The Islamic Art and Artifact Workshop
Schedule of
Events
2006–2007
Fall Quarter
This workshop meets in PICK 218 at 4:00 p.m., unless
otherwise specified.
¥ Monday,
October 9
Choukri Heddouchi,
Ph.D. Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
ÒMaghribi
CoinsÓ
¥
Monday, October 30
Rana Mikati,
Ph.D. Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
ÒBaalbek
Mint Imperial Image Fulžs from the Beirut Excavations: An Archaeological and
Historical InterpretationÓ
¥
Monday, November 6
Professor John Woods, University of Chicago
ÒNumismatics
for HistoriansÓ
¥
Monday, November 20
Alison Whyte,
Assistant Conservator, Oriental Institute Museum, University of Chicago
ÒArt
Conservation and Archaeological MaterialsÓ
¥
Monday, November 27
Warren Schultz,
Associate Professor, DePaul University
ÒNumismatics:
The Examination of a Coin Collection in Light of Methodological ProblemsÓ
Winter Quarter
¥
Monday, January 8
Robert Tate,
Ph.D. Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
ÒLandscape
Archaeology and Pilgrimage: A Transportation Study of the SinaiÓ
¥
Monday, January 22
Katie L. Johnson,
Ph.D. Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
ÒOttoman
Archaeology in Southern AlbaniaÓ
¥
Monday, February 5
Tanya Treptow,
Ph.D. Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
ÒIslamic
Archaeology in MuseumsÓ
¥
Monday, February 12
Michael Jennings, Ph.D. Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
ÒArchaeology
of Islamic SicilyÓ
¥
Tuesday, February 27 (Cochrane-Woods Art Center Room 152, 4:30 p.m.)
Dr. Alan Walmsley,
Professor of Islamic Archaeology and Art, Carsten Niebuhr Institute, University
of Copenhagen, Denmark & 2006–2007 Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks
ÒEconomy
and Society in 7th- and 8th-century Syria: Recent
Archaeological Perspectives on Continuity and ChangeÓ
Co-sponsored
with the Workshop on Late Antiquity and Byzantium
¥
Monday, March 5
Lindsay Decarlo,
Ph.D. Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
ÒArchaeometry
and Islamic ArchaeologyÓ
Spring Quarter
¥
Tuesday, April 17 (Oriental Institute, Room 210, 4:30 p.m.)
Katherine Strange Burke, Ph.D. Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
ÒThe
Thrill and Tedium of Working in Egyptian MuseumsÓ
¥
Monday, May 7
Donald Whitcomb,
University of Chicago
ÒA
Trip to Saudi Arabia: Qaryat al-Fau (Re-)VisitedÓ
¥
Friday, May 11
Panel
at the 22nd Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference
ÒThe
Uses of History in Islamic ArchaeologyÓ
Moderator: Asa Eger,
Ph.D. Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
¥ Fanny Bessard,
University of Lyon and Ecole Practique des Hautes Etudes, Paris
ÒFoundations
of Umayyad and Early Abbasid Economy: Jerash, a Case in PointÓ
¥ Rana Mikati,
Ph.D. Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
ÒMaster
and Servant? The Role of a Historical Islamic ArchaeologyÓ
¥ Katie L. Johnson, Ph.D. Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
ÒHistory
and Archaeology in Ottoman StudiesÓ
¥
Monday, May 21
Asa Eger, Ph.D.
Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
ÒAn
Introduction to the Theoretical Considerations of Archaeology in the ThughurÓ
2005–2006
Fall Quarter
¥ October
17, 2005
Asa Eger, Ph.D.
Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
ÒIn
Search of Hisn al-Tinat: Recent Results along the Byzantine-Islamic Coastal
FrontierÓ
¥
November 10, 2005
Caroline Williams,
Independent Scholar
ÒByzantine/Coptic
Influences in the Islamic Arts of EgyptÓ
¥
November 21, 2005
Professor Persis Berlekamp, University of Chicago
ÒImaging
and Imagining Chinese Medicine in Ilkhanid TabrizÓ
Co-sponsored
with the Middle East History and Theory Workshop
¥
November 28, 2005
Professor Robert Dankoff, University of Chicago
ÒInterpreting
an Image of Yusuf and ZulaikhaÓ
Winter Quarter
¥
January 9, 2006
Katie L. Johnson,
Ph.D. Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
ÒOttoman
Egypt in the 19th Century: A Collection from the Field MuseumÓ
¥
January 23, 2006
Donald Whitcomb,
University of Chicago
ÒArchaeological
Perspectives on the Origin of the MosqueÓ
¥
February 7, 2006
Carrie Hritz,
Ph.D.
ÒThe
Islamic Landscape of MesopotamiaÓ
Dan Mahoney,
Ph.D. Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
ÒMesopotamian
Landscapes of Power: An Assessment of the Urban Political Institutions and
Dynamics in the Diyala Basin during the Early Dynastic and Early Abbasid
PeriodsÓ
¥
February 20, 2006
Choukri Heddouchi,
Ph.D. Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
ÒIslamic
Archaeology and Monuments in MoroccoÓ
¥ March
6, 2006
Lindsay Decarlo,
Ph.D. Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
ÒArtifacts
and Trade in al-Baleed: A Medieval Arabian Port CityÓ
¥ March
10, 2006
Oya Pancaroglu
ÒIn
the Market for Love? A Text-Image Question from the 13th Century
Illustrated Manuscript of Varqa and GulshahÓ
Spring Quarter
¥ March 31,
2006
Kareemullah Lashari
ÒBhanboreÕs
Role in Medieval Period Trade in the Indian OceanÓ
¥ May
12, 2006
Panel
at the 21st Annual Middle East History and Theory Conference
ÒThe
Use of Numismatics in Islamic History and ArchaeologyÓ
Moderator: Professor John
Woods, University of Chicago
¥ Michael Bates,
Curator Emeritus of Islamic Coins, The American Numismatics Society
ÒWho
Was Named on Abbasid Coins, and Why?Ó
¥ Robert Haug,
Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan
ÒProvincial
Minting and Provincial History: The Central Asian Mints of Panjhir and
Andabarah in the Late 3rd/9th CenturyÓ
¥ Professor Warren Schultz, Depaul University
ÒBig
Problems and Little Coins: The Limits of Numismatic Evidence and the Case of
Mamluk Syrian FulusÓ
¥ Choukri Heddouchi, Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago
ÒStages
in Die-Preparation of Sijilmassa CoinsÓ
¥ May
22, 2007
Rana Mikati,
Ph.D. Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
ÒAn
Islamic Maritime Frontier? Beirut as Ribat of DamascusÓ
Discussants: Ian Straughn,
Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, and Asa
Eger, Ph.D. Student, Department of Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations