Image, Object and Context
One-day informal workshop on the relevance the relationship between images and texts; on the use of visual sources for historical research and on the relevance of literary sources for reflecting on images and their contexts
SOAS, Room B211
Friday 26 October 2007, 10 am-4.30 pm
If you want to attend, please contact Nadeem Omar notarar@gmail.com
Programme
Morning
10.00 welcome
10.10-10.40 Robert Skelton, ‘Sultanate Painting After the Sultanate Period’
10.40-11.10 Laura E. Parodi, ‘Contextualising an Early Mughal Painting: Humayun and Hindal in a Landscape’
11.10-11.30 Discussion
11.30-11.50 Coffee Break
11.50-12.20 Susan Stronge, ‘Minto Album and Its Problems'
12.20-12.50 Stefano Pello, 'The Portrait and Its Double in Persian Sources'
12.50-1.10 Discussion
1.10-2.00 Lunch Break
Afternoon
2.00-4.30 Open session on the historical reading of select images
