{"id":1372,"date":"2018-10-22T20:05:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T20:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/?p=1372"},"modified":"2018-10-22T20:05:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T20:05:40","slug":"1372","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/2018\/10\/22\/1372\/","title":{"rendered":"Interim Program Head and Visual Resources Librarian to present at HIAA Symposium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hiaa2018.yale.edu\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1373 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/10\/Border-Crossing-300x187.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/10\/Border-Crossing-300x187.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/10\/Border-Crossing-1024x640.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/10\/Border-Crossing-768x480.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/10\/Border-Crossing-1536x960.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/10\/Border-Crossing-624x390.jpeg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2018\/10\/Border-Crossing.jpeg 1581w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT (AKDC@MIT) is excited to offer an information session on its collections at the <a href=\"https:\/\/hiaa2018.yale.edu\/\">2018 Biennial Symposium of the Historians of Islamic Art Association<\/a> (HIAA), taking place at Yale University on October 25 \u2013 27, 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libguides.mit.edu\/profiles\/saba\">Matt Saba<\/a>, Visual Resources Librarian at AKDC@MIT, will offer an overview of the center\u2019s collections, highlighting new acquisitions since 2012. Noteworthy examples are the archives of Iraqi architects <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/123\/details\">Mohamed Makiya<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/851\/details\">Hisham Munir<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/1218\/details\">Rifat Chadirji<\/a>, whose works represent a pivotal moment in the history of modern architecture, and the archive of French architect <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/collections\/29\/details\">Michel \u00c9cochard<\/a>, who worked on numerous urban renewal projects in the Islamic world. <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/authorities\/2691\">Michael Toler<\/a>, Interim Program Head and Archnet Content Manager at AKDC@MIT, will offer attendees a status update on <a href=\"https:\/\/archnet.org\/\">Archnet<\/a> and preview Layercake, a new tool for mapping historical events in both space and time.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s HIAA Symposium, titled \u201cBorder Crossing,\u201d brings together an international group of scholars to present research on areas in the field of Islamic art traditionally defined as marginal. This includes both so-called peripheral geographic regions (e.g. Southeast Asia and Western Africa) as well as marginalized methodologies to the study of art history. Registration for the symposium is available online <a href=\"https:\/\/hiaa2018.yale.edu\/registration\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>AKDC@MIT\u2019s information session takes place from 1:15-2:00 at the Loria Center, 190 York Street, New Haven CT, Room 360.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT (AKDC@MIT) is excited to offer an information session on its collections at the 2018 Biennial Symposium of the Historians of Islamic Art Association (HIAA), taking place at Yale University on October 25 \u2013 27, 2018. Matt Saba, Visual Resources Librarian at AKDC@MIT, will offer an overview of the center\u2019s collections, highlighting new acquisitions since 2012. Noteworthy examples are the archives of Iraqi architects Mohamed Makiya, Hisham Munir, and Rifat Chadirji, whose works represent a pivotal moment in the history of modern architecture, and the archive of French architect Michel \u00c9cochard, who worked on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_this_an_event":false},"categories":[268,269,273],"tags":[302,353,397],"class_list":["post-1372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-akdc-news","category-archnet-news","category-events","tag-akdcmit","tag-conferences","tag-hiaa"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1376,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372\/revisions\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/akdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}