious Metalwork from Iranian Late Antiquity
Michelle Al-Ferzly, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Sense and Sensuality: Early Islamic Dining-Ware and the Museum
Rebecca Wrightson, Postdoctoral Fellow, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
The Other Half: Reconstructing the Context of Epigraphic Ceramics in the Early Islamic World
Jenny Peruski, Senior Research Associate, Arts of Africa, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University
Portal Patinas: Reconsidering Practices of Collection and Display in Three Carved Doors from Zanzibar
Discussant: Linda Komaroff, Curator and Department Head, Art of the Middle East, LACMA
Saturday, March 4, 2023
Herring Hall, Room 100
Rice University
8:15-8:30a
Welcome
Welcome Remarks
Farshid Emami, Assistant Professor, Rice University
8:30-10:30a
Panel
Space, Text, and Image: An Architecture of Memory
Hiba Abid, Curator, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, The New York Public Library
A Muslim Conception of Memory in the Arts of the Book? Color and Illuminated Forms in North African Manuscripts
Işın Taylan, Lecturer, Department of History, Yale University
Between Art and Science: Geographical Images in the Maʿrifetnāme
Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, Senior Curator, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
Mnemotechnics of Images in Pilgrimage Certificates and Manuals: A Codified Mental Visualization of the Holy Sites
Nur Sobers-Khan, Independent Researcher
Islamic mnemonics and devotional self-formation through visual and haptic practices: a case study of 19th-century Ottoman and South Asian imagery
Discussant: Nur Sobers-Khan, Independent Researcher
Panel Organizers: Hiba Abid, Curator, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, The New York Public Library
10:30-11:00a
BREAK
11:00a-1:00p
Panel
Architecture, Landscape and the Vernacular
Irem Gunduz-Polat, Ph.D. Candidate, Marmara University, Istanbul, and Research Assistant, Sakarya University, Turkey
Religious and Political Contexts Entangled: The Construction of the Mevlevi Lodge in Edirne
Sahar Hosseini, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
Looking From and Through the River: A Different Perspective on Seventeenth-Century Developments of Isfahan
Mohamed Ahmed Enab, Assistant Professor, Fayoum University
Zaydī Shiit Inscriptions on the Religious Ottoman Buildings in Yemen and its Connotations
Angela Andersen, Fellow, Centre for Studies in Religion and Society, University of Victoria, and Adjunct Faculty, University of Victoria
Contextualizing the Vernacular in Islamic Art: No Waqf, No Patron, No Architect, No Building
Parshati Dutta, Postgraduate Researcher, University of York
A Royal Caravanserai in a Refugee Crisis: Reconstructing the Mughal Sarai of Amanat Khan in the Context of Post-Partition India
Discussant: Abbey Stockstill, Assistant Professor, Southern Methodist University
1:00-2:00p
LUNCH BREAK
2:00-3:40p
Panel
Expanding Contexts for Islamic Art in the Americas
Alex Dika Seggerman, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University-Newark
Art Histories of Antebellum American Islam
Ashely Dimmig, Crossman Gallery Director, Department of Art and Design, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Localizing Islam at the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore
Caroline Olivia Wolf, Assistant Professor, Loyola University Chicago
Building Modernism in the Mahjar: Art and Architectural Patronage of the Syrian-Lebanese Diaspora in Northwest Argentina
Discussant: Emily Neumeier, Assistant Professor, Temple University
Panel Organizer: Ashley Dimmig, Crossman Gallery Director, Department of Art and Design, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
3:40-4:00p
BREAK
4:00-6:00p
Panel
Re-imaging Surface and Context with Digital Tools
Patricia Blessing, Assistant Professor, Princeton University
Reimagining Royal Space: The Qilij Arslan II Kiosk in Konya and its Lost Interior
Margaret Squires, Ph.D. Candidate, Courtauld Institute of Art
From Silk and Silver to Brick and Mortar: "Polonaise' Carpets and Transmediality in the 'Ali Qapu Palace'
Sarah Tabbal, Posdoctoral Researcher, Vitrocentre Romont, Switzerland
Islamic Stucco Glass Windows in their Contexts: Orientalist Paintings and Photographs as Historical Sources
Discussant: Heather Ecker, Independent Scholar and Curator
6:00-6:15p
Presentation
Closing Remarks
Emine Fetvacı, Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor in Islamic and Asian Art, Boston College, and President, Historians of Islamic Art Association
6:15-7:30p
Reception
Humanities Building | Lobby and Courtyard
Rice University