Upcoming and Ongoing Events

09.23.20

Lecture

"CONTINUITIES AND CROSSINGS - EAST AFRICAN ILLUMINATED QUR'ANS FROM FAZA AND SIYU" Zulfikar Hirji, York University, Toronto

Online (from New York City)

Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

12:30 pm
09.25–10.23.20

Conference

Art History, Postcolonialism, and the Global Turn

Online
09.30.20

Lecture

"ITEMS OF VALUE IN THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN" Stephanie Wynne-Jones, University of York

Online (from New York City)

Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

12:30 pm
10.07.20

Lecture

"BROKER STATES & THE ARTICULATION OF MEDIEVAL AFRICA WITH THE ISLAMIC WORLD" François-Xavier Fauvelle, Collège de France

Online (from New York City)

Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

12:30 pm
10.14.20

Lecture

"THE PALACE OF KING NJOYA - COLONIALISM, MODERNITY, AND ISLAM" Mark DeLancey, DePaul University

Online (from New York City)

Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

12:30 pm
10.20.20

Lecture

"RELATIONS BETWEEN THE MAGHREB AND THE BILĀD AL-SŪDĀN AT THE TIME OF THE BERBER EMPIRES" Mehdi Ghouirgate, Bordeaux-Montaigne University

Online (from New York City)

Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

12:30 pm
10.22.20

Lecture

"TRANS-SAHARAN SLAVERY AND GNAWA GUINBRI: FROM CONCEALMENT TO EXHIBITION" Cynthia Becker, Boston University

Online (from New York City)

Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

12:30 pm
10.28.20

Lecture

"THE TARIKH AL-FATTASH AND THE MAKING OF THE CALIPHATE OF HAMDALLAHI" Mauro Nobili, University of Illinois

Online (from New York City)

Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

12:30 pm
11.04.20

Lecture

"BECOMING MUSLIM. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ISLAMISATION AND TRADE IN EASTERN ETHIOPIA" Timothy Insoll, University of Exeter

Online (from New York City)

Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

12:30 pm
11.11.20

Lecture

"DETERMINANT INDETERMINACIES - ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF A SENEGALESE SUFI SAINT" Allen F. Roberts, UCLA

Online (from New York City)

Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

12:30 pm
11.18.20

Lecture

"PAPERS OF ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS AS GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATORS" Anne Regourd, CNRS, Paris

Online (from New York City)

Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

12:30 pm
11.24.20

Lecture

"TIMBUKTU, THE SCHOLAR, AND RULERS: AḤMAD BĀBĀ TINBUKTI'S JALB AL-NI'MA WA DAF' AL-NIQMA BI MUJĀNABAT AL-WULĀT AL-ẒALAMA (HOW TO OBTAIN BLESSING AND AVOID DIVINE ANGER BY AVOIDING UNJUST RULERS)" Shamil Jeppie, University of Cape Town

Online (from New York City)

Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

12:30 pm
12.02.20

Lecture

"GOLD WORK: TECHNIQUES AND EXCHANGE ACROSS THE SAHARA" Sarah Guérin, University of Pennsylvania

Online (from New York City)

Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

12:30 pm
12.09.20

Lecture

"AFRICA IN THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD - THE PROBLEM OF MARGINS IN ART HISTORY" Prita Meier, NYU

Online (from New York City)

Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

12:30 pm

Past events

Lecture

"CONTINUITIES AND CROSSINGS - EAST AFRICAN ILLUMINATED QUR'ANS FROM FAZA AND SIYU" Zulfikar Hirji, York University, Toronto

Online (from New York City)

Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories
12:30 pm
09.23.20
Lecture

"SWAHILI MOSQUES BETWEEN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA AND THE INDIAN OCEAN" Stéphane Pradines, Aga Khan University, London

Online (from New York City)

Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories
12:30 pm
09.16.20
Lecture

"THE LOST ARCHIVE: TRACES OF A CALIPHATE IN A CAIRO SYNAGOGUE" Marina Rustow, Princeton University

Online (from New York City)

Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories
12:30 pm
09.09.20
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
06.10.20
Seminar

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

Russell Square: College Buildings, Room 4426

London
5:30 pm
05.14.20
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
05.13.20
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
05.06.20
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
04.30.20
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
04.23.20
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
04.22.20

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