From the category archives:
2023
Day 1: 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
Discussants: Hala Auji, Associate Professor of Art History and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair for Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University and Radha Dalal, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture and Director of Art History at VCUarts Qatar.
Full link : https://vimeo.com/1012754633
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
Discussants: Hala Auji, Associate Professor of Art History and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair for Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University and Radha Dalal, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture and Director of Art History at VCUarts Qatar.
Full link : https://vimeo.com/1012754633
Day 2, Video 1
Talinn Grigor, Professor of Art History, Department of Art and Art History at the University of California, Davis
Pedagogical Realignment and Hyphenated Historians of Qajar Architecture: Vrdanis Eiwziwkʻchean and Kavasji Kiash in Dialogue
Introduction: Saif Al-Ansari, Art History Major, VCUarts Qatar
Discussant: Hala Auji, Associate Professor of Art History and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair for Islamic Art at VCU School of the Arts
Talinn Grigor, Professor of Art History, Department of Art and Art History at the University of California, Davis
Pedagogical Realignment and Hyphenated Historians of Qajar Architecture: Vrdanis Eiwziwkʻchean and Kavasji Kiash in Dialogue
Introduction: Saif Al-Ansari, Art History Major, VCUarts Qatar
Discussant: Hala Auji, Associate Professor of Art History and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair for Islamic Art at VCU School of the Arts
Ellen Kenney, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, American University in Cairo (AUC)
“From the Field”: Islamic Art History, Pedagogical Context, and Global Turns
Introduction: Aisha Al-Hardan, Art History Major, VCUarts Qatar
Discussant: Jochen Sokoly, Associate Professor of Art History of the Islamic World, VCUarts Qatar.
Full link : https://vimeo.com/1014507648
“From the Field”: Islamic Art History, Pedagogical Context, and Global Turns
Introduction: Aisha Al-Hardan, Art History Major, VCUarts Qatar
Discussant: Jochen Sokoly, Associate Professor of Art History of the Islamic World, VCUarts Qatar.
Full link : https://vimeo.com/1014507648
Day 2, Video 2
Roundtable: Theory
Kirsten Scheid, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Affiliated Faculty in Fine Arts & Art History, American University of Beirut
Can Islamic Art and Our Practices Be Coeval?
Aparna Kumar, Lecturer in Art and Visual Cultures of the Global South, Department of the History of Art, University College London
Karkhana as Method: Decentering Pedagogy of South Asian Art
Aditi Chandra, Assistant Professor of Art History, Global Art Studies Program, University ofCalifornia-Merced
Re/animating the Subjects of Islamic Art History
Introduction: Ashley Botkin, Art History Graduate Student, VCUarts Richmond
Discussant: Maggie Unverzagt Goddard, Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Co-director of the Public Humanities Lab at VCU’s Humanities Research Center.
Full link : https://vimeo.com/1014674734
Roundtable: Theory
Kirsten Scheid, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Affiliated Faculty in Fine Arts & Art History, American University of Beirut
Can Islamic Art and Our Practices Be Coeval?
Aparna Kumar, Lecturer in Art and Visual Cultures of the Global South, Department of the History of Art, University College London
Karkhana as Method: Decentering Pedagogy of South Asian Art
Aditi Chandra, Assistant Professor of Art History, Global Art Studies Program, University ofCalifornia-Merced
Re/animating the Subjects of Islamic Art History
Introduction: Ashley Botkin, Art History Graduate Student, VCUarts Richmond
Discussant: Maggie Unverzagt Goddard, Postdoctoral Fellow in History and Co-director of the Public Humanities Lab at VCU’s Humanities Research Center.
Full link : https://vimeo.com/1014674734
Day 2, Video 3
Roundtable: Method
Negar Habibi, Lecturer of Iranian and Islamic Arts, University of Geneva
Lack of Scientific Interest or How to Make it Visible: Teaching Islamic Art at the University of Geneva
Nebahat Avcıoğlu, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Connecting Points
Jenny Norton-Wright, Arabic Scientific Manuscripts Curator, British Library/Qatar Foundation Partnership
Islamic Art Online
Introduction: Mary Catherine Langston, Art History Graduate Student, VCUarts Richmond
Discussant: Monica Merlin, Assistant Professor in the Art History Department, VCUarts Qatar.
Full link : https://vimeo.com/1014937084
Roundtable: Method
Negar Habibi, Lecturer of Iranian and Islamic Arts, University of Geneva
Lack of Scientific Interest or How to Make it Visible: Teaching Islamic Art at the University of Geneva
Nebahat Avcıoğlu, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
Connecting Points
Jenny Norton-Wright, Arabic Scientific Manuscripts Curator, British Library/Qatar Foundation Partnership
Islamic Art Online
Introduction: Mary Catherine Langston, Art History Graduate Student, VCUarts Richmond
Discussant: Monica Merlin, Assistant Professor in the Art History Department, VCUarts Qatar.
Full link : https://vimeo.com/1014937084
Day 3, Video 1
Sam Bowker, Associate Professor, Charles Stuart University
Creating Connection: Islamic Art in Regional Australia
Introduction: Nour Tarroun, Art History Major, VCUarts Qatar.
Discussant: Radha Dalal, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture and Director of Art History at VCUarts Qatar
Sam Bowker, Associate Professor, Charles Stuart University
Creating Connection: Islamic Art in Regional Australia
Introduction: Nour Tarroun, Art History Major, VCUarts Qatar.
Discussant: Radha Dalal, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture and Director of Art History at VCUarts Qatar
Karen Exell, Executive Director of Cultural Strategy and Development, Diriyah Gate, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
The Possibility of an Equitable Art Museum in the 21st-century Gulf
Introduction: Dana Al-Kubaisi, Art History Major, VCUarts Qatar.
Discussant: Neelima Jeychandran, Assistant Professor of Art History, VCUarts Qatar.
Full link : https://vimeo.com/1014953293
The Possibility of an Equitable Art Museum in the 21st-century Gulf
Introduction: Dana Al-Kubaisi, Art History Major, VCUarts Qatar.
Discussant: Neelima Jeychandran, Assistant Professor of Art History, VCUarts Qatar.
Full link : https://vimeo.com/1014953293
Day 3, Video 2
Roundtable: Practice
Marika Sardar, Consultant and Independent Scholar
Themes, Geographies and Chronologies: Rethinking Displays of Islamic Art in North America
Anissa Rahadiningtyas, Assistant Curator, Islamic Aesthetics in Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asia, National Gallery Singapore
The Neglected Dimension – Making an Exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Art from Southeast Asia
Mirjam Shatanawi, Lecturer of Heritage Theory, Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam University of the Arts
Decolonizing Islamic Art Collections
Sadia Shirazi, Curator, International Art, Tate Modern and Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University
Slo Curating & A Case Study: Rasheed Araeen: Zero to Infinity
Introduction: Lauryn Gilliam, Art History Graduate Student, VCUarts Richmond
Discussant: Tobias Wofford, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Full link : https://vimeo.com/1014250362
Roundtable: Practice
Marika Sardar, Consultant and Independent Scholar
Themes, Geographies and Chronologies: Rethinking Displays of Islamic Art in North America
Anissa Rahadiningtyas, Assistant Curator, Islamic Aesthetics in Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asia, National Gallery Singapore
The Neglected Dimension – Making an Exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Islamic Art from Southeast Asia
Mirjam Shatanawi, Lecturer of Heritage Theory, Reinwardt Academy, Amsterdam University of the Arts
Decolonizing Islamic Art Collections
Sadia Shirazi, Curator, International Art, Tate Modern and Visiting Scholar, Johns Hopkins University
Slo Curating & A Case Study: Rasheed Araeen: Zero to Infinity
Introduction: Lauryn Gilliam, Art History Graduate Student, VCUarts Richmond
Discussant: Tobias Wofford, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University.
Full link : https://vimeo.com/1014250362
Day 3, Video 3
Roundtable: Curating in a Global Context: Works in Progress
Noora Abdulmajeed, Associate Curator at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art
The Case of Modern and Contemporary Art from the Arab World and its Cultural Connections
Vasif Kortun, Independent Curator, Writer and Educator
Hearsay Stories
Discussant: Holiday Powers, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History, VCUarts Qatar.
Full link : https://vimeo.com/1015115932
Roundtable: Curating in a Global Context: Works in Progress
Noora Abdulmajeed, Associate Curator at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art
The Case of Modern and Contemporary Art from the Arab World and its Cultural Connections
Vasif Kortun, Independent Curator, Writer and Educator
Hearsay Stories
Discussant: Holiday Powers, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History, VCUarts Qatar.
Full link : https://vimeo.com/1015115932
