Modern Iranian Art and Architecture in the Shadow of the Classical
Persian Past
Day 1: Thursday 17 May 2018
Christie Room, John Rylands Library, Deansgate
8.45: Arrival
and Registration
9.10 – 9.15: Welcome
Professor Alan
Williams (Professor of Iranian
Studies, University of Manchester)
9.15 – 9.20: Introduction
Dr Aida Foroutan
(University
of Manchester)
9.20 – 10.00: Keynote Speech Chair: Professor
Alan Williams
Professor Robert Hillenbrand FBA (Professor of Islamic Art History, University of St Andrews, Professor
Emeritus, University of Edinburgh)
‘The
Originality of the Great Mongol Shahnama’
10.00 – 11.35: Panel 1 – Historicism Chair: Professor
Paul Luft
Dr Mina Talaee (Alzahra University)
‘Committed Art: Post-revolutionary
Figurative Sculpture in Iran in the Context of Modernism’
Ms Elizabeth L. Rauh
(University of Michigan)
‘Visual Resurrections: Reproducing
“Classical” Persian Images in 20th-Century Iranian Art’
Dr Saeid Khaghani
(University of Tehran)
‘The Dynamics
of Historicism in Contemporary Iranian Architectural Discourses’
Dr Aban Tahmasebi (The Sapienza
University of Rome)
‘Romantic Architectural Historiography
Linked to Persian Cultural Absolutism’
11.35 –12.00: Tea/Coffee break
12.00 – 13.15: Panel 2 – Identity Chair: Dr
Ilse Sturkenboom
Professor Abbas Daneshvari (California State
University, Los Angeles)
‘The Color of
History in Contemporary Iranian Photography’
Mr Keivan Moussavi-Aghdam (Tehran
University of Art)
‘Society for
the National Heritage and Iranian Modern Identity’
Dr Aida Foroutan
(University
of Manchester)
‘Extension of the Universe on Canvas: Poetry in the Painting of Bobak Etminani’
13.15 – 14.20: Lunch break
In the Atrium
13.15 – 14.15: Collection Encounter: (Group 1: 13.15 – 13.40 -
Group 2: 13.50 – 14.15)
In the Bible
Room
led by Elizabeth Gow (delegates will be divided
into 2 groups: there will be 2 sessions)
The Collection
Encounter will present selected Persian manuscripts
(including miniatures, lacquer bindings and calligraphy)
14.20 – 15.10 Panel 3 – Case Studies Chair: Professor
Ali Ansari
Dr David Hodge
(Art Academy, London)
‘Reformism’s Self-Portrait: Reformism’s
Self-Portrait: Cosmopolitanism, Contemporaneity and Class in Mehraneh Atashi’s
Early Work’
Ms Roberta Marin (Khalili Collection of Islamic Art and the
University of York)
‘The “Traditional Abstract Art” Of
Faramarz Pilaram (1937-1983)’
15.10 –15.30: Tea/Coffee break
15.30 –15.45: Panel 4 – Education Chair: Professor
Alan Williams
Professor David Lomas (Professor
of Art History University of Manchester)
‘Human Flows’
15.45 – 16.15:
Mr Bobak Etminani (Vice-President, the
Association of Iranian Painters)
‘Typology of
Painting and the Five Genes: A Comprehensive Academic Shortcut in Teaching
Drawing and Painting’
16.15
– 17.00: Keynote Speech Chair: Dr
Siavush Randjbar-Daemi
Professor Paul
Luft (Hon.Vice-President of the British
Institute of Persian Studies, formerly Senior Lecturer University of Manchester)
‘Following
the track of Iranian Studies at Manchester’
17:00 End of Day 1
18.45 Conference Dinner (for
Speakers and Chairs)
Christie’s Bistro Located in The Christie
Building, #58 in the Campus Guidance
The Old Quadrangle, University of Manchester, Oxford Road,
Manchester, M13 9PL
Day 2: Friday 18 May 2018
Christie Room, John Rylands Library, Deansgate
9.15 – 10.00 Keynote
Speech Chair: Dr
Aida Foroutan
Dr Hamid Keshmirshekan (London Middle East Institute, SOAS Univ. of London)
‘Challenging
Points of Entry: Modern and Contemporary Art Historiography of Iran Revisited’
10.00 – 11.10: Panel 5 – Method 1 Chair: Dr Siavush Randjbar-Daemi
Mr Hosein Eyalati
(Kaarnamaa Art Magazine)
‘Collective Memories / Selective Interpretations’
Dr Combiz Moussavi-Aghdam (Tehran University of Art)
‘Contemporary
Iranian Art and Its Scholarship: A Critical Review’
Dr Jamal Arabzadeh (Tehran
University of Art)
‘Theory versus Method: The Evolution of
Art History Teaching in Iran’
11.10 – 11.40: Tea/Coffee break
11.40 – 12.55: Panel 6 – Exhibiting Chair: Dr Ilse
Sturkenboom
Dr Nicoletta Torcelli (The French-German cultural channel Arte)
‘Exhibiting Iranian Art: Curatorial
Considerations’
Mr Tim Cornwell (The Art Newspaper, and other publications)
‘The Building of the Collection of the
Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art and its Art’
Ms Chaeri Lee
(Free University and Humboldt University of Berlin)
‘The Politics of Collecting and
Displaying Iranian Coffeehouse Paintings’
12.55 – 13.55: Lunch break
13.55 – 15.10: Panel 7 – Photography & Cinema Chair: Professor
Alan Williams
Dr Anita Hosseini
(University of Hamburg)
‘Public And
Private Spaces Of Emotions: Ashgar Farhadi’s “The Salesman/Forushande” in The
Context of European and Persian Art History’
Ms Agnes Rameder (Catholic Private
University of Linz)
‘The History of Staged Photography in Tehran’
Ms Janet Rady
(Gallery Director and Curator, Independent)
‘Shadi Ghadirian - Nostalgic Revivalist
or Contemporary Creative?’
15.10 – 15.40: Tea/Coffee break
15.40 – 16.30: Panel 8 – Method 2 Chair: Professor
Paul Luft
Ms Dafne Gotink
(University of Amsterdam)
‘Political with a wink: how to read
critical contemporary art from Iran’
Mr Abbas Hosseini (University
of Zanjan)
‘Reading Art Historiography through
Persian Safavid Manuscripts; Approaches and Challenges’
16.30 – 17.30 Final Panel: Professor
Hillenbrand, Professor Luft, and Dr Keshmirshekan
Panel: Plenary Discussion: Concluding Remarks
17.30
End of Conference
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Members of the conference are invited to join us
for an informal dinner
as the English say, ‘Going Dutch’
This
conference is supported by a research grant from the British Institute of
Persian Studies and the Iran Heritage Foundation.
For
more information on BIPS and grant opportunities please see
