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AHVA postdoctoral fellow Atri Hatef Naiemi will share her research on Tuesday\, April 1\, from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. in Room 1002\, Audain Art Centre. All are welcome!
From Imperial Capitals to Provincial Centres: Urban Lega cies of the Ilkhanids
April 1\, 2025
12:30–2:00 p.m.
Room 1002\, Auda
in Art Centre
6398 University Blvd.
The period following the Mongol conquest of Iran in the thirteenth century\ , that of the so-called Pax Mongolica\, witnessed the emergence of a new vi sual language in Persian art and architecture. Various Islamic and non-Isla mic visual traditions that permeated the whole body of the arts of thirteen th- and fourteenth-century Iran played a pivotal role in the formation of t he hybrid style characterizing the art and architecture of the Ilkhanid per iod. Operating as an interconnected network of people\, buildings\, and ins titutions\, the Ilkhanid city perfectly represents different aspects of cro ss-cultural encounters in medieval Iran. < /span>
This lecture will first explore the capital cities established by the Ilkhans (Mongol rulers) in northwest Ira n during the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. It will then e xamine how regional dynasties in southern Iran responded to these imperial initiatives—either by adopting or rejecti ng them—during the Ilkhanid period and in the decades following the dynasty ’s collapse in the 1330s.
We acknowledge that the UBC Vancouver campus is si
tuated on the traditional\, ancestral\, and unceded territory of the xʷməθk
ʷəy̓əm (Musqueam).