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Sensescapes of War and Ritual in the Early Modern Islamic World, c. 1500-1800
13-14 February 2025
Utrecht
Paper proposals:
Please send your proposals to y.unal@uu.nl including paper title, abstract (max 250 words), name, and institution, by December 15.
We cordially invite you to participate in the 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 8-12 September 2025.The section on Material Culture, Art History and Archaeology is open for papers referring to periods and regions covered by Oriental Studies at large, although traditionally there has been a focus on Islamic cultures. The section will be organized by Ilse Sturkenboom (LMU Munich) and Lorenz Korn (University of Bamberg). This is an opportunity to meet and to discuss ongoing research and to be in touch with other areas of SWANA-related academia.
Please submit your abstract through the conference portal until 31 January 2025. Pre-organized panels on specific topics are also welcome.
For all technical issues concerning registration, submission of abstracts etc. please refer to the conference website: https://www.dot2025.fau.eu/
20th September 2024
Castelo de S. Jorge – Lissabon
Organization: CH-ULisboa; UNIARQ; GEO-CML
Sponsor: Lisboa Cultura – Castelo de S. Jorge
At the University of Vienna is the Department of Art History looking for a/an University assistant predoctoral in the field of Islamic Art History around Professor Markus Ritter.
Job vacancy starting: 10/15/2024 | Working hours: 30.00
Interviews are expected to take place at the beginning of October.
Position for a specialist in Ming-period decorated paper within the ERC project GLOBAL DECO PAPER
Position for a specialist in Ottoman decorated paper within the ERC project GLOBAL DECO PAPER
Historicizing the Muslim Sensorium:
Toward a Sensory History of Islam in the Early Modern World
Utrecht University, October 17-18, 2024
Deadline: June 1, 2024
Production, Transmission & Interpretation: an interdisciplinary conference on Islamic Art, Architecture, and Archaeology organised by the Departments of History of Art, and Archaeology and scheduled to take place in the University of York (Campus West and King’s Manor) between 13 and 15 March 2024.
In addition to 27 academic papers presented by international scholars across seven panels, the highlights of the conference include a curatorial walkthrough of the exhibition Arts of the Islamic World led by Dr Richard Piran McClary, and keynote addresses by leading experts of Islamic visual and material culture – China on Display: Ming Porcelain in Mughal Architecture by Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi, The Islamic Fascination with Domes by Professor Robert Hillenbrand, and Learning from Mistakes: Craft Practice and the Interpretation of Early Islamic Art by Professor Marcus Milwright.
Attendance is by registration only with limited available seats; links and relevant details follow:
Day 1 Free registration for both Inaugural Lecture and Curatorial Walkthrough
Day 2 Paid registration for conference
Independent free registration for Professor Hillenbrand’s public keynote
(Details forthcoming on the History of Art events page and social media handles)
Day 3 Paid registration for conference and Closing Keynote
The complete three-day programme can be downloaded here and questions may be sent to Parshati Dutta and Nausheen Hoosein at islamic-art-2024-conference@york.ac.uk
07.-09. November 2024
Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany
Islamic Archaeology Conference 2024 invites scholars, researchers, and professionals
worldwide to participate in a comprehensive exploration of the material culture of the Early and Middle Islamic periods (600-1500 AD) and in analyzing historical narratives and syntheses that the discipline contributes to. This conference aims to provide a platform for contributions from diverse groups of people and for exchanging ideas, methodologies, and discoveries in Islamic archaeology.
Deadline: 31. March 2024
19th Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft | Ernst Herzfeld Society
Romont (Switzerland) 4 July 2024
Are you a graduate student in Islamic Art, Architecture, or Archaeology? Are you interested in meeting other students working on related topics? Would you like to discuss your research with your peers? How about presenting a paper based on your research at the graduate student meeting of the Ernst Herzfeld Society?
The graduate student meeting offers an opportunity for graduate students in the fields of Islamic Art History, Archaeology, and Architecture to present their ongoing research while providing a platform for discussion and networking. It is organized by Suzanne Compagnon of Utrecht University. It will take place at the Vitrocentre Romont in Romont (Switzerland) on Thursday 4 July 2024 in conjunction with the 19th Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society.
Curator Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art seeks to fill in a Curator position in Islamic Art (full-time) to the next possible date.
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in History of Islamic Art and Architecture, American University in Cairo
The Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations invites applications from a historian of art and architecture with a primary focus on the study of the Islamic world before 1800 for an open-rank appointment that will begin in the fall of 2024. This is a fixed-term position for four years, renewable upon successful review.
Deadline: 30.01.2024
The Institute of Archaeological Sciences at Goethe-University, Frankfurt am Main, seeks to fill in a PostDoc-position in Islamic Archaeology (part-time, 50%, TV-GU-E13) to the next possible date. The position is for three years with a possible extension after positive evaluation.
Deadline: 21.11.2023
19th Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft | Ernst Herzfeld Society
Vitrocentre Romont, Switzerland, 4-6 July 2024
In the field of Islamic art, glass continues to be one of the less researched media. While glass mosaics, stucco glass windows or blown glass produced in the region aroused the interest of scholars in the emerging disciplines of Islamic archaeology and art history in the 19th and early 20th centuries, its study increasingly lost importance in the course of the 20th century and is now largely confined to specialized circles, even though glass has always played a significant role in the art and architecture of the Islamic world.
(Extended) Deadline for submissions: 31 December 2023
Notification of acceptance: 1 February 2024
Position of a Senior Scientist (Art History Image Lab – Historical collections, databases and digital stocks) (100%) at the Institute of Art History at the University of Vienna
Application deadline: 10 Nov 2023
Three Cases of Persian Carpet Provenance in the Lands of the Former Habsburg Empire
When: 13 October 2023, 6 pm
Where: Auditorium der James-Simon-Galerie (Besuchereingang Erdgeschoss / Bodestraße / 10178 Berlin)
No registration necessary
Archäologisches Zentrum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
13–14 October 2023
Das Museum für Islamische Kunst zusammen mit dem Zentralarchiv der Staatlichen Museen, Berlin und das Institut für Kunstgeschichte und Musikwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz veranstaltet am 13. und 14. Oktober 2023 einen Workshop zum Thema: „Erwerbungen und Provenienzen Islamischer Kunst zwischen 1933-1945: Aktuelle Forschung und Vernetzung“. Der Workshop ist der erste seiner Art für Forschende innerhalb und außerhalb öffentlicher Sammlungen in Deutschland. Ziel ist es, die Herausforderungen bei der Erforschung der Herkunft von Objekten aus islamisch geprägten Kulturkreisen zu diskutieren, aktuelle Projekte vorzustellen und Gemeinsamkeiten in Sammlungspraktiken und Objektbiografien zu anderen außereuropäischen Sammlungskontexten zu erarbeiten.
Die Teilnehmer*innenzahl des Workshops ist begrenzt, daher bitten wir um Anmeldung bis 10.10.2023 über naneuman@uni-mainz.de. Für den öffentlichen Abendvortrag ist keine Anmeldung erforderlich.
Für Rückfragen können Sie uns gerne unter isl@smb.spk-berlin.de kontaktieren.
Der Erste Kunstwissenschaftliche Congress 1873, die Wiener Weltausstellung und die MuseenAnkündigung einer Tagung
A cooperation of the University of Vienna, Institute of Art History, Chair of Islamic Art History and MAK – Museum of Applied Arts
Changing Materiality and Craftmanship in the Decorative Arts of the Middle East and North Africa, 18th–20th Centuries
International Conference, Vitrocentre Romont, CH
3–4 November 2023
Post-doctoral research and teaching position (80–100%, non tenure-track) available at the Chair of the History of Architecture and Preservation of the Institute of Art History, University of Bern
Starting 1 September 2023 (or as agreed) for two years (with an option for extension).
Application deadline: 15 June 2023
