Court and Cosmos: The Great Age of the Seljuqs
Conference
About This Conference
Approximately 270 objects—including ceramics, glass, stucco, works on paper, woodwork, textiles, and metalwork—from American, European, and Middle Eastern public and private collections are shown. Many of the institutions have never lent works from their collections before. Among the highlights are a dozen important loans from Turkmenistan—the exhibition marks the first time that Turkmenistan as an independent country has permitted an extended loan of a group of historical objects to a museum in the United States.
A symposium, funded jointly by the Soudavar Memorial Foundation and the Roshan Institute, was held on June 10-11, 2016, and was preceded on June 9th by keynote lectures by Professors Robert and Carole Hillenbrand on June 9th. Their talk was an overview of the history and art history of the Seljuqs, incorporating recent scholarship, much of which they either inspired or generated themseles. The two-day symposium consisted of four sessions with a total of seventeen speakers.
