public and scholarly events

The Jami Masjid of Firuzabad, early fifteenth century, Firuzabad, Karnataka, India. © Peyvand Firouzeh

  • (Session I & Session II)

    Sessions co-organized by Nancy Um (Getty Research Institute), Peyvand Firouzeh (University of Sydney), and Pauline Monginot (Institut national d’Histoire de l’art at the 36th Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA) World Congress: Matter/Materiality, Centre de Congrès de Lyon, 23-28 June 2024.

  • Symposium co-organized by Drisana Misra (Cornell University), John Gagné (University of Sydney), and Peyvand Firouzeh (University of Sydney), co-sponsored by the Japanese Studies Association of Australia and the Medieval and Early Modern Centre, Vere Gordon Childe Centre Boardroom, Madsen Building (F09), University of Sydney, 27 April 2024.

  • Panel organized by Peyvand Firouzeh at the Annual Conference of The Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ), Griffith University, Gold Coast, 6-8 December 2023.

Public and Scholarly Events

Talks by Members

  • 14 August
    Peyvand Firouzeh, ‘A Book Unbound: The Visual Language of an African Qur’an,’ Rare Bites lecture series, Rare Books and Special Collections, Fisher Library, University of Sydney.

    20 June
    Peyvand Firouzeh, ‘Speaking Carpets and Severed Heads,’ workshop presentation at the Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon.

    2 May
    Peyvand Firouzeh, ‘Intermedial Objects as Narrators: Oceanic Journeys of Coco-de-mer Kashkuls,’ Arts of the Indian Ocean Conference, Toronto.

    27 April
    Peyvand Firouzeh, ‘Thinking with Coconuts,’ ‘Early Modern Japan and the Indo-Pacific: Trans-Oceanic Objects, Mobility, and Exchange,’ Symposium at the Medieval and Early Modern Centre, University of Sydney.

    19 April
    Peyvand Firouzeh, ‘The Indian Ocean Travels of the Kashkul,’ Association of Iranica in Australasia.

  • 7 December
    Miranda Luo, ‘Illustrated Biographies and Genealogies: Ilkhanid Portraits of Chinese Emperors,’ Presentation at AAANZ conference, Griffith University, Gold Coast.

    11 October
    Peyvand Firouzeh, ‘Coco-de-Mer Kashkuls, Materiality, and Oceanic Journeys,’ Silsila Center for Material Histories, New York University.

    14 September
    Peyvand Firouzeh, ‘Distance and Metaphor, Re-imagining the Ka‘ba in Deccan India’, Art History Research Seminar, the University of Sydney.