[Discussion] CONF./CFP- The Art & Material Culture of Iranian Shiism, July 2006, U. of Oxford

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

CONF./CFP- The Art & Material Culture of Iranian Shiism, July 2006, U of
Oxford

July 7-8, 2006: The Art and Material Culture of Iranian Shiism
Maison Fran=E7aise d'Oxford, Oxford, U.K

Despite the numerous studies of Iranian art and material culture,
covering architecture, object studies, flat art and photography, very
little work has been published on the subject of Shiite art per se. This
interdisciplinary conference aims to address this problem by bringing
together historians, art historians, numismatists, anthropologists and
folklorists, in order to try and identify what is specifically Shiite in
the art and material culture of Iran. The conference will cover Iran
from earliest Islamic times until the 21st century, but expects to focus
on four main periods, Safavid, Qajar, Pahlavi and post-Revolutionary
Iran. It will also include Iranian Shiism as it has spread to other
areas of the Islamic world, in particular India and East Africa.

Call for papers: titles of papers and abstracts should be sent to
Professor James Allan at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford OX1 2PH, UK, or to
Pedram Khosronejad pedram.khosronejad@orinst.ox.ac.uk

The deadline for submission of abstracts is July 1, 2005

Pedram Khosronejad
Associated Member of Sub-Faculty of Near & Middle Eastern Studies
Oriental Institute
University of Oxford
Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE
United Kingdom
Tel: + 44 (0) 08701200870-24109
Fax: + 44 (0) 1865274225



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