Research Focus

Profilbereich

Art History of Islamic Cultures

Fachgruppe

Humanities

Schwerpunkte

subjectivity, embodiment, and feminist critique; modern and contemporary art of the Middle East and the Global South; museum studies, museography of Islamic art, and the impact of coloniality and Eurocentrism on museums; history of colonial photography; history of archaeology in the Middle East; European painting and art practices in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey; Islamic art historiography intellectual history and historiography of the Islamic world; discourses of the image, mimesis, music, and painting in Islamic cultures Platonic thought and Platonism; secularism and religion in art and art history with emphasis on the late Ottoman Empire, Turkey, and other historic regions of Islamic hegemony; critical and postcolonial theories of heritage, preservation, and decoloniality; writing and rhetorical practices