Islamic Art History and Archaeology in Crisis? Challenges and New Perspectives

The University of Zürich in cooperation with the German Archaeological Institute in Madrid is holding a conference on ‘Islamic Art History and Archaeology in Crisis? Challenges and New Perspectives‘ from 12-14 January 2017.

The Programme:

January 12, 2017, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

18.00-18.15 INAUGURATION

Ilmo. Sr. Decano de la Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de UAM

18.15-18.45 OPENING REMARKS

Fernando Valdés Fernández, Francine Giese, Fernando Quesada Sainz

18.45-19.45 INAUGURAL LECTURE

Chair: Juan Carlos Ruiz Souza (Universidad Complutense Madrid)

Antonio Almagro Gorbea (Escuela de Estudios Árabes CSIC)

La arqueología de al-Andalus, entre el ayer y el mañana

20.00 OPENING RECEPTION

January 13, 2017, Instituto Arqueológico Alemán de Madrid, Calle de Serrano 159

10.15-10.30 OPENING REMARKS

Dirce Marzoli (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Madrid)

ISLAMIC ARCHAEOLOGY

Chair: Fernando Valdés Fernández (Universidad Autónoma Madrid)

10.30-11.00 Cristina Tonghini (Universitá Ca’Foscari of Venice)

Can any archaeologist become an expert in Islamic archaeology?

11.00-11.30 Vanessa Rose (INHA / InVisu Paris)

Connaissance et survivance du califat abbasside à Samarra

Coffee break

12.00-12.30 Alexander Bar-Magen (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)

Sepharad through Archaeology. Renewed Perspectives for its Study

12.30-13.00 Alberto León (Universidad de Córdoba)

“Orgullo y prejuicio”. La arqueología de la Qurtuba andalusí en el siglo XXI

13.00-13.30 Felix Arnold (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Madrid)

Archaeology between site management and scientific progress: The case of al-Rummaniya (Córdoba)

 

Lunch

 

ARCHIVES AND DOKUMENTATION

Chair: Michael Kunst (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Madrid)

15.00-15.30 Franziska Bloch (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Berlin)

The Syrian Heritage Archive Project of the German Archaeological Institute and the Museum of Islamic Art Berlin: A digital register of monuments and sites and possible applications in times of crisis.

15.30-16.00 Emanuele E. Intagliata (Koç University, Istanbul)

Archival research in time of conflict: the case of the Sanctuary of Baʿalshamīn in Palmyra

16.00-16.30 Ignacio Arce (University of Copenhagen)

Two decades of intervention and documentation on Islamic Heritage in the Near East. Assessment and Perspectives

 

Coffee break

HERITAGE PRESERVATION

Chair: Francine Giese (University of Zurich)

17.00-17.30 Baharak Tabibi (Nişantaşı University, Istanbul)

Rethinking the Iranian Architectural and Culture Heritage in Identity-Making before and after the Iranian Revolution

17.30-18.00 Fatma Abdel Aziz (Qatar University)

Public archeology in Doha, Qatar: an investigation of the ‘Origins of Doha Project’ (and its potential to target a multicultural community)

18.00-18.30 Tobias Strahl (Technische Universität Dresden)

A Contested past – on the Disappearance of the Islamic Heritage at the Balkan Peninsula

21.00 DINER AT THE RESIDENCE OF THE SWISS EMBASSADOR IN MADRID (INVITATION REQUIRED)

January 14, 2017, Instituto Arqueológico Alemán de Madrid

 

NEW APPROACHES

Chair: Ana Echevarría Arsuaga (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia)

10.00-10.30 Jennifer Pochodzalla (Cluster of Excellence „Asia and Europe in a Global Context“, Karl Jaspers Centre for Advanced Transcultural Studies, Heidelberg)

Rethinking Islamic Art (History)? The Potential of Global Art History and the Transcultural Approach

10.30-11.00 Francine Giese (University of Zurich)

The Mudéjar Phenomenon. Contact Zones as Art Historical Challenges

11.00-11.30 Yuka Kadoi (University of Edinburgh)

Does Islamic Art Exist in East Asia? A Critical Note on the State of Asian Art Research

 

Coffee break

 

TOWARDS THE PERIPHERY

Chair: Susana Calvo Capilla (Universidad Complutense Madrid)

12.00-12.30 Fernando Valdés Fernández (Universidad Autónoma Madrid)

El urbanismo islámico occidental y el paradigma al-Andalus – Marruecos

12.30-13.00 Mirjam Shatanawi (Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam / Museum Volkenkunde, Leiden / University of Amsterdam)

Can Indonesian art be Islamic?

13.00-13.30 Eva-Maria Troelenberg and Ted van Loan (Kunsthistorisches Institut – Max Planck Institut Florenz)

A Diasporic Condition? Islamic Art and Architecture Today and the Direction of History

Lunch

Museo Arqueológico Nacional (MAN), Calle de Serrano 13, Sala de Actas

THE WESTERN PERSPECTIVE

Chair: Sergio Vidal Álvarez (Jefe Departamento de Antigüedades Medievales del MAN)

16.00-16.30 Ana Cabrera Lafuente (Marie S.-Curie Fellow / Project no. 703711 “Interwoven”)

Valorando el coleccionismo de arte islámico: revisión y actualización de las denominaciones y contextos en el ámbito de los museos el caso del Victoria & Albert Museum y los tejidos andalusíes

16.30-17.00 Randa Ismail (Université Privée de Manara, Lattaquié)

Au début du troisième millénaire, la quatrième dimension du message culturel diffusé par les musées présentant les collections  islamiques : lecture comparative entre le musée du Louvre et le musée de Pergame

17.00-17.30 Jewell Johnson (University of Sydney)

Re-shaping the Global art space: Ibn Khaldun’s Muqaddimah as Guide

 

18.00-20.00 VISIT OF THE ISLAMIC DEPARTMENT OF THE MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NATIONAL

Sergio Vidal Álvarez (Jefe Departamento de Antigüedades Medievales del MAN)