IMC 2004: Sessions
Session 1118: Islamic Art across the Mediterranean - Conservation, Interpretation, Presentation, I: Conservation and Restoration in Morocco, Spain and Syria
Wednesday 14 July 2004, 11.15-12.45
Sponsor: | Society for the Medieval Mediterranean |
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Organiser: | Gerald Crowson, Society for the Medieval Mediterranean, Norwich |
Moderator/Chair: | Dionisius A. Agius, Department of Arabic & Middle Eastern Studies, University of Leeds |
Paper 1118-a | From Fez, a UNESCO World Heritage City, to Islamic Rural Structures: The New Ways of Conservation and Archaeology in Morocco (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Architecture - General, Islamic & Arabic Studies |
Paper 1118-b | Restoring the Heritage of Al-Andalus: From Restoration to Virtual Reconstruction (Language: English) Index terms: Archaeology - General, Architecture - General, Islamic & Arabic Studies |
Paper 1118-c | The Reconstruction of Jewish Jerusalem after 1967 from a Heritage and Political Perspective (Language: English) |
Abstract | Title, moderator and details of papers to be confirmed: 2 Restoring the heritage of Al-Andalus, speaker tba (Antonio Almagro, CSIC Granada, has been invited). 3 Conservation and restoration of the Islamic monuments of Syria: the Middle East perspective. II 5 Paper on a theme related to 4, speaker tba. 6 Paper by Godfrey Goodwin. Professor Goodwin has agreed to speak (no topic decided) but he is in frail health. His participation is something I would like to discuss with him further and decide later in the year, if possible. III 8 “Like the light of the sun”: colour, pattern and symbol in Islamic lustre tiles of the Middle East and North Africa. (Provisional title). 9 The Ottoman impact on the dress and textiles of Tunisia and Morocco. IV 3 speakers have been e-mailed (Profs. Gonul Oney, Rahmi Unal, Gonul Evyapan), but no response yet. This session is being organised in collaboration with Inci Turkoglu, who has participated in previous IMCs. 10 speaker tba 13 The Orient displayed: the presentation of Islam in British Museums. 14 Presenting Islamic art to a Western audience: the museum’s challenge. 15 Re-defining the museum: MWNF and the exhibition cycle “Islamic Art in the Mediterranean”. |