Upcoming and Ongoing Events

• 10.29.18–03.24.19

  Exhibition

  Clouds and Gold Dust: Decorated Papers from the Ettinghausen Collection

  The Met Fifth Avenue

  New York

• 11.02.18–03.24.19

  Exhibition

  Garden Paradise: The Magnificent Safavid Garden Carpet from the Burrell Collection, Glasgow

  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

  Texas

• 03.27.19

  Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Beate Fricke, Miracles of Mediation: Still-Life, Liturgical Vessels, and Processions at Cordoba

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

  6:30 pm

• 04.03.19

  Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Martina Rugiadi, Transmitting Potential: Makers and Marbles in Ghazni, Afghanistan

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

  6:30 pm

• 04.04.19

  Lecture

  AKPIA Lecture Series: Ridha Moumni, The Uses of Antiquities: Archaeology, Museums, and Diplomacy in Pre-colonial Tunisia

  Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

  Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

• 04.12.19

  Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Jaś Elsner, Digital Reproduction and the Artemidorus Papyrus

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

  6:30 pm

• 04.17.19

  Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Stephen Sheehi, Refusing the 1948 Partition of the Sensible: Decolonial Palestinian Photography

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

  6:30 pm

• 04.25.19

  Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Elizabeth Lambourn, Material Cultures of Sitting and Sleeping in the Indian Ocean World

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

  6:30 pm

• 04.25.19

  Lecture

  Ainsley Cameron, The World the Emperor Would Have Liked, Not That It Actually Was: Textiles, Dress, and Court in a 19th Century Mughal Painting

  University of Virginia

  Charlottesville

  6:30 pm

• 04.26.19

  Workshop

  Cities Workshop: Makli/Thatta

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

• 05.01.19

  Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Webb Keane, The Clash of Semiotic Ideologies and the Ontological Turn Viewed from Indonesian Islam

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

  6:30 pm

Past events

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• Lecture

  Simon Rettig, Sultan Ahmad Jalayir and his Manuscripts: New Directions in the Persian Arts of the Book around 1400

  University of Virginia

  Charlottesville

  6:00 pm

  03.21.19

• Lecture

  AKPIA Lecture Series: Yves Porter, The Concept of ‘Persianate’ as Applied to Delhi Sultanate Architecture and Décor

  Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

  Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

  03.14.19

• Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Brinkley Messick, Spaces of Knowledge: Material Histories of Shari'a Texts

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

  6:30 pm

  03.13.19

• Lecture

  The Eighth Bahari Lecture in Iranian Art and Culture The Qajar Art in Georgian National Museums Dr Irina Koshoridze

  Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS

  SOAS, London

  7:00 pm

  03.13.19

• Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Margaret Graves, The Intellect of Hand-Making, Meaning, and Thinking in Medieval Plastic Arts

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

  6:30 pm

  03.06.19

• Lecture

  AKPIA Lecture Series: Gül Kale, Drawings and Models: Architectural Processes in a Seventeenth Century Book on Ottoman Architecture

  Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

  Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

  02.21.19

• Lecture

  SOAS Islamic Art Circle, Melanie Gibson, A Reappraisal of Timurid Ceramics

  Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS

  London

  7:00 pm

  02.20.19

• Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Giulia Paoletti, On Replication: Glass Painting and Photography in Senegal (1890-1960)

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

  6:30 pm

  02.18.19

• Special Event

  Majlis 2019

  Silsila Center for Material Histories, New York University

  by RSVP to the HIAA Secretary only

  3:00 pm

  02.15.19

  Sponsored by HIAA

• Lecture

  Christiane Gruber, The Praiseworthy One: Devotional Images of the Prophet Muhammad in Islamic Traditions

  John Cotton Dana Library, Rutgers University

  Newark, New Jersey

  4:00 pm

  02.12.19

• Lecture

  York Islamic Art Circle: Peyvand Firouzeh, The Poetics of Retreat: Meditation and Space at the Shrine in Mahan

  Berrick Saul Building

  University of York

  6:30 pm

  02.12.19

• Special Event

  Islamic Archaeology Day

  University College

  London

  11:00 am

  02.02.19