Upcoming and Ongoing Events

• 09.26.19–04.09.20

  Lecture

  Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University: 2019-20 Lecture Series

  Harvard University

• 02.07–05.03.20

  Exhibition

  Calligrapher to the King – Daud al-Hossaini

  Museum for Islamic Art

  Berlin

• 04.03.20

  Lecture

  (Silsila Spring 2020 Lecture Series, Maghrib: Arts of the Islamic West) "Be! and It Is." Visual Philology as Radical Humanism in the Work of Kamal Boullata, by Finbarr Barry Flood, Silsila/NYU

  New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

  New York

  6:30 pm

• 04.06.20

  Lecture

  Perceived Through the Feet: Approaching Architecture on the Ground, with Prof. Gerhard Wolf (KHI Florence, Max-Planck Institute)

  612 Schermerhorn, Columbia University

  New York

  6:00 pm

• 04.07.20

  Lecture

  (Silsila Spring 2020 Lecture Series, Maghrib: Arts of the Islamic West) Sultan Raziyya (1236-40) and the Accounts (Hisab) of Men, by Sunil Kumar, University of Delhi

  New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

  New York

  6:30 pm

• 04.09.20

  Lecture

  Habsburg Alba Amicorum in Ottoman Constantinople, by Robyn Radway, Assistant Professor of History, Central European University

  Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 422

  485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

• 04.10.20

  Workshop

  The Maqamat Tradition and the Pre-Modern Roots of Arab Modernism, a workshop at Silsila, NYU

  New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

  New York

  6:30 pm

• 04.15.20

  Seminar

  Little-explored treasures? The Indian textile collections at the British Museum, with Richard Blurton, Research Curator, Department of Asia, British Museum

  Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Alumni Lecture Theatre

  London

  7:00 pm

• 04.22.20

  Lecture

  (Silsila Spring 2020 Lecture Series, Maghrib: Arts of the Islamic West) Miracles of Mediation: Still-Life, Liturgical Vessels, and Processions at Cordoba, by Beate Fricke, University of Bern

  New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

  New York

  6:30 pm

• 04.22.20

  Lecture

  The Qur’ans of Uljaytu, with Dr Alison Ohta Director, Royal Asiatic Society, London

  Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House (first floor, room 108)

  Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

  7:00 pm

• 04.23.20

  Lecture

  Qusayr 'Amra: The Pandora's Box of Early Islamic Aesthetics, by Nadia Ali, Faculty Fellow, Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University

  Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 422

  485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

• 04.30.20

  Forum

  "MEASURE AND MEANING-A CONVERSATION" Emanuele Lugli, Stanford University and Finbarr Barry Flood, NYU

  New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

  New York

  6:30 pm

• 05.06.20

  Seminar

  The 22nd Annual Toby Falk Memorial Lecture - Haludar: a meticulous observer and illustrator of natural history in Bengal, c. 1799-1818, with Dr Malini Roy, Head of Visual Arts, British Library

  Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Alumni Lecture Theatre

  London

  7:00 pm

• 05.06.20

  Lecture

  (Silsila Spring 2020 Lecture Series, Maghrib: Arts of the Islamic West) MODERN THINGS ON TRIAL-ISLAM'S GLOBAL AND MATERIAL REFORM IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY, by Leor Halevi, Vanderbilt University

  New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

  New York

  6:30 pm

• 05.13.20

  Lecture

  ART AND OIL: Calouste Gulbenkian and his Collection of Islamic Art, with Dr Jessica Hallett, Curator, Early Modern Middle East, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal

  Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House (first floor, room 108)

  Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

  7:00 pm

• 05.14.20

  Seminar

  Early Qur’ans from Archives of Sacred Texts, with Alba Fedeli, Universität Hamburg

  Russell Square: College Buildings, Room 4426

  London

  5:30 pm

• 06.10.20

  Lecture

  Architects & Astrolabes: Islamic Art & Science in Medici Florence, with Dr Glaire Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art, University of Edinburgh

  Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House (first floor, room 108)

  Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

  7:00 pm

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• Lecture

  (Silsila Spring 2020 Lecture Series, Maghrib: Arts of the Islamic West) "Be! and It Is." Visual Philology as Radical Humanism in the Work of Kamal Boullata, by Finbarr Barry Flood, Silsila/NYU

  New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

  New York

  6:30 pm

  04.03.20

• Lecture

  Reconstituting the Archive of Hazrat-i Dehli: The Sultans, the Sufis and the Riverine Plain of Delhi, by Professor Sunil Kumar, Delhi University [SECOND OF THE TWO SPECIAL GUEST LECTURES FOR THE AKPIA SERIES]

  Arthur M. Sackler Building, Basement Auditorium

  485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

  04.02.20

• Lecture

  The Creation and Representation of Order: Ghiyas al-Din Tughluq’s Tughluqabad, by Professor Sunil Kumar, Delhi University [FIRST ONE OF THE SPECIAL GUEST LECTURES FOR THE AKPIA SERIES]

  Arthur M. Sackler Building, Basement Auditorium

  485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

  03.31.20

• Lecture

  (Silsila Spring 2020 Lecture Series, Maghrib: Arts of the Islamic West) Gold Work: Techniques and Exchange across the Sahara, by Sarah Guerin, University of Pennsylvania

  New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

  New York

  6:30 pm

  03.31.20

• Lecture

  (Silsila Spring 2020 Lecture Series, Maghrib: Arts of the Islamic West) Between Paradise and Hell- Almohad Palatial Architecture, by Mehdi Ghouirgate, Bordeaux-Montaigne University

  New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

  New York

  6:30 pm

  03.25.20

• Seminar

  Indian Treasures from a Scottish Country House, with Dr Rosie Llewellyn-Jones (Independent scholar (SOAS Alumna))

  Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Alumni Lecture Theatre

  London

  7:00 pm

  03.18.20

• Lecture

  (Silsila Spring 2020 Lecture Series, Maghrib: Arts of the Islamic West) The Making of Islamic North Africa: Conquest, Conversion and Cultural Change, by Corisande Fenwick, University College of London

  New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

  New York

  6:30 pm

  03.11.20

• Lecture

  The Ninth Bahari Foundation Lecture in Iranian Art and Culture A History of Miniature Painting between the 1540s and 1560s in Central Asia , with Dr Karin Rührdanz, Curator Emerita, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

  Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House (first floor, room 108)

  Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

  7:00 pm

  03.11.20

• Lecture

  On Photographic Monumentalism in Qajar Iran and Ottoman Turkey, with Ali Behdad, UCLA, California

  612 Schermerhorn, Columbia University

  New York

  6:00 pm

  03.09.20

• Lecture

  Humorous Art Practices in the Contemporary Middle East: Reacting to Cultural Formulation, with Dr. Hamid Keshmirshekan, Senior Teaching Fellow (SOAS)/ Barakat Senior Fellow, KRC, Oxford University

  Russell Square: College Buildings Room 4426

  London WC1H 0XG

  5:30 pm

  03.05.20

• Lecture

  Between Khurasan, Iraq, Egypt and al-Andalus: New Thoughts on the Processes of Commissioning Caliphal Works Under the Early Islamic Caliphates, Jochen Sokoly Associate Professor, Department of Art History, VCU Qatar

  Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 422

  485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

  03.05.20

• Lecture

  (Silsila Spring 2020 Lecture Series, Maghrib: Arts of the Islamic West) Maghribis and Manuscripts in Ottoman Cairo, by Paul Love, Al Akhawayn University

  New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

  New York

  6:30 pm

  03.04.20