LECTURE
Fifty Shades of Womanhood: Female representations in Safavid Isfahan
Negar Habibi
27 May 2022, 17:20-18:00
The Trinity Long Room Hub, Arts and Humanities Research Institute, Dublin
Negar Habibi will participate at the in-person academic conference “Seeing Isfahan: Perspectives on the Safavid Image” will examine an illuminating cross-section of visual and intellectual culture in Isfahan. Organized by the Chester Beatty and Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute, it is held in association with the Chester Beatty exhibition Meeting in Isfahan: Vision and Exchange in Safavid Iran. A programme of twelve speakers will present new research that asks how Safavid identity was visualised in early modern Iran.
To register and for more information: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/seeing-isfahan-perspectives-on-the-safavid-image-tickets-333831959377
Program:
10:00-11:00
KEYNOTE: Massumeh Farhad, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (Available live online and in-person)
Towards a New Pictorial Language: Painting and Patronage in Seventeenth-Century Iran
(The keynote will be available live online and in-person)
11:00-11:20 Coffee
Session 1: New Sensations: Taste and Vision
11:20-12:00 | Sussan Babaie. The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
Art, food, and the emergence of a cuisine
12:00-12:40 | Farshid Emami, Rice University
Space, Time, and Vision in Late Safavid Paintings
12:40-13:40 Break for lunch
Session 2: Translations: Occult Science, Antiquity, and Language
13:40-14:20 | Matthew Melvin-Koushki, University of South Carolina
Philosophy, Amuletry, and Talismanic Cities: Isfahan as Timurid-Safavid Occult Capital
14:20-15:00 | Lindsay Allen, King’s College London
The Dimensions of Antiquity in Safavid Iran
15:00-15:40 | Ladan Niayesh, Université Paris Cité
The Lives and Times of Thomas Herbert’s Persian Glossary (1634, 1638, 1664)
15:40-16:00 Tea
Session 3: Burning and Melting: Binding, Imitation, and Gender
16:00-16:40 | Kristine Rose-Beers ACR, Head of Conservation, Chester BeattyPressure Tooled and Soft Textile: Diverse Bindings from a Cosmopolitan City
16:40-17:20 | Michael Chagnon, Curator, Aga Khan Museum; Assistant Professor (status-only), Department of Art History, University of TorontoCBL T 433: A Treasury of Innovation
17:20-18:00 | Negar Habibi, University of GenevaFifty Shades of Womanhood: Female representations in Safavid Isfahan
Saturday 28 May, TCD Long Room Hub
09:45-10:00 Coffee
Session 4: City Careers: Painters and Patronage Options in Isfahan
10:00-10:40 | Moya Carey, Curator of Islamic Collections, Chester Beatty
Reza `Abbasi’s narrative work in the Book of Kings (CBL Per 277)
10:40-11:20 | Quentin Arnoux, University of Geneva
Searching for patrons and inspiration: Mu`in Musavvir and his artistic journey in the streets of Isfahan
11:20-12:00 | Amy Landau, Fowler Museum, UCLA
Muhammad Zaman and Technologies of the Image
12:00-12:30 Round Table