Seeing Isfahan: Perspectives on the Safavid Image
Friday, 27 May – Saturday, 28 May 2022 
Designed to enhance the current exhibition at the Chester Beatty, the in-person academic conference Seeing Isfahan, Perspectives on the Safavid Image will examine an illuminating cross-section of visual and intellectual culture in Isfahan. A programme of twelve speakers will present new research that asks how Safavid identity was visualised in early modern Iran.
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This conference is presented by Dr Moya Carey (Chester Beatty) and Dr Anna McSweeney (TCD). Organised by the Chester Beatty and Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute. Held in association with the Chester Beatty exhibition Meeting in Isfahan: Vision and Exchange in Safavid Iran
Friday 27 May, Trinity Long Room Hub
10:00-11:00
KEYNOTE: Massumeh Farhad, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Towards a New Pictorial Language: Painting and Patronage in Seventeenth-Century Iran
(The keynote will be available live online and in-person)
11:00-11:20 Coffee
Session 1: New Sensations: Taste and Vision
11:20-12:00 | Sussan Babaie. The Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
Art, food, and the emergence of a cuisine
12:00-12:40 | Farshid Emami, Rice University
Space, Time, and Vision in Late Safavid Paintings
12:40-13:40 Break for lunch
Session 2: Translations: Occult Science, Antiquity, and Language
13:40-14:20 | Matthew Melvin-Koushki, University of South Carolina
Philosophy, Amuletry, and Talismanic Cities: Isfahan as Timurid-Safavid Occult Capital
14:20-15:00 | Lindsay Allen, King’s College London
The Dimensions of Antiquity in Safavid Iran
15:00-15:40 | Ladan Niayesh, Université Paris Cité
The Lives and Times of Thomas Herbert’s Persian Glossary (1634, 1638, 1664)
15:40-16:00 Tea
Session 3: Burning and Melting: Binding, Imitation, and Gender
16:00-16:40 | Kristine Rose-Beers ACR, Head of Conservation, Chester Beatty
Pressure Tooled and Soft Textile: Diverse Bindings from a Cosmopolitan City
16:40-17:20 | Michael Chagnon, Curator, Aga Khan Museum; Assistant Professor (status-only), Department of Art History, University of Toronto
CBL T 433: A Treasury of Innovation
17:20-18:00 | Negar Habibi, University of Geneva
Fifty Shades of Womanhood: Female representations in Safavid Isfahan
Saturday 28 May, TCD Long Room Hub
09:45-10:00 Coffee
Session 4: City Careers: Painters and Patronage Options in Isfahan
10:00-10:40 | Moya Carey, Curator of Islamic Collections, Chester Beatty
Reza `Abbasi’s narrative work in the Book of Kings (CBL Per 277)
10:40-11:20 | Quentin Arnoux, University of Geneva
Searching for patrons and inspiration: Mu`in Musavvir and his artistic journey in the streets of Isfahan
11:20-12:00 | Amy Landau, Fowler Museum, UCLA
Muhammad Zaman and Technologies of the Image
12:00-12:30 Round Table
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Campus Location: Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute
Accessibility: Yes
Room: Neill Lecture Theatre
Research Theme: Creative Arts Practice, Manuscript, Book and Print Culture
Event Category: Alumni, Arts and Culture, Conferences, Exhibits, Lectures and Seminars, Public, Special events
Type of Event: One-time event
Audience: Researchers, Undergrad, Postgrad, Alumni, Faculty & Staff, Public
Cost: Free (but registration is essential)
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