Join the RSVP Digital Events committee on Friday, September 8 at 8am PST / 11am EST / 4pm GMT to hear from:
Hala Auji, who will speak on “(Other)worldly Musings: Transnational Imagery in Arabic Periodicals”
and
Tom Young, who will discuss “The ‘Autographic Self’: Facsimile Signatures and Lithographic Portraiture at the Crossroads of Liberalism, Romanticism and Nationalism, c.1800–60”
Hala Auji is an Associate Professor of Art History and the Hamad bin Khalifa Endowed Chair for Islamic Art at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and The American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut. Her talk will cover illustrated nineteenth-century Arabic periodicals, published in Egypt and Ottoman Syria, that demonstrate how press editors were interested in popularizing all sorts of knowledge, as a “public benefit,” while concurrently serving up forms of visual entertainment through myriad engravings that belonged to local and transnational networks of artistic exchange.
Tom Young is a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Art Histories at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London and author of Unmaking the East India Company: British Art and Political Reform in Colonial India, c.1813–58. He will speak from his current project about the 19th century global spread of lithography, specifically about a portrait format that was typically produced using lithography and frequently used in periodicals, especially literary magazines (although also as book frontispieces, sometimes stand-alone prints).
Join Us September 8
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