Day 1: 3 September 2004
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9.00 - 9.30
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Registration
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9.30 - 9.45 |
Opening Remarks
- Director of the Chester Beatty Library
- Farhad Hakimzadeh
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9.45 - 12.45 |
Session 1: Trade and Cultural and
Technical Exchange
- Barry Flood: Out of
India? Kashmir, Khurasan and the Origins of Islamic Inlaid Metalwork
- Yuka Kadoi: Mirrors
- With Special Reference to the Sino-Iranian Relationship During the
Twelfth and Fourteenth Centuries
- Hamid Atighetchi:
Indian and Persian Metalwork in the 16th Century
- Tea / Coffee (11.15 - 11.45)
- Elias Khamis: The Persian Metalwork in the
Tiberias Hoard
- Mathew Ponting:
Sefidruy Goes West - Chemical Analysis
of Fatimid Metalwork from Spain, Turkey and Palestine
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12.45 - 13.45
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Lunch
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13.45
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16.15 |
Session 2: Metal Technology -
Steel and Copper Alloys
- Brian Gilmour: Iron and Steel in Early
Islamic Iran and Before - The Contribution of Ya‘qub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi
to Revealing this Technology
- Janet Lang & Paul Craddock: Crucible
Steel-Bright Steel
- Tea / Coffee (14.45 - 15.15)
- Susan La Niece: Brass and Bronze in Islamic
Iran
- Ulrike Al-Khamis & Katherine Eremin:
The Ugly Duckling of Iranian Metalwork - Initial
Remarks on Copper Alloy Metalwork from 19th Century Iran
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Day 2: 4 September
2004
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9.30
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11.00 |
Session 3: Regional Schools
- Rachel Ward: The Penbox by Mahmud ibn
Sunqur in the British Museum
- Basak Burcu Tekin:
The Bronze Doorknockers of the Shrine Complex of Hodja Ahmad Yasawi as
an Iconographical and Ornamental Component
- Doris Behrens-Abouseilf:
Veneto-Saracenic Metalware - Iranian
or Mamluk Provenance?
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11.00 - 11.30
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Tea / Coffee
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11.30
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14.00 |
Session 4: Manuscripts and
Metalwork
- Teresa Fitzherbert:
Metalwork and Miniature Painting in
Fourteenth Century Iran
- Elaine Wright:
The Use of Metals in Manuscripts
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12.30 - 14.00
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Lunch
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14.00
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16.00 |
Session 5: Patrons and Craftsmen
- Ruba Kana’an: Capital, Production and Patronage of Inlaid Metalwork
- The Medieval Legal Framework
- Luke Treadwell: Signed Coin Dies of the
3rd and 4th Century A.H. - Where, When and Why?
- Tea / Coffee (15.00 - 15.30)
- Raisa I. Amirbekyan: Triumph of Imitation -
Iranian Metal Engraving Between Tradition and Present Time. The
Contemporary Iranian Master Rajab ‘Ali Raie
- Sylvia Auld: From
Pattern to Production - The Case of Three Unfinished Trays
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16.30
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16.45 |
Concluding Discussion
- James Allan: The
Current State of Metalwork Studies
- Final questions
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