2024
Ilse Sturkenboom and Theresa Zischkin, “The Introduction of Chinese Decorated Paper to Iran and Its Huge Impact on Manuscript Production in the Islamic World”, paper delivered at the workshop titled “Facing new materials: Changes of Writing Substances, Implements and Supports in Manuscript Cultures” at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg, Germany (25-26 January 2024)
Ilse Sturkenboom, “On the Introduction of Chinese Decorated Paper to Iran and How it Revolutionized Manuscript Production in the Islamic World”, invited annual lecture “The Richard & Mary Rouse History of the Book Lecture”, CMRS Center for Early Global Studies, University College Los Angeles (15 February 2024)
Ilse Sturkenboom, “Considerations of Timurid Herat’s role in the development of paper decoration in Central Asia”, paper delivered at the International scientific-practical conference on the theme “Central Asian Manuscripts in the Mongol and Timurid Empires (13th to 15th centuries)”, Imam Bukhari International Scientific Research Center, Samarkand (29-30 May 2024)
Ilse Sturkenboom, “Relationships between Sufism and decorated paper”, paper delivered at the workshop titled “Sufi Manuscript Cultures III: Materiality of Sufi Manuscripts” at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg, Germany (19-20 September 2024)
Theresa Zischkin, “Stencilled margins revisited: The Panj Ganj of Jāmī refurbished under ʿAbd al-Raḥīm”, paper delivered at the workshop titled “Sufi Manuscript Cultures III: Materiality of Sufi Manuscripts” at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg, Germany (19-20 September 2024)
2025
Theresa Zischkin, “Coloured Paper in the Muraqqaʿ-i Gulshan: Modular Structures Shaping Sensorial Experiences”, paper delivered at the workshop titled “Sensing the Materiality of the Early Modern Islamic World”, convened by the SENSIS research project, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Utrecht University (22-23 May 2025)
Negar Kazemipourleilabadi, “Illuminating Power and Poetry: The Decorative Traditions of Dîvân-i Muhibbî”, paper delivered at OTUGARD at the Central European University (CEU), The Turkish Studies Department, CEU Vienna campus, Austria (31 May 2025)
Theresa Zischkin, “Revival or Deception? Revisiting the Figural Margins of the Bustān of Saʿdi”, paper delivered at the 20th Ernst-Herzfeld-Society (EHG) Conference titled “Historicisms in Islamic Art: Narratives, Materials and Perspectives”, convened by the EHG, the German Archaeological Institute (DAI), and the American University of Cairo (AUC), Oriental Hall, AUC, Cairo (3-5 July 2025)
Ilse Sturkenboom, invited member of the podium discussion „Transkulturalität als Herausforderung: Brauchen wir mehr Grenzüberschreitungen in der Kunstgeschichte?“ at the Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen (9 July 2025)
Ilse Sturkenboom with Lorenz Korn, “Bukharan Decoration and Its Transmediality: The Walls of Khoja Zayn al-Din as an Open Book”, paper delivered at the 10th Biennial Convention of The Association for the Study of Persianate Societies, Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies, Tashkent, Usbekistan (12-16 August 2025)
Negar Kazemipourleilabadi, “Colored papers, gold and silver fleckings and silhouetted papers, a lost tradition of royally favored decoration”, paper delivered during the 7th Leiden Summer School on Philology and Manuscripts from the Muslim World 2025, Leiden University (29 August 2025)
Theresa Zischkin, “Decorated Paper in the Muraqqaʿ-i Gulshan: Form, Techniques & Function”, paper delivered at the 35th Deutscher Orientalistentag (DOT) titled “Decorated Paper in the Muraqqa‘-i Gulshan: Form, Techniques & Function”, at FAU Erlangen (8-12 September 2025)