ART HISTORY OPEN SESSION: Arts of the Islamic World
Friday, February 16, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor, Hilton New York
Chair: Marianna Shreve Simpson, independent scholar, Baltimore
From Textiles to Algorithms: Revising an Islamic Aesthetic Paradigm
Carol Bier, Textile Museum
Reinventing the Ahl al-bayt: Sunni Patrons and Shi’ite Shrines in Medieval Aleppo
Stephennie Mulder, University of Pennsylvania
Multiple Visions: Official and Unofficial Illustrated Ottoman Histories
Emine Fetvaci, Stanford University
Invented Traditions: Uses of the Past in the Samanid Mausoleum at Bukhara
Melanie Michailidis, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Mughal and Rajput Architecture: Reconsidering the Borders of Islamic Art History
D. Fairchild Ruggles, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign