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

• 11.07.19–01.26.20

  Exhibition

  Capturing Iran’s Past Fotokunst – PhotoArt – هنر عکاسی

  Pergamonmuseum

  Berlin, Germany

• 01.24.20

  Symposium

  Jerusalem in Exile: Meaning and Abstraction in Arab and Islamic Art (Symposium, Book Launch and Exhibition Jerusalem in Exile to celebrate the life and work of Kamal Boullata and his artistic inheritance)

  Frankopan Hall, West Court, Jesus College

  Cambridge, CB5 8BL, United Kingdom

  1:00 pm

• 02.01.20

  Special Event

  Islamic Archaeology Day at UCL

  31-34 Gordon Square

  London WC1H 0PY

  11:00 am

• 02.19.20

  Lecture

  The Maydan-e Naqsh-e Jahan in Isfahan and André Godard’s Restorations, with Sarah Piram, Iran Heritage Foundation Curator, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

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

  Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

  7:00 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

• 03.11.20

  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

• 03.31.20

  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

• 04.02.20

  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

• 04.09.20

  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

• 04.22.20

  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

• 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

• 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

  Shown in a life-like way (or ‘no great art therein’): Ottoman costume albums and the art of self-representation, with Ünver Rüstem

  Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York

  York YO10 5DD United Kingdom

  6:30 pm

  01.16.20

• Lecture

  Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture in Islamic Art and Culture--The First Congregational Mosque of Córdoba, with Dr Heather Ecker, Marguerite S. Hoffman and Thomas W. Lentz Curator of Islamic and Medieval Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

  Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, Brunei Gallery Building

  SOAS University of London, Russell Square London, WC1H 0XG

  7:00 pm

  01.15.20

• Book Launch

  War and Peace in Medieval Middle East, eds. Mathieu Eychenne, Stephane Pradines, Abbes Zouache

  Atrium Conference Room, Aga Khan Centre, 10 Handyside Street

  London N1C 4DN

  6:00 pm

  01.09.20

• Lecture

  From Biton Kulubali to El Haji Umar Tal-The Rise & Fall of the Bamana Empire of Segu by Alisa LaGamma, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

  New York

  6:30 pm

  12.10.19

• Workshop

  CITIES WORKSHOP 4: SHIRAZ at Silsila: Center for Material Histories, NYU

  4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

  New York

  9:30 am

  12.06.19

• Lecture

  Towards an Understanding of Early Islamic Architectural Ornament: Ancient Near Eastern Influences at Samarra, by Ann Shafer, Independent scholar; Adjunct Assistant Professor, SUNY-FIT; Harvard AKPIA Associate

  Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 422

  485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

  12.05.19

• Lecture

  Of Love and Bondage-Service, Friendship and Material Ties in Timurid Hindustan, by Mana Kia, Columbia University

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

  New York

  6:30 pm

  12.04.19

• Lecture

  Re-thinking ‘National Style’: Actors, Tendencies and References, by Müjde Dila Gümüş Researcher, Istanbul University; Harvard AKPIA Associate

  Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 422

  485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

  11.21.19

• Conference

  Decentring the Flaneur: Global Histories of Walking the Early Modern City

  Lecture Theatre 1, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, Penton Rise, King’s Cross, London, WC1X 9EW

  London

  5:00 pm

  11.15–11.16.19

• Conference

  The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art (8th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art)

  VCUarts Qatar/VCU School of the Arts

  Doha, Qatar

  11.10–11.11.19

• Lecture

  Transforming Curatorial Practices for the Evolving Global Museum: The British Museum’s Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World, Dr. Ladan Akbarnia

  Museum of Fine Arts

  Houston

  5:00 pm

  11.09.19

• Lecture

  Tiles that tell Persian Tales, with Lisa Golombek, Curator Emeritus, Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)

  Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto (Jackman Building, room 530)

  Toronto

  11.07.19