HIAA-Sponsored Panel at CAA: "New Horizons in Islamic Art History" (In-person)

Thursday, February 19, 11:00 am-12:30 pm Central Time

Historical Perception and Artistic Agency in the Jāmiʿ al-Tawārīkh: A Transcultural Perspective, Xinyu Liang, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ancient Splendor and Modern Valor through Photography: The 1890 Nile Voyage of Hidiv Tevfik, Selin Aran, Rutgers University New Brunswick

Talismanic Shirts as a Text, Textile, and Technology: Recovering Tactile Eloquence of the Early Modern Islamic World, Sanja Savic, Columbia University

Mural Paintings and Suburban Landscape Around the Shrine of Jalal al-Din Rumi and Mevlevi Lodges in the Fifteenth Century, Tugrul Acar, Harvard University

The panel sponsored by the Historians of Islamic Art Association at CAA serves as this year's Majlis symposium, featuring the latest research in Islamic art history. We invite our members to join the discussion and listen to this exciting lineup of papers. After the Majlis, you can plan to stick around to attend the business meeting, which will take place directly afterward in the same room.