All Symposium events take place in the ground-floor Atrium. Registration tables will be located at the main entrance to VCUarts Qatar.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required. Information about the speakers and their presentations is available here.
5:00pm Symposium Registration
5:30pm: Symposium Opening
5:45pm: Keynote Address
Finbarr Barry Flood, Director of Silsila: Center for Material Histories,
William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of the Humanities, Institute of Fine Arts &
Department of Art History, New York University
Shifting Scales: Islamic Art History as Global Microhistory
The keynote address will be followed by an opening reception at VCUarts Qatar.
9:15am: Symposium Registration and Coffee
10:00am: Opening Remarks
10:15am: Talinn Grigor, Pedagogical Realignment and Hyphenated Historians of
Qajar Architecture: Vrdanis Eiwziwkʻchean and Kavasji Kiash in Dialogue
11:20am: Ellen Kenney, “From the Field”: Islamic Art History, Pedagogical Context,
and Global Turns
12:20pm: Lunch
1:30pm: Roundtable: Theory
Kirsten Scheid, Can Islamic Art and Our Practices Be Coeval?
Aparna Kumar, Karkhana as Method: Decentering Pedagogy of South Asian Art
Aditi Chandra, Re/animating the Subjects of Islamic Art History
3pm: Coffee Break
3:15pm: Roundtable Discussion: Method
Negar Habibi, Lack of Scientific Interest or How to Make it Visible: Teaching Islamic Art at the University of Geneva
Nebahat Avcıoğlu, Connecting Points
Jenny Norton-Wright, Islamic Art Online
10am: Opening Remarks
10:15am: Sam Bowker, Creating Connection: Islamic Art in Regional Australia
11:20am: Karen Exell, The Possibility of an Equitable Art Museum in the 21st-century Gulf
12:20pm: Lunch
1:30pm: Roundtable: Practice
Suheyla Takesh, “Paths Diverging Beneath Our Feet”: On Site-Specific Modernisms and Transcultural Exchange
Anissa Rahadiningtyas, The Neglected Dimension – Making an Exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Art from Southeast Asia
Mirjam Shatanawi, Decolonizing Islamic Art Collections
Sadia Shirazi, Slo Curating
3pm: Reception
4:15 – 5:45pm: Roundtable: Curating in a Global Context: Works in Progress with Vasif Kortun, Ranjit Hoskote, and Noora Abdulmajeed Hussain.
This part of the Symposium program will be held at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art. Shuttle buses will be available to take attendees
to Mathaf and to bring attendees back to VCUarts Qatar at its conclusion.
The Symposium will be live-streamed and recorded in its entirety for those who cannot travel to Doha to attend the event. Recordings will be available on the Symposium website in early 2024.
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