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SUMMARY:Word\, Ink\, Gold\, and Paper: An Exploration of the Art of Illumination
DESCRIPTION:Illumination artist Behnaz Karjoo explores Islamic illumination – or tazhib – in a brief lecture followed by a participatory workshop.\n\n\nWolf Humanities Center • University of Pennsylvania \n2024–2025 FORUM ON KEYWORDS \nWord\, Ink\, Gold\, and Paper\nAn Exploration of the Art of Illumination\nIllumination artist Behnaz Karjoo will explore the evolution of Islamic illumination\, or tazhib\, and its role in manuscript decoration\, providing an overview of the traditional tools and materials involved. Visual images of illuminated manuscripts\, along with the tools and materials\, will illustrate the techniques involved in tazhib\, highlighting the precision and artistry. \nFollowing her lecture\, Karjoo will host a hands-on workshop\, inviting participants to delve into the basic techniques of Islamic illumination and to learn how to paint and outline with fine brushes. Using imitation gold and gouache\, they will paint a small design and bring it to life through traditional methods. By closely engaging with the artistry of tazhib in this session\, participants will deepen their understanding and appreciation of this intricate art. Space is limited for the workshop\, register early! \nPresented in collaboration with Penn’s Forum for Global Islamic Studies. Cosponsored by the Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts and the Ibn Sina Fund. \nMore information: https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/karjoo \n––––––Before and after Behnaz Karjoo’s lecture and workshop\, view illuminated manuscripts from Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts on display in the Lea Library!11:00–11:45am: Lecture1:00–3:00pm: Workshop (space is limited)–––––– \nBorn in Tehran\, Iran\, Behnaz Karjoo moved to the United States at a young age\, where she developed an interest in art. Her creative pursuits took a serious turn later in her life\, when she started to study jewelry design and photography at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Inspired by her early memories of Iranian mosque architecture\, illumination\, and calligraphy\, she soon pursued training in the classical Islamic arts. Under the mentorship of Mujgan Baskoylu\, a distinguished master in Turkish illumination\, miniature painting\, and paper cutting\, Behnaz began her study of illumination (tazhib) in 2011. Her dedication led her works to be exhibited worldwide\, and in 2016\, she earned her ijazet\, a certificate of mastery in illumination. Expanding her artistic repertoire\, Behnaz pursued the study of miniature painting in 2019\, followed by an exploration of square kufic calligraphy in 2021. These continuous pursuits exemplify her commitment to enriching her knowledge and skill set within the realm of Islamic arts. Behnaz is an active participant in the New York Islamic Arts collective\, founded by Baskoylu\, which is dedicated to preserving and promoting classical Islamic arts in the United States. In her artistic pursuits\, Behnaz holds the belief that while classical arts\, including illumination\, have a timeless foundation\, their potential for evolution and growth is boundless. She continually strives to present these art forms in innovative ways\, embracing experimentation with diverse materials\, colors\, compositions\, and designs. \n––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– \nThis event is free and open to the public. Registration is required for both the lecture and the workshop. Space is limited for the workshop\, register early! \nThe Wolf Humanities Center values inclusivity and we aim to create a welcoming environment for people of all backgrounds. Please feel free to note any accessibility needs or concerns in your registration\, or connect with us by email (wolfhumanities@upenn.edu) or phone (215.573.8280).
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/word-ink-gold-and-paper-an-exploration-of-the-art-of-illumination/
LOCATION:Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts\, Van Pelt Library\, 3420 Walnut St\, 6th Floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Paradox of Hunger Strikes
DESCRIPTION:Historian Nayan Shah explores the visceral ways that hunger strikes communicate through media and political movements.\n\n\nWolf Humanities Center • University of Pennsylvania \n2024–2025 FORUM ON KEYWORDS \nThe Paradox of Hunger Strikes\nThe talk considers the keyword “hunger strike” and the historical\, social\, and political conditions that motivate the rise and transformations of this puzzling and persistent bodily defiance in the 20th and 21st centuries. Investigating contexts from South Africa\, India\, Ireland\, the United States\, and Iran\, historian Nayan Shah explores the visceral ways that hunger striking communicates through media and political movements\, and how it can turn a personal agony into a call for collective action. \nCosponsored by The Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy\, the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC)\, and the Department of History. \nNayan Shah is a historian whose books uncover how people struggle with incarceration\, migration\, and illness in the United States and across the globe. His latest book\, Refusal to Eat: A Century of Prison Hunger Strikes (University of California Press\, 2022)\, is the first global history of hunger strikes as a tactic in prisons\, conflicts\, and protest movements. He also wrote Contagious Divides: Epidemics and Race in San Francisco’s Chinatown (2001) and Stranger Intimacy: Contesting Race\, Sexuality and the Law in the North American West (2001). Shah is Professor of American Studies & Ethnicity and History at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. This year he is L.A. Times‘ Distinguished Fellow at the Huntington Library and Research Center. \nMore information: https://wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/events/shah \n––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– \nThis event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. \nThe Wolf Humanities Center values inclusivity and we aim to create a welcoming environment for people of all backgrounds. Please feel free to note any accessibility needs or concerns in your registration\, or connect with us by email or phone (215.573.8280).
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/the-paradox-of-hunger-strikes/
LOCATION:Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts\, Van Pelt Library\, 3420 Walnut St\, 6th Floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Crafting Revolutions: Undergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference
DESCRIPTION:The Wolf Humanities Center’s 2023–2024 Undergraduate Research Fellows present their research on “Revolution.”\n\n\nCrafting Revolutions\nUndergraduate Humanities Forum Research Conference\nEach year the Wolf Humanities Center’s Undergraduate Humanities Forum brings together undergraduate students from across the humanities and beyond to explore a common theme. Join us on April 12th as the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2023–2024 Undergraduate Research Fellows present their research on “Revolution.” \n \nCONFERENCE SCHEDULE \n9:00–9:30amBreakfast \n––––––––––– \n9:30–9:45amOpening RemarksHertha Torre Gallego and Zhangyang (Charlie) Xie\, Executive Board and Research Fellows\, Undergraduate Humanities Forum \n––––––––––– \n9:45–11:30amRevolutionary ThoughtsModerator: Dagmawi Woubshet\, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Associate Professor of English\, University of Pennsylvania \nJiayi Li\, Intellectual History\, Economics; CAS 2025Translating the Marxist Teleology into Rural China: The Conceptualization of the ‘Feudal Relation of Land’ and the Agrarian Revolution under the United Front\, 1924-1927 \nJean Paik\, English; CAS 2024Free(dom) Zones: Collectivizing the Body in the Literature of Korean Women Factory Workers \nYijian (Davie) Zhou\, Philosophy and Psychology; CAS 2024Revolutionary Subjectivity \nAlex Yim\, English; CAS 2025Kubo: Korean Flâneurs as Anti-Colonial Artistic and Political Emblems \n––––––––––– \n1:00–2:45pmRevolutionary BodiesModerator: Ramah McKay\, Associate Professor of History and Sociology of Science\, University of Pennsylvania \nDhivya Arasappan\, Health & Societies\, Biology; CAS 2024A Climate-Health Revolution: Examining Novel Framings of Climate Change as a Health Crisis \nSergio Emilio Carballido Murcio\, Religious Studies and Mathematical Economics; CAS 2026La Santa Muerte: A Revolution to Mexico’s Popular Religiosity and its National Identity \nHertha Torre Gallego\, Health and Societies\, Hispanic Studies; CAS 2024A Partial Revolution: Engaging with Realities of Abortion Reform in Argentina \nZhangyang (Charlie) Xie\, Africana Studies; Science\, Technology\, and Society; CAS 2024Grappling Culture: How the Black Panther Party Addressed Colonial and Urban Anxieties through Martial Arts \n––––––––––– \n2:45–3:00pmBreak \n––––––––––– \n3:00–4:30pmRevolutionary DimensionsModerator: Kevin M.F. Platt\, Professor of Russian and East European Studies\, University of Pennsylvania \nVictoria Avanesov\, Comparative Literature\, History of Art; CAS 2026Victory Over the Sun: Reimagining Russian Suprematist Works Through Visual and Linguistic Reconstruction \nLiam Phillips\,Comparative Literature\, Russian and East European Studies; CAS 2024In Search of a New Russian Readership: Communal Experience and Literary Form in Mikhail Kuzmin’s Wings \nTova Tachau\, Biochemistry\, Comparative Literature; CAS 2025Embryos of Possibility in Malevich and Khlebnikov: Russian Futurist Revolutions Beyond Time\, Space\, and Language\, 1913–1917 \n––––––––––– \n4:30pmClosing RemarksJosephine Park\, Director\, Undergraduate Humanities Forum; School of Arts and Sciences President’s Distinguished Professor of English; University of Pennsylvania
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/crafting-revolutions-undergraduate-humanities-forum-research-conference/
LOCATION:Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts\, Van Pelt Library\, 3420 Walnut St\, 6th Floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Amazigh Poetics: An Emerging Indigenous Literary Field
DESCRIPTION:A panel combining poetic readings in both Tamazight and English with a scholarly intervention on the construction of Amazigh literature.\n\n\nBrahim El Guabli\, Associate Professor of Arabic Studies and Comparative Literature\, Williams College \nKhadija Ikan\, Moroccan writer \nAtlas Phoenix\, Translator \nThis panel combines poetic readings in both Tamazight and English with a scholarly intervention on the construction of Amazigh literature. The participants will discuss the imbrication of Indigeneity and literary concerns in Amazigh people’s struggle for recognition of their language and culture in their indigenous homeland in Tamazgha (the broader North Africa). \n______________ \nA Black and Amazigh Indigenous scholar from Morocco\, Brahim El Guabli is an Associate Professor of Arabic Studies and Comparative Literature at Williams College. His first book is entitled Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence (Fordham University Press\, 2023). He’s currently completing a second book entitled Desert Imaginations: Saharanism and its Discontents. His journal articles have appeared in LA Review of Books\, PMLA\, Interventions\, The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry\, Arab Studies Journal\, History in Africa\, META\, and the Journal of North African Studies\, among others. He is co-editor of the two volumes of Lamalif: A Critical Anthology of Societal Debates in Morocco During the “Years of Lead” (1966-1988) (Liverpool University Press\, 2022) and Refiguring Loss: Jews in Maghrebi and Middle Eastern Cultural Production (Pennsylvania State University Press\, forthcoming). El Guabli is co-founder and co-editor of Tamazgha Studies Journal\, a peer-reviewed journal that seeks to place the Tamazgha at the heart of academic conversations. \n______________ \nKhadija Ikan is a Moroccan writer. She has literary works in Arabic and Amazigh. She is Founding member of the league of women writers of morocco\, responsible for the Amazigh literary file in the league’s office (2012 – 2018). In 1996\, ISESCO Award for Short Story in the Islamic World for the story “When the Carmina Burana Flows”. 2010\, Appreciation Award from the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture. Later published the short stories “Bosnian Days”\, which won the Sudanese Altayeb Salih Prize for Written Creativity” in 2018.
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/amazigh-poetics-an-emerging-indigenous-literary-field/
LOCATION:Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts\, Van Pelt Library\, 3420 Walnut St\, 6th Floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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SUMMARY:Time and Revolution Symposium
DESCRIPTION:Scholars\, artists\, & activists reflect on how the time of revolution & impasse disrupts neat boundaries between past\, present\, & future.\n\n\nWhat is the relationship between revolution—as the tipping point of a project that ushers a new order—and our lived experience of time? How does the unique temporality of revolution\, as a disruption followed by a taking of accounts\, compel convictions that transform intimate and individual projects into shared investments and collective commitments? As genocidal warfare\, mass incarceration\, climate catastrophes\, and global inequality increasingly become normalized aspects of everyday life\, societies everywhere have experienced the formidable organizing of movements demanding social change and institutions of all kinds that sustain themselves by suppressing and coercing new potentials. In other words\, we live in a contemporary moment that alternates between revolution and impasse. How can the humanities help us make sense of this peculiar oscillation that rips apart ideal conceptions of linear progress\, ever more urgent given the violence implied by its ongoing movement? In this multidisciplinary symposium hosted as part of the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2023–2024 Forum on Revolution\, scholars\, artists\, and activists will come together to reflect on how the time of revolution and impasse disrupts neat boundaries between past\, present\, and future. \nSymposium organized by the Wolf Humanities Center’s 2023–2024 Research Associate Josué Chávez; Doctoral Fellows Allison Brooks-Conrad\, Kirby Sokolow\, and Rawad Wehbe; and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows Alessandra Amin\, José Carlos Díaz Zanelli\, Alex Kreger\, Timothy Malone\, and Melissa Reynolds. \n \nCosponsored by Penn’s Departments of English\, History and Sociology of Science\, History of Art\, Music\, and Spanish and Portuguese; Center for Research in Feminist\, Queer\, and Transgender Studies; and Program in Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies.2 \n \n \nAGENDA\n \n10:00 am–10:015 amWelcome Remarks \n\nJamal J. Elias\, Director\, Wolf Humanities Center; Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor of the Humanities; Professor of Religious Studies\, University of Pennsylvania\nHuda Fakhreddine\, Topic Director\, Wolf Humanities Center; Associate Professor of Arabic Literature\, University of Pennsylvania\n\n \n10:15 am–11:45 amVital PastsModerator: Melissa Reynolds\, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow\, Wolf Humanities Center \nHow does the past inform our thinking about practices of revolution? Through artistic and scholarly reflections on the relation between revolution and suffering\, participants in this panel discuss the role of the past in the experience and imagination of revolutionary times. \n\nCarlos Barberena\, Artist\nHannah Feldman\, Associate Professor\, Art History\, Northwestern University\nSpencer Weinreich\, Junior Fellow\, Harvard Society of Fellows; Lecturer on the History of Science\, Harvard University\n\n \n1:00 pm–2:30 pmUnruly PresentsModerator: Allison Brooks-Conrad and Rawad Wehbe\, Doctoral Fellows\, Wolf Humanities Center \nHow do critical interventions potentially revolutionize our experience of the present? The speakers in this session explore how transformations in artistic and food production redefine the parameters of what is possible in the present. \n\nFlannery Cunningham\, Composer and Musicologist\nNadine Fattaleh\, Ph.D. Student\, Media Culture\, and Communication\, New York University\nFatemeh Shams\, Associate Professor\, Persian Literature\, University of Pennsylvania\n\n \n2:45 pm–4:30 pmRevolutionary HorizonsModerator: Timothy Malone\, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow\, Wolf Humanities Center \nWhat is the relation between future horizons and the re-assigning of agency? This panel examines how new structures of feelings and the public debate of mass incarceration put at the forefront of revolutionary futurity the reconfiguration of margin and center in all aspects of social life. \n\nOrisanmi Burton\, Assistant Professor\, Anthropology\, American University\nNour El Rayes\, Assistant Professor\, Ethnomusicology\, Johns Hopkins University\nRobert Saleem Holbrook\, Executive Director\, Abolitionist Law Center; Lecturer in Law\, University of Pennsylvania\nGeo Maher\, Abolitionist educator\, organizer\, and writer\n\n \n4:30 pmClosing Remarks \n\nJosué Chávez\, Research Associate\, Wolf Humanities Center; Ph.D. Candidate\, Hispanic Studies\, University of Pennsylvania\n\n \n5:00 pm–6:00 pmKeynote \nHamed Sinno\, Multi-disciplinary artist
URL:https://gridphilly.com/event/time-and-revolution-symposium/
LOCATION:Kislak Center for Special Collections\, Rare Books and Manuscripts\, Van Pelt Library\, 3420 Walnut St\, 6th Floor\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19104\, United States
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