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The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Assyrian Foundation of America, and the Naby Frye Assyrian Fund for Culture are pleased to present
Mira Xenia Schwerda
Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art 2023-2024; IASH Fellow 2022-2023
This talk will take place online; please register in advance on Zoom here: https://bit.ly/3L90xMO.
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Mira Xenia Schwerda is a historian of photography and print. She holds a joint PhD in History of Art and Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University, an MA in History of Art and Archaeology from Princeton, and a Magister Artium in History, Middle Eastern Studies, and Iranian Studies from the University of Tübingen in Germany. Her book manuscript-in-progress, tentatively titled Between Art and Propaganda: Photographing Revolution in Modern Iran (1905-1911), focuses on the imagery of the Iranian Constitutional Revolution and presents a new history of the visual narratives of political violence brought about by the triad of the telegraph, printing press, and photography. Dr. Schwerda has taught courses and lectured on the global history of photography and print as well as early modern and modern Middle Eastern and South Asian art at the University of Edinburgh. She is a founding member of the digital humanities initiative Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, the co-editor of the journal Art in Translation, and – together with Dr. Melis Taner,– the co-founder of the Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series. Dr. Schwerda is currently completing her research fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh, and she will afterwards continue to work on her book manuscript during a Getty-ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in the History of Art.
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