The NYU Center for Ancient Studies, in conjunction with the Grey Art Gallery, announces
The Rose-Marie Lewent Conference
Persepolis, Then and Now
Thursday, November 21, 2019
Hemmerdinger Hall, Room 102, Silver Center for Arts and Science
32 Waverly Place, or 31 Washington Place, New York, NY 10003
212.992.7978
To RSVP, please visit this link: https://forms.gle/DixwPUwj9HYupjYZ9
1:00pm Welcome
Matthew S. Santirocco (Classics/Center for Ancient Studies, NYU)
Lucy Oakley (Grey Art Gallery, NYU)
1:15pm SESSION I – Ancient Persepolis and Its Rediscoveries
Moderator: Hallie Franks (Gallatin School, NYU)
1:30pm Builders, Sculptors and Painters on an Archaeological Site in Iran, c. 520-330 BCE
Alexander Nagel (SUNY-FIT and the Smithsonian Institution)
2:15pm The Power of Persepolis: From Sābūr Sakānšāh to Cornelis de Bruijn
Daniel T. Potts (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU)
3:00pm BREAK
3:15pm SESSION II – Persepolis in the Modern Artistic Imagination
Moderator: Ali Mirsepassi (Gallatin School/Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, NYU)
3:30pm Persepolis and Modern Cinema: Redemption of Ruin and Nation
Farbod Honarpisheh (Film and Media Studies, Yale University)
4:15pm Iannis Xenakis and Persepolis: Music as Spectacle
Carey Lovelace (Independent Curator)
5:00pm Parviz Tanavoli, Persepolis, and the Reinvention of Persian Sculpture
Lucy Oakley (Grey Art Gallery, NYU)
5:45pm RECEPTION AND EXHIBITION VIEWING
Cosponsored by the NYU Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, the Iranian Studies Initiative, and the College of Arts and Science.
This conference is held in conjunction with the exhibition Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU's Abby Weed Grey Collection, on view at NYU's Grey Art Gallery from September 9 to December 7, 2019.
For more information, contact the NYU Center for Ancient Studies at ancient.studies@nyu.edu or 212.992.7978