AMCA and HIAA Sponsored Panels at CAA 2018 | AMCA | Association for Modern + Contemporary Art of the Arab World, Iran + Turkey

AMCA and HIAA Sponsored Panels at CAA 2018

This year’s CAA in Los Angeles features two panels sponsored by AMCA and HIAA (Historians of Islamic Art) back to back in the same room on Thursday, Feb. 22. The HIAA panel, beginning at 10:30 a.m., precedes the AMCA panel, which starts at 2:00. Please find the details below. We look forward to seeing you there!

AMCA-Sponsored Panel at CAA

ISLAMIC ART CIRCA 1900

Time: 02/22/20182:00PM–3:30PM
Location: Room 503

Chair: Alex Dika Seggerman, Yale University

“Islamic Art and the Turn to Tapestry: Women Artists in Tunis.” Jessica Gerschultz, University of Kansas

“The Muybridge Albums in Istanbul: Photography as Diplomacy in the Late Ottoman Empire,” Emily Neumeier, The Ohio State University

“From Calligraphy to Handicraft: Art Education Reform in the Late Ottoman Empire,”
Martina Becker, University of Michigan

“Alabaster and Emulsion: Photographs of Muhammad Ali Architecture,” Alex Dika Seggerman, Yale University

Preceded by HIAA-Sponsored Panel:

THE “THREE EMPIRES” REDUX: ISLAMIC INTERREGIONALITY IN THE AGE OF MODERNITY

Time: 02/22/201810:30AM–12:00PM
Location: Room 503

Chairs: Chanchal Dadlani, Wake Forest University; Ünver Rüstem, Johns Hopkins University

“Transcultural Compilations in Eighteenth-Century Ottoman Albums: Connecting the Islamicate World through Material Exchange and Literary Imagination,”  Gwendolyn Collaço, Harvard University

“Remembering Rūm: Worldly Milieus and the “Bastard” Architecture of Colonial Modernity in a Hindu Pilgrimage Site,”   Sugata Ray, University of California, Berkeley

“The Nasir al-Din Shah Album: A Narrative of Collecting from the Mughals to the Qajars”
Naciem Nikkhah, University of Cambridge

“Imperium Camera: How Photography Revolutionized Islamicate Empires in the Nineteenth Century,”   Staci Gem Scheiwiller, California State University, Stanislaus

Discussant: Anastassia Botchkareva, Independent Scholar