The Environment and Ecology in Islamic Art and Culture, November 2021. Submission deadline February 20, 2021.

How might the study of the visual, rooted in disciplines such as art history, anthropology, and archaeology of the larger Islamic world, engage with the concerns of this Symposium on practical, philosophical, and methodological grounds? The co-chairs of the Ninth Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art invite papers from established and emerging scholars whose research explores these themes through geological time across the arts of the core Islamic lands and the broader Muslim diaspora. Topics to consider might include but are not limited to:

• Anthropogenic transformations of landscapes and water bodies
• Conceptualizations and representations of the changing natural world
• Artistic and architectural responses to climatic events (ex. little ice age)
• Intersections with gender, race, and socioeconomic status
• Impact on contemporary artistic and curatorial practices

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