Jerusalem’s Sacred Art and Spaces: Tracing layered histories of faith in the landscape of historic Palestine
Virtual Conference: March 7, 2025
Conference Program:
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| 11:00 AM | Visions of an Otherworld: Re-imagined Sanctities in Early Islamic Jerusalem
Heba Mostafa, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Toronto Heba Mostafa is Associate Professor of Islamic art and architecture at the Department of Art History, University of Toronto, St George Campus. Her research focuses on the formation of Islamic architecture as well as Islam’s interface with late antiquity, Christianity and Judaism through commemorative architecture, pilgrimage and ritual practice, with a particular focus on Jerusalem and Cairo. |
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| 12:00 PM |
Constructing the Past in a Crusading Present Megan Boomer, Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture, Bates College Megan Boomer is an architectural historian of the medieval Mediterranean. Her current book project, Reconstructing the Holy Land, investigates the reshaping of sacred sites in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (1099-1187). She is an Assistant Professor of Art and Visual Culture at Bates College. |
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| 1:00 PM | Break | |
| 1:30 PM |
"Parasitic" to Picturesque: Re-Envisioning Jerusalem During the British Mandate Nisa Ari, Associate Professor of Art History, Montserrat College of Art Nisa Ari is Associate Professor of Art History at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts. She regularly publishes on Palestinian art in the late-19th and early-20th centuries and her research has been supported by numerous fellowships, including the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), the Mellon Foundation/American Council for Learned Societies, and the Palestinian American Research Center. She earned her Ph.D. in the History, Theory, and Criticism of Art and Architecture program at MIT. |
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| 2:30 PM | Virtual Roundtable Discussion | |
| 3:00 PM | End of Conference |
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2025 Jerusalem Conference
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