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Medieval Persian
Ceramics
Topic of ASOR Public Lecture
Like
much of the art of the ancient world, the ceramics of Medieval Persia offered
the initiated viewer more than just a pretty face. The detailed iconography -
whether geometric, anointed with calligraphy, or consisting of different varieties
of flowers, fish, birds or even more exotic beasts - often connoted a theme related
to literature and Islamic mysticism.
On Thursday
evening, Nov. 18, Prof. Bethany Walker of Grand Valley State University will discuss
these themes in her talk, "The Literary and Spiritual Worlds of Medieval Persia:
Exploring SAMA's Islamic Ceramic Collection."
Free with museum admission ($8 for adults; $4 for lecture with ASOR badge), Prof.
Walker's talk is sponsored jointly by SAMA and The American Schools of Oriental
Research (ASOR). It is one of several activities offered by ASOR during the course
of the organization's annual meeting, to be held Nov. 17-20 at the Westin
Riverwalk in San Antonio.
Among the other
ASOR activities is a five-hour workshop for high school teachers to be held Saturday,
Nov. 20, also at SAMA. Topics to be addressed include "Qumran and the Dead Sea
Scrolls," "Mesopotamia and the Classroom," and the online Uluburun Shipwreck Project.
Participants will receive Professional Development credit hours via the Museum.
For details and registration, contact Gloria London (glondon@earthlink.net).
Interested members of the public are also invited
to attend the ASOR lectures and academic sessions where more than 200 papers related
to different aspects of ancient Near Eastern civilization will be presented. The
papers will be divided into 35 sections, covering such areas as ancient Anatolia,
ancient Arabia, Egypt and Canaan, Ottoman Syro-Palestine, and the southern Levant.
A detailed program of events, complete with costs, is listed at www.asor.org.
The program is also available from the American Schools of Oriental Research,
located at Boston University, 656 Beacon St., 5th floor, Boston, MA 02215, tel.
617-353-6570, fax 617-353-6575. Back
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2004
ASOR Annual Meeting - Public lecture