Dr. Mirjam Brusius
Friday April 4, 2014
Chair: Jason Ur (Harvard University)
2.00 Introduction, Mirjam Brusius (Harvard University)
2.30 Heritage and Museums
Alexander Nagel (Smithonian Institution): The Order of Things According to Washington DC: Reading Middle Eastern Materials in the Smithsonian Institution
Ian Straughn (Brown University): On Heritage Crusades and other Cultural Rescue Missions in the Middle East
3.30 Coffee break
4.00 Melania Savino (KHI Florenz): Ancient Near Eastern Antiquities in the Italian Museums: Travels, Collections, Displays
4.30 In discussion: section participants with Irene Winter (commentator, Harvard University) and Eleanor Robson (University College London)
6.00 closure
Saturday April 5, 2014
Chair: Mirjam Brusius
9.00 Ruptures and Turning points
Avinoam Shalem (Columbia University): Troubling Monochronic Time: Revisiting the Myth of the ‘Origin’ of Islamic art
Katharine Park (Harvard University): Teaching and Writing across Regional Boundaries: a History of Arabic and Latin Science
10.00 Coffee break
10.30 In discussion: section participants with Roy Mottahedeh and Chad Kia (Harvard University)
12.00 lunch (for speakers)
1.00 Empire and Knowledge
Erin Hyde Nolan (Boston University): Ottomans Abroad. The Translation and Circulation of Nineteenth-Century Portrait Photography from Istanbul to Europe and the United States
Daniela Helbig (University of Sydney): Whose Wonderland? Aviation and Aerial Archaeology in Syria and Lebanon under the French Mandate
2.00 In discussion: section participants with Marwa Elshakry (commentator, Columbia University) and Adam Mestyan (Harvard University). Closure 3.30.