Lectures and conferences
Invited lectures and formal conference presentations (2019-)
‘(Re)Inventing ethnonational cultural heritage: national museums across the Persian Gulf’, Museumisation in Central Europe: Opportunities and Challenges, ELTE and the Museum of Ethnography, 7-9 June 2023.
‘What Timur Brought to the Mediterranean and Black Seas: “Mamluk” carpets between Asia and Europe’, Productions and Exchanges: New Research on the History of Syrian-Egyptian Arts in the 15th and Early 16th Centuries, Institut des Civilisations, 22-23 May 2023.
‘Iconism in the medieval East Islamic world: the power of figurative representation under the Seljuqs’, Art and Power in Medieval Societies: Censorship, Propaganda and Public Service in the Eastern Mediterranean from Late Antiquity to the Ottoman Era, Institute for Advanced Study / Central European University (IAS-CEU), Budapest, 19-20 May 2023.
‘Displaying Muslim cultural heritage: A 20-year retrospect’, Institute for Advanced Study / Central European University (IAS-CEU), Budapest, 12 October 2022.
‘Framing Persian bodies: the Friday Mosque of Isfahan, ca. 1900-1925’, Dans l’objectif d’Henry Viollet: Les monuments islamiques à travers un fonds d’archive inexploré (1904-1913), Bibliothèque Universitaire de Langues et Civilisations (BULAC), 23-24 June 2022.
‘Ex Libris Strzygowski: How His Theory of World Arts Was Formulated’, Influence of the Vienna School of Art History III: Origins, Modifications and Influences of Its Theoretical Concepts, Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, 19-20 April 2023.
‘Fashioning Eurasia: the art of blue textiles’, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, 9 September 2022 (in association with the Austrian Society for Textile Art Research [TKF]).
‘The mobility of Persian artefacts: the Sanguszko Carpet in motion’, British Institute of Persian Studies Seminar Series, British Academy, 20 July 2022.
‘Ayoub Rabenou: a Persian-Jewish tastemaker in the interwar period’, Jewish Collectors and Patterns of Taste, Sorbonne Université and Musée Nissim de Camodo, 27-29 June 2022.
‘From Vienna to New York: The Emperor’s Carpet in transit’, Persian Art in Vienna: The Shifting of Objects, Images and Ideas in Early 20th Century Central Europe, Department of Art History, University of Vienna, 29-30 October 2021.
‘The Ideals of the East: Asian art and the crisis of visual expression across the globe, ca.
1900’, Collecting Asian Art in Prague: Cultural Politics and Transcontinental Networks in 20th-century Central Europe, National Gallery Prague, 17-18 June 2021.
‘The Power of Duplication: Medieval Persian Painting through Photographs, ca. 1890- 1920’, Bilderfahrzeuge Lecture Series: ‘Not a Copy, Warburg Institute, London, 28 April 2021.
‘Encompassing the Eastern Periphery of the Muslim World’, The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art, 8th Biennial Hamad Bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art, Doha, 10-11 November 2019.
‘Carpets on the move: modern trajectories of Persian woven treasures’, Klosterkirche Kulturzentrum, Traunstein, 13 September 2019 (in association with the International Conference on Oriental Carpets [ICOC] and the Austrian Society for Textile Art Research [TKF]).
‘Ex Libris Demotte: The Great Mongol Shahhama and its provenance’, 9th European Conference of Iranian Studies, Berlin, 9-13 September 2019.
‘Japan’s modern mosques’, 15th Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society, ELTE, Budapest, 6-7 July 2019.
‘Revisiting Buddhism in Ilkhanid Iran: archaeology, toponymy and visual culture’, The Mongols and Religions, Institute of Iranian Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 16-17 May 2019.
‘East meets West, West meets East: critical reassessments of Persian art scholarship at the Vienna School of Art History’, Influence of the Vienna School of Art History, Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, 4-5 April 2019.
Workshops
Persian Art: The Shifting Of Objects, Images and Ideas in Early 20th Century Central Europe
October 29th - 30th, 2021
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