Keynote Speaker
Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize-winning Author and Architecture Critic for The New Yorker
Speakers
François Déroche, Directeur d’études, École pratique des hautes études, Section des sciences historiques et philologiques, Paris
Kjeld von Folsach, Director of the David Collection in Copenhagen
Michael Franses, Independent Scholar
Aimée Froom, Independent Scholar
Julia Gonnella, Curator at the Museum of Islamic Art (SMPK) in Berlin
Ruba Kana’an, Head of Research and Publications at the Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada.
Emilie Savage-Smith, Professor of the History of Islamic Science (retired), The Oriental Institute, University of Oxford and Senior Research Consultant, Bodleian Library, Archivist & Former Fellow, St Cross College, Oxford.
John Seyller, Professor of Art History, University of Vermont
Eleanor Sims, Editor, Islamic Art
Antonio Vallejo Triano, a curator of Cultural Heritage for the Junta de Andalucía (the Andalusian regional government) and Director of the archaeological site of Madinat al-Zahra.
Rachel Ward, Independent Scholar
Mohamed Zakariya, Calligrapher
