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SUMMARY: Conceptual Photography and the Craft of Reading Islamic Historical Tex
DESCRIPTION: Conceptual Photography and the Craft of Reading Islamic Historical Texts This lecture will take place online at 17:00 BSTWhen historical texts are read, readers rely on their intellectual conditioning to understand and judge what such texts are conveying. In this experimental talk, Dr Shahzad Bashir utilises 19th-century Indian Islamic texts to suggest that anamorphism highlighted in concept-driven photography provides a useful analogy for seeing how historians’ narratives become containers for irreducibly complex worlds. Historians’ claims about the past are always equally valid and distortive, mirroring the way a two-dimensional image in a photograph captures a three-dimensional world. The analogy helps scholars appreciate historical knowledge as a particular form of truth that cannot be mapped to basic notions of objectivity, subjectivity, normativity, and so on.  Resister to attend in person: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-institute-of-ismaili-studies/t-qjopnae Register to attend online: https://iis-ac-uk.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_KQU7DjuMR-6V1SbEirIVrg#/registrationSpeakersDr Shahzad BashirDeanShahzad Bashir is Dean of the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London.Amanda LanzilloAssistant ProfessorAmanda Lanzillo is an Assistant Professor in the Department of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago.
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