The Mercantile Effect: On art and exchange in the Islamicate world during 17th - 18th centuries, a conference by the Gingko Library, will be held from 18 to 19 November 2016 in Istanbul. The Gingko Library is a project promoting dialogue with the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) through education, information, an annual conference and publishing programme. It aims to publish one hundred books over the next ten years that present the latest work in all languages and across the full range of humanities, social sciences and sciences relating to the MENA region.
The Gingko conferences are designed to complement the Gingko Library. The annual Gingko Library Conference, for scholars, public figures and members of the wider public who are engaged with issues concerning the MENA region, are designed to foster dialogue between people of different ethnicities and cultures, and promote mutual understanding based upon shared interests and concerns. Each year the conference will take as its base one of the subject areas in which the Gingko Library publishes.
The development of mercantile networks and global trade routes in the early modern period relied on the emergence of new institutional and cultural methods of exchange. This conference invites papers that take a trans-disciplinary approach, looking at the specifics of art objects and ideas. The focus will be on those regions where Islam was the religion of the majority and informed the cultural position, but did not necessarily impose a religious mandate for action in the making and exchange of goods.
Interested?
View more information on the call for papers. Abstracts for papers should be submitted by 5 February 2016.
Speakers will be given 15 to 20 minutes to present their papers at the conference. The presentations and discussions will be recorded and live-streamed to an audience at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and online. The Courtauld Institute of Art is a leading centre for the study of art history, conservation and curating.
Selected papers delivered at the conference will be published together in a volume by the Gingko Library, following peer review. Speakers at the conference may also develop their papers into book-length proposals to be submitted to the Gingko Library.
Key dates:
5 February 2016: Deadline for submission of abstracts and panel proposals
15 April 2016: Accepted papers and panels announced
16 September 2016: Deadline for paper submission
18 to 19 November 2016: conference dates
20 January 2017: Deadline for submission of revised papers for peer-review
and inclusion in conference publication
Roughly Q417: Publication of conference proceedings
The conference will include a gala reception on the evening of 17 November, during which the first title to be published in the Gingko Library Art Series, Art, Trade, and Culture in the Near East and India: From the Fatimids to the Mughals, will be launched.
The Gingko conferences are designed to complement the Gingko Library. The annual Gingko Library Conference, for scholars, public figures and members of the wider public who are engaged with issues concerning the MENA region, are designed to foster dialogue between people of different ethnicities and cultures, and promote mutual understanding based upon shared interests and concerns. Each year the conference will take as its base one of the subject areas in which the Gingko Library publishes.
The development of mercantile networks and global trade routes in the early modern period relied on the emergence of new institutional and cultural methods of exchange. This conference invites papers that take a trans-disciplinary approach, looking at the specifics of art objects and ideas. The focus will be on those regions where Islam was the religion of the majority and informed the cultural position, but did not necessarily impose a religious mandate for action in the making and exchange of goods.
Interested?
View more information on the call for papers. Abstracts for papers should be submitted by 5 February 2016.
Speakers will be given 15 to 20 minutes to present their papers at the conference. The presentations and discussions will be recorded and live-streamed to an audience at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and online. The Courtauld Institute of Art is a leading centre for the study of art history, conservation and curating.
Selected papers delivered at the conference will be published together in a volume by the Gingko Library, following peer review. Speakers at the conference may also develop their papers into book-length proposals to be submitted to the Gingko Library.
Key dates:
5 February 2016: Deadline for submission of abstracts and panel proposals
15 April 2016: Accepted papers and panels announced
16 September 2016: Deadline for paper submission
18 to 19 November 2016: conference dates
20 January 2017: Deadline for submission of revised papers for peer-review
and inclusion in conference publication
Roughly Q417: Publication of conference proceedings
The conference will include a gala reception on the evening of 17 November, during which the first title to be published in the Gingko Library Art Series, Art, Trade, and Culture in the Near East and India: From the Fatimids to the Mughals, will be launched.
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