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Brown Library Call for Applications: Gardner Fellowship
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Imperial Qing dynasty map is dated 1814, Brown Digital Repository (BDR) The Library’s Gardner Fellowship is now accepting applications. This program is designed to promote in-depth and creative research using the Library’s rare East Asian materials, with goals to:
- Integrate selected materials into contemporary scholarship
- Enhance our understanding of these rare objects
The fellowship offers a stipend of $2,500 per fellow. Both graduate and undergraduate students at Brown University are eligible to apply. The deadline for submission is October 27, 2024.
For more information about the fellowship and detailed application guidelines, please visit the Library’s newly launched website for East Asian Research: “Engaging East Asian Rare Materials.”
Faculty members and department managers: Please share this announcement with your students!
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Brown Library Call for Applications: Brown-BNU International Research Collaboration
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Viewing a map from the Gardner Collection Brown University Library is excited to announce the new Brown-Beijing Normal University International Research Collaboration Program to support research on China that uses the materials in the BNU library system in Beijing. While not required, collaborations with the BNU scholars can also be covered by the fellowship.
Successful applicants will receive up to three months of support for their research activities, at $2,250 per month. The deadline for submission is October 31, 2024.
For more information about the program and detailed application guidelines, please visit the Library’s newly launched website for East Asian Research: “Engaging East Asian Rare Materials.”
Faculty members and department managers: Please share this announcement with your students!
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Books from the City: Making Meeting in Isfahan (2022) at the Chester Beatty
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Join the John Hay Library and the Center for Middle East Studies for a talk by Dr. Moya Carey, Curator of Islamic Collections at the Chester Beatty in Dublin, Ireland. Dr. Carey will discuss the making of the exhibit “Meeting in Isfahan: Vision and Exchange in Safavid Iran.”
Tuesday, October 8, 2024
4 p.m.
Primary Sources Lab (room 321)
John Hay LibraryFree and open to the public.
Detail from Iskandar marries Roshanak, from the Book of Kings (Shāhnāma) by Firdausī, Isfahan, Iran, 1655 (1066H). CBL Per 270.66 Meeting in Isfahan: Vision and Exchange in Safavid Iran
In February 2022, as Covid restrictions finally began to ease in Ireland, a new exhibition opened at the Chester Beatty in Dublin: “Meeting in Isfahan: Vision and Exchange in Safavid Iran.” Told through manuscripts, album pages, and printed books, “Meeting in Isfahan” explored how the historic city of Isfahan became a new hub for dazzling urbanity, dynastic self-projection, and cosmopolitan energy, thanks to a strategic centralization of the silk economy.
Together with loans from the National Museum of Ireland, the exhibition presented 65 exceptional works from the Chester Beatty’s Persian, Turkish, Arabic, and Armenian collections, as well as early printed books and maps from Europe.
Moya Carey
Dr. Moya Carey is the Curator of Islamic Collections at the Chester Beatty in Dublin. Previously, she worked as the Iran Heritage Foundation Curator for the Iranian Collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She is interested in visual culture in all media, most particularly the arts of the book, carpets and metalwork, the history of science illustration, and the cultural contexts surrounding later appropriations, re-use, collecting history, and provenance.
In 2022, Dr. Carey curated the exhibition “Meeting in Isfahan: Vision and Exchange in Safavid Iran” (4 February – 28 August 2022) at the Chester Beatty. Her research also addresses the art and architecture of Qajar Iran, and the history of collecting in the 19th and 20th centuries, particularly in relation to Egypt, Syria and Iran. She is working in partnership with Prof. Mercedes Volait on a research project centered on architectural salvage, repurposed for private collections and national display contexts alike, in late 19th-century Cairo.