Renew your membership if you have not already done so for 2010, and become a recruiter of new members.To help us develop our grant and meeting program, please consider renewing at the sustainer level.Our expanding field deserves to be represented at national and international art historical and cultural association meetings.
Special thanks to Persis Berlecamp for organizing the 2010 majlis on the campus of the University of Chicago, held February 23 in conjunction with the CAA Annual Meetings in Chicago.
Ülkü Bates has agreed to organize the 2011 majlis, which will be held in conjunction with the CAA Annual Meetings in New York, on the campus of Hunter College.We are grateful that she has agreed to take on this task.Look for the call for papers is on the announcements flag; the logistic details will appear later in the year.
Our congratulations to Matt Saba [University of Chicago] who was awarded the 2010 Margaret B.Ševčenko Prize for his paper, “Abbasid Lusterware and the Aesthetics of ‘ajab.” We encourage all students to submit their work for this prize; this is a good beginning for future recognition.The deadline for submission to the 2011 Ševčenko Prize is November 15, 2010.
We are continuing with preparations for the Second HIAA Symposium at the Freer and Sackler Galleries of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. October 21-23, 2010. We thank the Director, Julian Raby and the Chief Curator, Massumeh Farhad for hosting this event. In these days of financial cut - backs, we are working hard to find sufficient funding to cover all costs. The program has now been finalized, and we encourage you to register as soon as possible to reserve a place in the special workshops.Go on the symposium tab of the website and do it now. We expect to see all of you there!!
Our newsletter editor, Olga Bush has posted many new items, events, publications, calls for papers and conference announcements.Let her know of any news, in any language dealing with activities and events in our field. We thank all those who contributed to HIAA’s new publications posting, and will be updating and expanding these in the coming months.
Our census of academic and museum positions is being continually updated; please send in your additions and corrections. We are extending this census to all countries where the field of Islamic art, architecture and archaeology is taught and where its materials are studied, exhibited and collected.
