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Manuscripts — in a —
Global Context
A Symposium at the J. Paul Getty Museum
April 16–17, 2016
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Above: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Phil Berg Collection (M.71.73.33), www.lacma.org. All other images: J. Paul Getty Museum. Text and design © 2016 J. Paul Getty Trust
SYMPOSIUM
This interdisciplinary symposium will examine artists, patrons, and audiences as agents who desired real, imagined, or exotic representations of and narratives about the world and its peoples. n an attempt to expand the monolithic notion of the period traditionally referred to as the Middle Ages in Europe, this symposium invites dialogue among specialists from across the art historical spectrum of the 12th to 17th centuries to include Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Focusing on manuscripts, this symposium aims to encourage collaborations across traditional geographic and disciplinary boundaries and to foster new dialogues between museums and the academy.
Manuscripts in a Global Context will coincide with a major exhibition at the Getty Museum, Traversing the Globe through Illuminated Manuscripts (January 26–June 26, 2016). Drawn primarily from the Getty’s collection of illuminated manuscripts, with complementary loans from collections across Los Angeles, the exhibition considers how portable objects—like manuscripts, ceramics, textiles, glassworks, gems, and sculptures—contributed to one’s outlook on the world in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the early Americas. For more information on the exhibition, visit www.getty.edu.
Saturday–Sunday, April 16–17, 2016Getty Center, Museum Lecture Hall
Check-in
Welcoming Remarks Timothy Potts, Director, J. Paul Getty Museum Bryan Keene, J. Paul Getty Museum
GLOBAL NARRATIVES Moderated by Elizabeth Morrison, J. Paul Getty Museum
Sussan Babaie, Courtauld Institute of Art “Missionary Effects and Messianic Aspirations: The Pic-ture Bible at the Court of Shah ‘Abbas in Isfahan, Iran” Mark Cruse, Arizona State University
“Illuminating the Silk Road: The Manuscripts of Marco Polo’s Travel Account”
Lunch break and exhibition visit (self-guided)
TRADE AND MATERIALITY Moderated by Christine Sciacca, J. Paul Getty Museum
Sylvie L. Merian, Morgan Library and Museum “Reproducing the Resurrection: From European Prints to Armenian Manuscripts” Dagmar Riedel, Columbia University
“The Islamic Manuscript of the Mind as a Global Commodity” Elizabeth Boone, Tulane University
“New World Peoples within the Global, Sartorial Frame”
Break
A GLOBAL OUTLOOK Moderated by Rheagan Martin, J. Paul Getty Museum
Alka Patel, University of California, Irvine “Stories and Pictures from All the World: South Asian Book Arts of the 12th–16th Centuries” Pamela Patton, Princeton University
“Color, Culture, and the Making of Difference in the Vidal Mayor (Getty MS Ludwig XIV 6)” Jessica Goldberg, University of California, Los Angeles
“Illumination from the Mundane: Producing Everyday Writing in the Medieval Islamic World”
Galleries will be open until 9:00 pm
Suzanne Conklin Akbari is Professor of English and Medieval Studies and Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto.
Sussan Babaie is the Andrew W. Mellon Lecturer in the Arts of Iran and Islam at the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Roland Betancourt is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine.
Suzanne Preston Blier is the Allen Whitehill Clowes Chair of Fine Arts and of African and African-American Studies in the Department of History of Art & Architecture at Harvard University.
Elizabeth Boone is Professor and Chair, History of Art, at Tulane University.
Jill Caskey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Fine Art at the University of Toronto.
Mark Cruse is an Associate Professor of French at Arizona State University.
J. Sören Edgren is the Former Director of the Chinese Rare Books Project at Princeton University.
Helen C. Evans is the Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator of Byzantine Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Jessica Goldberg is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Bindu Gude is Associate Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Sylvie L. Merian is the Reader Services Librarian at the Morgan Library and Museum.
Asa Mittman is an Associate Professor of Art History at California State University, Chico.
Alka Patel is an Associate Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine.
Pamela Patton is the Director of the Index of Christian Art at Princeton University.
Dagmar Riedel is an Associate Research Scholar at the Center for Iranian Studies at Columbia University.
Check-in
Welcoming Remarks
CULTURES IN CONTACT Moderated by Stephanie Schrader, J. Paul Getty Museum
J. Sören Edgren, Princeton University “From Buddhist Illuminated Manuscripts to Printed Sutras in East Asia” Roland Betancourt, University of California, Irvine
“The Exiles of Byzantium: Form and Historiography” Suzanne Conklin Akbari, University of Toronto
“Where is Medieval Ethiopia? Mapping Ethiopic Studies within Medieval Studies”
Lunch break and exhibition visit
THE GLOBAL TURN: ACADEMY AND MUSEUM Panel discussion, moderated by Kristen Collins, J. Paul Getty Museum
Suzanne Preston Blier, Harvard University Asa Mittman, California State University, Chico Jill Caskey, University of Toronto Bindu Gude, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Break
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Helen C. Evans, Metropolitan Museum of Art “Illuminated Manuscripts in an Encyclopedic Museum”
Reception
9:30–10:00
10:00–10:30
Session 1
10:30–12:30
12:30–2:00
Session 2
2:00–3:45
3:45–4:00
Session 3
4:00–6:00
9:30–10:00
10:00–10:30
Session 4
10:30–12:30
12:30–2:00
Session 5 2:00–3:45
3:45–4:00
4:00–5:45
6:00
DAY 1 DAY 2
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
A Medieval Picture Book and its Judeo-Persian Lives: The Shah ‘Abbas Bible in 17th-Century Safavid IranLecture by Sussan Babaie, Courtauld Institute of Art Tuesday, April 19; 7:00 p.m. Free; advance ticket required. Getty Center, Museum Lecture Hall
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