The Fifth Biennial Conference of the Historians of Islamic Art Association celebrates the European ‘roots’ of the study of the arts that fall under the cultural umbrella of Islam, and the formation of the important early collections and exhibitions that launched its scholarship. Those early, mostly connoisseurial categories of regional types and styles – the “Moresque”, Persian painting, Turkish tiles, Indian decorative arts – formed the foundations from which universalizing narratives of “Islamic” arts emerged, especially in the period after the Second World War. Some fifty years later, we are witnessing a resurgence of the study of regional specificities, augmented with deeper research into the diverse facets of any given locality or artistic form, and a greater commitment to the linguistic and cultural particularities that shaped the arts, architecture and archaeology in a specific locale. Rigorous application of trans-disciplinary research strategies have contributed to the deepening of our understanding of the arts of Islam in local terms, and have allowed us to embrace broader historical trajectories to include the modern and contemporary in our field.
14:15–14:30
Welcome Remarks: Deborah Swallow, Professor and Director, The Courtauld Institute of Art and Sheila Canby, HIAA president
14:30–15:30
15:30–16:30
Drinks reception
06:00–08:00
08:00–10:00
Lunch break and return to The Courtauld
10:00–11:30
11:30–12:00
Tea & Coffee
00:00–13:30
14:00–15:00
15:00–16:00
Drinks Reception
05:30–07:00
07:00–07:30
Tea & Coffee
07:30–09:00
09:00–10:30
Lunch
10:30–12:00
12:00–12:30
Tea & Coffee
12:30–14:00
14:00–14:15
Short break
14:15–15:00
15:00–15:30
15:30–17:00
Drinks and Tapas Reception at Fernandes & Wells, Somerset House
06:00–11:00
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