NYU SISLA Cities Workshop: Shiraz

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Date: Friday, Dec 6th
Time: 9:30-6:00pm
Location: 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

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December 06, 2019
Cities Workshop 4: Shiraz

 

Situated in Fars, a region of Iran rich in historical memories and monuments, the city of Shiraz has been a crucial nexus between maritime and terrestrial contacts between the central Islamic lands, the Gulf and the Indian Ocean since long before the advent of Islam. From architecture to painting and calligraphy, the renown of the city and its artistry was reflected in the mobility of artisans and artifacts across the Islamic lands. Fragments of these histories are scattered across learned articles and monographs, but a more holistic vision of the city and its role in material and social networks extending far beyond Fars remains elusive. This workshop brings together a range of international scholars who will present aspects of the city’s history and the resonances of its material culture from the pre-Islamic period through its transformation in modernity. 
 

9.45-10.00 Introduction, Finbarr Barry Flood, Silsila/NYU

10-11.00 Simon Rettig, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution: Behind the Name: Shirazi Manuscripts from the Injus to the Qajars.

11.00-11.30 Coffee

11.30-12.30 Renata Holod, University of Pennsylvania: The Penn Museum Nizami (NEP 33):  An Illustrated Book Made for Art Market.    

12.30-1.30 Lunch

1.30-2.30 Yves Porter, Aix-Marseille University: Shirazis in Indian Sultanates (14th-16th c.): Impact and Response.

2.30-3.30 Eloïse Brac de la Perrière, Sorbonne University: A Touch of Shiraz? Shirazi Influences on pre-Mughal Painting. A Review.

3.30-4.00 Tea

4.00-5.00 Talinn Grigor, UC Davis: The Return of Persepolis to Shiraz, 1771-1971

5.00-6.00 Setrag Manoukian, McGill University: Technology and Subjectivity in the Making of Modern Shiraz

Eloïse Brac de la Perrière is Associate Professor of Islamic Art History at the Sorbonne University. She recently headed an international research program devoted to Kalīla wa Dimna's manuscript paintings with the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Most of her research focuses on the book art in Sultanate India to which she has devoted several publications, the most recent of which is a collective work entitled Le Coran de Gwalior. Polysémie d’un manuscrit à peintures (edited with M. Buresi).

Talinn Grigor is a professor of art history in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of California, Davis. Her research concentrates on the ties between architecture and postcolonial theory, focused on Iran and Parsi India. Her books include Building Iran: Modernism, Architecture, and National Heritage under the Pahlavi Monarchs (2009) and Contemporary Iranian Art: From the Street to the Studio (2014).

Renata Holod is College of Women Class of 1963 Professor in the Humanities, History of Art Department, and Curator, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, at the University of Pennsylvania. She has carried out archeological and architectural fieldwork in Syria, Iran, Morocco, Turkey, Central Asia, Tunisia, and Ukraine. She served as the Convenor, Steering Committee Member and Master Jury Chair of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. She is co-author and co-editor of City in the Desert (1978); Architecture and Community: Building in the Islamic World Today, Aperture, New York, (1983); The Mosque and the Modern World (1997); An Island Through Time: Jerba Studies (2009) and The City in the Islamic World (2008).

Setrag Manoukian is an Italian anthropologist interested in knowledge and its relationship with power, understood both as existential and social force. His area of specialty is Iran. He teaches at McGill University at the Institute of Islamic Studies and the Department of Anthropology, which he currently chairs. He is the author of City of Knowledge in Twentieth Century Iran: Shiraz, History, Poetry (Routledge 2012).

Yves Porter teaches Islamic Arts at Aix-Marseille University; since 2018, he is part of Institut Universitaire de France. He has published numerous papers and books on Iranian and Indian arts and crafts and is internationally invited for talks and conferences on these matters.

Simon Rettig is Assistant Curator for the Arts of the Islamic world at the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, in Washington, D.C. A specialist of the arts of the book, he has curated several exhibitions, such as Nasta‘liq: The Genius of Persian Calligraphy and The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures of the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts. Rettig’s current projects include an exhibition on the Great Mongol Shahnama (opening late 2020) and a monograph on the Freer Khusraw u Shirin.

 

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