Welcomed guest lecturer, Ünver Rüstem, joins AHI309: "Arts of the Islamic World", class

UB’s Middle East Studies Initiative (MESI) and the Department of Art presents:

“Shown in a Lifelike Way” (or “No Great Art Therein”): Ottoman Costume Albums and the Art of Self-Representation , by Ünver Rüstem, Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Johns Hopkins University

Lecture Monday March 3 at 1 PM, 112 Center for the Arts

This lecture is open to the public, joining the regular;y scheduled session of the class AHI309, "Arts of the Islamic World", taught by UB Art History Professor Berin Golonu, meeting in the CFA 112 Screening Room, to accomodate guests.

Followed by a workshop with Ünver Rüstem, for UB students and faculty: Monday March 3 at 3 PM, 144 Center for the Arts

Reading material will be circulated to workshop participants in advance. We ask that workshop participants please send an RSVP with this here: https://universityatbuffalo-iciee.formstack.com/forms/unver_rustem_workshop_rsvp

Ünver Rüstem is the Second Decade Society Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Ottoman Baroque: The Architectural Refashioning of Eighteenth-Century Istanbul (Princeton University Press, 2019) and has published articles and chapters on subjects as diverse as the reception of illustrated Islamic manuscripts, the ceremonial framing of Ottoman mosque architecture, and the distinctive funerary art of Ottoman Cyprus. At present, he is working on a new book project that explores the role of costume in Ottoman interactions with Western Europe during the early modern and modern periods.