Upcoming and Ongoing Events

03.03.17–01.26.18

Exhibition

Imperial Threads: Motifs and Artisans from Turkey, Iran and India

Museum of Islamic Art Doha

Qatar
04.26–10.27.17

Exhibition

Discarded History: The Genizah of Medieval Cairo

Cambridge University Library

United Kingdom
04.30.17–01.27.18

Exhibition

Arts of Islamic Lands: Selections from The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait

Museum of Fine Arts

Houston
05.04–12.09.17

Exhibition

About Face: People, Animals, and Mythical Beings in Islamic Art

Smith College Museum of Art

Northampton, Massachusetts
05.19.17–06.02.18

Exhibition

Beyond Borders

Whitworth Gallery of Art

Manchester
06.30–09.27.17

Exhibition

Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet: Contemporary Persians—The Mohammed Afkhami Collection

The Museum of Fine Arts

Houston
07.12–09.22.17

Exhibition

Buildings That Fill My Eye: Architectural Heritage of Yemen

Brunei Gallery, SOAS

London
08.25.17–01.06.18

Exhibition

Technologies of the Image: Art in 19th-Century Iran

University Research Gallery, Harvard Art Museums

Cambridge, MA
09.10–12.21.17

Exhibition

Dressing the "Stans". Textiles, dress and jewellery from Central Asia

The Textile Research Centre

Leiden, The Netherlands
09.17.17–02.12.18

Exhibition

Clay Between Two Seas: From the Abbasid Court to Puebla de los Angeles

The Crow Collection of Asian Art

Dallas, TX
09.21.17

Lecture

Anila Quayyum Agha, All the Flowers Are for Me

Cincinnati Art Museum

Ohio

7:00 pm
09.23.17–01.21.18

Exhibition

Arts of the East: Highlights of Islamic Art from the Bruschettini Collection

Aga Khan Museum

Toronto
09.25.17–05.07.18

Exhibition

Portable Storage: Tribal Weavings from the Collection of William and Inger Ginsberg

Met Fifth Avenue

New York
09.28–09.29.17

Conference

Libraries in the Manuscript Age: East and West

Collège de France

Paris
09.28–09.29.17

Forum

Comparative Persianate Aesthetics Symposium

Center for the Study of Asia, Boston University

Massachusetts
10.05.17

Lecture

AKPIA Lecture Series: Keelan Overton, The St. Andrews Qur’an Ongoing: Intervention and Biography between Iran and India

Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

Cambridge, MA

5:30 pm
10.09.17

Forum

Naẓar: Ways of Seeing in Islamic Cultures

University of Adelaide

Australia
10.10–10.12.17

Conference

Museums in Arabia 2017

Bahrain National Museum

Bahrain
10.11.17

Lecture

Tom Nickson, The Palace of Pedro I in Seville, 'very much like the residence of the Muslim kings'?

Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS

London

7:00 pm
10.19.17

Lecture

Sami de Giosa, A Return to Arabian Art and Architecture in Cairo at the Beginning of the 20th Century: The Patronage of Prince Mohammed Ali Tewfik

MBI Ali Jaber Building, SOAS

London

5:30 pm
10.19.17

Lecture

Pedram Khosronejad, Royal Lens: Nasser al-Din Shah and the People of his Harem

University of California

Santa Barbara

1:30 pm
10.19.17

Lecture

AKPIA Lecture Series: Helen Philon, Architecture on the Edge of the Muslim World: The Deccan during the 14th and 15th centuries

Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

Cambridge, MA

5:30 pm
11.01–11.03.17

Conference

Islamic Art: Past, Present and Future 7th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Richmond
11.02.17

Lecture

AKPIA Lecture Series: Satoshi Kawamoto, On the Eve of Empire: Early Ottoman Palaces in Edirne and Istanbul

Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

Cambridge, MA

5:30 pm
11.16.17

Lecture

AKPIA Lecture Series: Finbarr Barry Flood, Globalism Before Europe? Arabia, India and the Architecture of Medieval Ethiopia

Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S010

Cambridge, MA

5:30 pm
01.10.18

Lecture

Simon Rettig, The Calligrapher, the Painter, and the Patron: A New Perspective on the Freer Khusraw u Shirin (Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture in Islamic Art and Culture)

Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS

London
02.15.18

Lecture

AKPIA Lecture Series: Mounia Chekhab Abudaya, Ottoman Devotional Manuscripts: Study of a Corpus from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S020

Cambridge, MA

5:30 pm
03.01.18

Lecture

AKPIA Lecture Series: Rocco Rante, Evolution of Settlements and Socio-Economic Features in the Bukhara Oasis between Antiquity and Medieval Period

Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S020

Cambridge, MA

5:30 pm
03.22.18

Lecture

AKPIA Lecture Series: Belgin Turan Özkaya, Itinerant Objects: British Museum and the Ottoman Response to Antiquity

Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S020

Cambridge, MA

5:30 pm
04.05.18

Lecture

AKPIA Lecture Series: Neşe Gurallar, Kars: Russian Modernity on East Anatolia (1877-1917)

Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room S020

Cambridge, MA

5:30 pm

Past events

Conference

Exploring Contemporary Muslim Art, Culture, and Heritage in Britain

University of Birmingham

Birmingham

09.14.17
Lecture

Mary McWilliams, Farshid Emami, and Mira Xenia Schwerda: Lacquer, Lithography, and Photography: Image-Making in 19th-Century Iran

Harvard Art Museums

Cambridge, MA
2:00 pm
09.12.17
Forum

International Symposium on Heinrich Friedrich von Diez

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin

Berlin

09.06–09.07.17
Lecture

Omniya Abdel Barr, The Cairo We Lost

The Mosaic Rooms

London
7:00 pm
08.30.17
Exhibition

Powder and Damask: Islamic Arms and Armour from the Collection of Fadel al-Mansoori

Museum of Islamic Art Doha

Qatar

08.26.17
Lecture

Professor Trevor Marchand, Yemen's Architectural Heritage in Peril

British Museum

London
2:00 pm
08.04.17
Conference

Occult science and intercultural interchange in a royal Seljuk manuscript – MS Paris Persan 174

University of St Andrews, Centre for Anatolian and Eastern Mediterranean Studies

St Andrews, United Kingdom

07.07.17
Lecture

Zeynep Çelik, Asar-ı Atik: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Arkeoloji Siyaseti

ANAMED Kütüphanesi (Library of the ANAMED Inst.)

Istanbul
2:00 pm
07.06.17
Conference

Thirteenth Colloquium of the Ernst Herzfeld Society: Reassessing Nineteenth-Century Art in Islamic Countries

Department of Art History, University of Vienna

Austria

07.05–07.08.17
Forum

The Islamicate World Facing its Past: History, Heritage, and Archaeology

Louvre Museum, Auditorium

Paris
6:00 am
06.28.17
Forum

Islamic Art in the Museum today: An Opportunity?

Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Main Building

Lisbon
2:00 pm
06.28.17
Lecture

Simon O'Meara, Haptic Vision: Making Surface Sense of Islamic Material Culture

Asia House

London
12:00 pm
06.28.17

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Upcoming and Ongoing Events

AKPIA Lecture Series: Keelan Overton, The St. Andrews Qur’an Ongoing: Intervention and Biography between Iran and India

Sami de Giosa, A Return to Arabian Art and Architecture in Cairo at the Beginning of the 20th Century: The Patronage of Prince Mohammed Ali Tewfik

Pedram Khosronejad, Royal Lens: Nasser al-Din Shah and the People of his Harem

AKPIA Lecture Series: Helen Philon, Architecture on the Edge of the Muslim World: The Deccan during the 14th and 15th centuries

AKPIA Lecture Series: Satoshi Kawamoto, On the Eve of Empire: Early Ottoman Palaces in Edirne and Istanbul

AKPIA Lecture Series: Finbarr Barry Flood, Globalism Before Europe? Arabia, India and the Architecture of Medieval Ethiopia

Simon Rettig, The Calligrapher, the Painter, and the Patron: A New Perspective on the Freer Khusraw u Shirin (Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture in Islamic Art and Culture)

AKPIA Lecture Series: Mounia Chekhab Abudaya, Ottoman Devotional Manuscripts: Study of a Corpus from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha

AKPIA Lecture Series: Rocco Rante, Evolution of Settlements and Socio-Economic Features in the Bukhara Oasis between Antiquity and Medieval Period

AKPIA Lecture Series: Belgin Turan Özkaya, Itinerant Objects: British Museum and the Ottoman Response to Antiquity

AKPIA Lecture Series: Neşe Gurallar, Kars: Russian Modernity on East Anatolia (1877-1917)

Past events

Occult science and intercultural interchange in a royal Seljuk manuscript – MS Paris Persan 174

Zeynep Çelik, Asar-ı Atik: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu'nda Arkeoloji Siyaseti

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