Thursday, May 1, 2014
OPENING REMARKS
3:30-3:45 PM
ARTICULATING PRESENCE, SIGNALING AUTHORITY
Christopher Wood, Chair and Discussant
3:45-5:30 PM
Marianna Shreve Simpson, University of Pennsylvania, “Who’s hiding here? Artists and their signatures in late Timurid and Safavid painting”
Sussan Babaie, Courtauld Institute (UK) “Chasing after the muhandess: Visual articulations of the architect”
RECEPTION
Yale University Art Gallery, 5:30-7 PM
Friday, May 2, 2014
HISTORICAL AND LITERARY CONSTRUCTS
Abbas Amanat, Chair and Discussant
9:00-11:00 AM
Azfar Moin, Southern Methodist University, “A Connected History of Timurid Era Desecration of Shrines and Temples”
Shahzad Bashir, Stanford University, “Peeking into the Past as a Theme in Persianate Painting and Chronicles”
Emine Fetvaci, Boston University, “Love and Death in Early-Modern Istanbul”
MODALITIES OF PERCEPTION
Sheila Canby, Chair and Discussant
11:15 AM-1:15 PM
Christiane Gruber, University of Michigan, “In Defense and Devotion: Affective Responses to Images of the Prophet Muhammad”
Jamal Elias, University of Pennsylvania, “Sufis, Tropes and Paintings: The Case of the Mevlevis in the Ottoman Empire”
Sylvia Houghteling, Yale University, “Sentiment in Silks: Safavid Figural Textiles in Mughal Courtly Culture”
INHABITATION AS SELF-REPRESENTATION
Kishwar Rizvi, Chair and Discussant
2:30-4:30 PM
Çiğdem Kafesioğlu, Boğaziçi University, “Crossing, Seeing: Architecture and the traveling subject in the early modern Ottoman world”
Chanchal Dadlani, Wake Forest University, “Locating Urban Subjectivity in Eighteenth-Century Mughal Delhi”
Dipti Khera, New York University, “Feeling of a Place: Picturing Architecture, Affect and Agency in Eighteenth-Century Udaipur”
Navina Haider, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “From Subject into Setting: Externalizing mood and emotion in Deccani painting”
CLOSING REMARKS