The Annual York-Noor Lecture Series 2008-2009

presents

Firdousi’s Shahnama Illustrated: The Book of Kings Interpreted by Iranians, Mongols, and Turks

A lecture by Dr. Karin Ruehrdanz, Royal Ontario Museum

Date: Sunday November 16, 2008
Time: 3:00 pm
Location: Auditorium, Noor Cultural Centre
Admission: $5

Dr. Karin Ruehrdanz was recently appointed curator of Islamic Decorative Arts at the Royal Ontario Museum and Professor in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. Having received her Ph.D., Karin taught Islamic Art and Archaeology at Halle and Bamberg Universities and at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1993/94 she completed her research on illustrated histories of the prophets at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (published jointly with Rachel Milstein and Barbara Schmitz: Stories of the Prophets: Illustrated Manuscripts of Qisas al-Anbiya’, Costa Mesa: Mazda, 1999). In recent years her research focused on illustrated Arabic and Persian encyclopaedias of natural history, on Central Asian miniature painting, and on the formation of collections of Islamic art in Central Europe since early modern times. She prepared the project of a comprehensive digital survey of Islamic art objects in Vienna public collections for the Institute of Iranian Studies at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.