Essays & Notes
Short reflections, translations, and research notes on curating, Persianate visual culture, and memory studies.
Re-seeing Qajar Youth: A working note on Ahdāth vs. Amrād (1–2 min read)
Field notes from course prep and ongoing research: how “recentness” (Ahdāth) functions as a spiritual aesthetic rather than an erotic code, with examples from Murāqqaʿ-i Darāvīsh and Jalayer’s Portrait of Nūr-Alī Shāh.
Teaching Global Art: Making survey courses less Euro-centric (3–4 min read)
Notes on scaffolding themes (migration, empire, translation) and assignments that foreground student-led archives.
Curating Diasporic Memory: A checklist for small institutions (2–3 min read)
A practical checklist for community-centered shows: consent, context, and care-based installation.
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