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Reading the Image: Performing the Text
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Schedule of Lectures
Friday November 22, 2002:
Session 1: Text and Image in Mongol Iran
Chair: Dr. Stefano Carboni, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1 :00: Professor Priscilla P. Soucek, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Welcome and Introduction
1:30: Professor Bernard O’Kane, The American University in Cairo,
Text Image Relationships in Early Kalila and Dimna Illustrations
2:00: Dr. Teresa Fitzherbert, The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University
Text and Image in the Freer Bal’ami Manuscript
Break
Chair: Dr. Linda Komaroff, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
3:00: Dr. Elaine Wright, The Chester Beatty Library
Steped Text Blocks in the Manuscripts of Injuid Shiraz
3:30: Professor Sheila Blair, Boston College
Reading the Textless Image
Saturday November 23
Session 2: Text and Image in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Chair: Professor Priscilla Soucek, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
10:00: Professor David Roxburgh, Harvard University
Ambiguity in the Painting of Muhammad Siyah Qalam and the Responses of Shaykhi and Darvish Muhammad
10:30: Professor Jerome W. Clinton, Princeton University
Word and Image in the Peck Shahnamah
Break
Session 3: The Hamza Nama Tradition in Text and Image
Chair: Dr. Aimee Froom, The Brooklyn Museum of Art
11:30: Professor Remke Kruk, The University of Leiden
The Changing Faces of Hamza:Hamza in popular Arab Story Telling
12:00: Professor Daniel Ehnbom, The University of Virginia
Visual Narrative in Akbar’s Qissa-i Amir Hamza: Indian Sources
and Mughal Adaptations
12:30: Professor John Seyller, The University of Vermont
Story Telling in the Dastan-i Amir Hamza
1-2:30: Lunch
Session 4: Text and Image in the Modern Near East
Chair: Professor Shiva Balaghi, The Kevorkian Center, NewYorkUniversity
2:30: Professor Priscilla P. Soucek, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
The Abbey Weed Grey Collection in Historical Perspective
3:00: Dr. Sheila Canby, The British Museum
Collecting Contemporary Iranian Art at the British Museum: its scope, aims and future
3:30: Professor Sussan Babaie, The University of Michigan
Visualizing the Discourse for the Masses: Iranian Art after the Revolution
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