Lecture Series: Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series (VIAHSS).

FALL 2023.

Friday, October 6, 2023
Onur Öztürk (Columbia College Chicago)
What Happened to Chicago’s Only Islamic Art Gallery? Reflections on Recent Curatorial Decisions at the Art Institute of Chicago

Friday, October 20, 2023
Kianoosh Motaghedi (Independent Scholar, Tehran)
The Glory of European Narratives and Themes in Qajar Tiles: A Case Study of Saltanat Abad Palace, Tehran

Friday, November 3, 2023
Meriem Ben Ammar (University of Cagliari)
The Study of the Sābāṭ in the Islamic City: Relationships between Architecture and Jurisprudence

Friday, November 17, 2023
Alexandra Solovyev (University of Oxford)
Photographing Ephesus in the Railway Age

Friday, December 1, 2023
Veronika Poier (University of Vienna)
Mediation between Architecture, Word, and Image: The Inscriptions of the Green Complex (1419-1424) for Sultan Mehmed I in Bursa

Friday, December 15, 2023
Peyvand Firouzeh (University of Sydney)
Prostrating Carpets: Body, Textile, and Architecture at the Mahan Shrine
AND
Sinem Arcak Casale (University of Minnesota)
Gifts in the Age of Empire: Ottoman-Safavid Cultural Exchange, 1500-1639

All talks are presented via Zoom on Fridays at noon EST/5PM UK/7PM Turkey (unless otherwise noted)
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