Islamic Art in Exchange

Organised by the Professorship of Islamic Art History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich and the Museum Fünf Kontinente, Munich

Participation: 
Please use our registration form for registration for all parts of the Colloquium including the Graduate Meeting.

Please note:
If you are a member of the Ernst-Herzfeld Gesellschaft | Ernst Herzfeld Society and already paid your annual membership fee, you do not need to contribute to the conference.
If you are not a member, the conference contribution would be 50 € for regular participants and 25 € for students (equivalent to the annual membership fee).
If you would like to become a member, please visit the membership website and fill out the form.

 

Pansee Atta, screencapture from Projections (2016), animation

Preliminary Programme

Thursday 6 July

9:00 Graduate Students Meeting & Registration

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19:00 Keynote Lecture 
Bahia Shehab (Cairo): Drinking from the Cup of the Beloved: Islamic Art inspiring Arab Design

RECEPTION WITH FOOD & DRINKS

 

Friday 7 July

8:30 Registration & Coffee
9:00 Welcome words
9:15-10:00 Ernst Herzfeld Award Paper

10:00-11:00 The Islamic World and the West in Conversation

Bilha Moor (Denver, CO): Illustrated Ottoman Cosmographies in Response to European Printed Books, ca. 1560-1600 
Ayşe Dilsiz Hartmuth (Vienna): The Lure of the Anti-Modern? Intersecting Perspectives on “700 Years of Turkish Art“

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 

11:30-13:00 Local, Global, Glocal?

Agnieszka Lic (Warsaw): Interregional and Local: Dynamics and Means of Artistic Exchange in the Early Islamic Persian/Arabian Gulf. The Case of Stuccoes from Siraf 
Katharina Meinecke (Leipzig): Forms and Meanings: Layers of Appropriation in Umayyad Visual Culture
Eman Shokry Hesham (Cairo): Opus Sectile Floor Decoration in Mamluk Egypt (1250-1517 AD)

13:00-14:30 Lunch Break

14:30-16:00 Exchange Within the Islamic World

Marcus Pilz (Coburg): The Medieval Islamic Rock Crystal Vessels: Abbasid Art for the Fatimid Court?
Aila Santi (London): Early Islamic Ceremonial Spaces: Cross-Cultural Architectural Encounters in Mesopotamia
Peter Tamas Nagy (Doha): Exchanging Material Culture in the Fourteenth-Century Western Mediterranean: The Fez–Granada–Tlemcen Triangle

16:30 GENERAL ASSEMBLY

 

Saturday 8 July 

9:30-11:00 Reception of Islamic Material Culture in Europe

Anahita Mittertrainer (Munich): Lost in Translation? A Case Study on Selected Objects from the Collection of Ludwig I at the Museum Five Continents
Magdalena Pinker (Warsaw): A Priest, an Aristocrat and an Actress: Provenance and Reception of Islamic Art in Poland on the Example of the Collection in the National Museum in Warsaw
Franziska Niemand (Fribourg/Romont): Transfer and Appropriation: Islamic Architecture at Nineteenth-Century World’s Fairs and the Case of Colored Glass Stucco Windows

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30-13:00 Modern and Contemporary Art & Architecture

Martin Nixon (Dubai): Hurufiyya and Modernism: Calligraphy and Abstraction in Twentieth-Century Arab and Iranian Painting
Ahmed Abdelazim (Madison, WI): The Making and Remaking of Contemporary Islamic Architecture: Migration and the Development of a Pan-Islamic Style During the 1980s
Inbal Kol (Jerusalem): In and Out: Thoughts about the Contemporary Moroccan Art Scene

13:00-15:00 Lunch Buffet & Poster Session

Posters by Nur Efeoglu, Maximilian Hartmuth & Lukas Stampfer, Dominik Lengyel & Catherine Toulouse, Berenike Metzler, Agnes Rameder, Mustafa Tupev

15:30-16:30 Islamic Art in Conversation with the East

Laura Castro Royo (St Andrews): The Origins of the Mythological Bird Sīmurgh
Dorothée Kreuzer (Bonn): The Scrawny Phoenix and the Elegant Goose: On Beauty in the Cairo Bustan
Shunhua Jin (Marseille): The Drinking Man in Safavid Blue-and-White Ceramics: On "Persianizing" Chinese Motifs

16:30-17:00 Coffee Break

17:00-18:30 Hybrid Objects?

Ilse Sturkenboom (Munich): Another Step in the Appropriation of Chinese Aesthetics in 15th-Century Iran: The New York Public Library Makhzan al-Asrār Revisited 
Nicole Pulichene (Madison, WI/ New York): Luxuriating in Paradise: Re-Attributing an Enigmatic Ivory Pyxis at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Abbey Stockstill (Dallas, TX): Mediterranean Convergence: The Implications of Craft in the Kutubiyya Minbar

SPEAKERS' DINNER

Sunday 9 July

Tours and viewings at the Museum Fünf Kontinente and the Munich Residence