News from Team Khamseen
May 26, 2022
Announcing the Winner of the Khamseen Graduate Student Presentation Award
We are delighted to announce Sylvia Wu (University of Chicago) as the winner of Khamseen’s inaugural Graduate Student Presentation Award for her submission entitled “The Ashab Mosque in Quanzhou: A Coastal Mosque in South China.”
Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online has been offering short-form presentations in Islamic art and related fields since the website’s launch in Fall 2020. The PhD has been a requirement for contributors. However, after receiving interest from advanced graduate students, Khamseen organized its first annual Graduate Student Presentation Award to extend participation to select PhD candidates.
As the Graduate Student Presentation awardee, Sylvia Wu will receive a $500 award and work with Team Khamseen to prepare her presentation for publication on the Khamseen website.
Congratulations to Sylvia Wu! We look forward to seeing her work go live very soon.
Please stay tuned for this exciting presentation and other new content on Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online.
April 11, 2022
Khamseen’s founding director, Prof. Christiane Gruber, recently presented Khamseen at the American Historical Association Conference. Find out in the link below what she has to say about us and where we’re going next!
Riding the Winds of Change: Khamseen and Islamic Art History Online
January 26, 2022
The International Journal of Islamic Architecture‘s webinar “On Pedagogy: Islamic Art and Architecture in the Classroom,” featured series host, Emily Neumeier, joined by Christiane Gruber, Stephennie Mulder, and Fernando Luis Martínez Nespral, part of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture Dialogues Series can now be found on IJIA’s YouTube channel.
January 21, 2022
Webinar: “On Pedagogy: Islamic Art and Architecture in the Classroom,” part of the International Journal of Islamic Architecture Dialogues Series
Date and Time: Friday, January 21, 2022, 12:00-1:00 pm US EST
Register in advance for this session: https://temple.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJErde2orTkrGtyn2BG5bvkVVij_WrjJvxxa
The International Journal of Islamic Architecture (IJIA) Dialogues Series is an annual webinar that brings together scholars and practitioners from across varied disciplines for a discussion of critical contemporary issues that interrogate the boundaries between architecture, art, anthropology, archaeology, and history.
Just in time for the beginning of the spring semester, the 2nd annual session, “On Pedagogy: Islamic Art and Architecture in the Classroom,” features series host, Emily Neumeier, joined by Christiane Gruber, Stephennie Mulder, and Fernando Luis Martínez Nespral for a virtual discussion (via Zoom) on a number of pressing issues surrounding the teaching of Islamic art in a wide range of classroom settings, including:
- The impact of the pandemic and frequent pivoting between online and in-person instruction
- The demands for anti-racism and DEI initiatives within the field and intersections with decolonial studies
- And what’s on the horizon for new and ongoing pedagogical initiatives such as Khamseen, the #StudentsofIslamicArt Wikipedia edit-a-thon, and GAHTC (Global Architectural History Teaching Collaborative).
December 3, 2020
Review from The Islamic Studies library at McGill University
Anaïs Salamon, the Head Librarian of the Islamic Studies Library at McGill University, reviewed Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online for their library blog on the Resources for Islamic Studies.
You can read this review here: mcgill.ca/x/oJG
November 23, 2020
Continuous Page: Scrolls and Scrolling from Papyrus to Hypertext
Team Khamseen’s very own managing director, Sandra Williams, attended Courtauld Research Forum’s online event, Continuous Page: Bringing Art Online in a Pandemic, on Monday, November 23rd.
Experts from various fields of digital art history talked about the impact of the pandemic in their different lines of work, from museums and journals to digital research projects and public history.
November 21, 2020
American Historical Association’s Remote Teaching Resources
American Historical Association listed Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online on their Remote Teaching Resources.
You can reach the listing here: myumi.ch/K4y4D
October 20th, 2020
Launch Day for Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online
It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of the Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online website, accessible here on October 20th, 2020. Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online is a free and open-access online platform of digital resources to aid the teaching of Islamic art, architecture, and visual culture. It is sponsored by the Digital Islamic Studies Curriculum (DISC) at the University of Michigan through the support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Khamseen currently offers a collection of short-form video presentations on a range of topics in the scholarly discipline of Islamic art history. These presentations are intended to support educators, particularly those who face limited access to institutional and archival resources, and to bring new voices, perspectives, methodologies, artworks, and objects into classrooms. Besides catering to undergraduate and graduate students, the materials provided here are also intended to help educate and inspire interested audiences outside of academia. Through this platform, we seek to take the study of Islamic art out to the world, reaching a truly international level of engagement and learning thanks to the possibilities of integrated digital technologies.
Visit the Khamseen website and follow us on our socials: @khamseenislamicart (Instagram), @TeamKhamseen (Twitter), and @KhamseenIslamicArt (Facebook).
If you are interested in contributing to Khamseen, please submit your idea here.