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• 01.27.21

  Lecture

  Silsila Lecture and Discussion Series: TELLING STORIES: THE ART OF NARRATION IN THE WORK OF KATIA KAMELI, Katia Kameli, Artist; Omar Berrada, Independent Scholar & Finbarr Barry Flood

  NYU

  New York, Online

  12:30 pm

• 02.03.21

  Lecture

  Silsila Lecture and Discussion Series: AFRICAN MUSLIMS IN BRAZIL AND LATIN AMERICA: AN ANTERIOR HISTORY, Michael Gomez, NYU & Margarita Rosa, Princeton University

  NYU

  New York, Online

  12:30 pm

• 02.04.21

  Lecture

  The Intellect of the Hand: Making and Thinking the Medieval Islamic Art of the Object, by Margaret Graves, Associate Professor of Islamic Art, Department of Art History, Indiana University

  Harvard, AKPIA Lecture

  Cambridge, MA (Online)

• 02.19.21

  Lecture

  Silsila Lecture and Discussion Series: ISLAM AND THE DEVOTIONAL OBJECT: A DISCUSSION, Richard McGregor, Vanderbilt University; Azfar Moin, UT Austin; Wendy Shaw, Freie Universität, Berlin; Adam Bursi, Utrecht University & Finbarr Barry Flood, Silsila/NYU

  NYU

  New York, Online

  12:30 pm

• 03.05.21

  Lecture

  Silsila Lecture and Discussion Series: YUSUF AL-NABHANI AND CONSERVATIVE MODERNITY IN THE LATE OTTOMAN PERIOD, Amal Ghazal, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies; Ahmed El Shamsy, University of Chicago; Stephennie Mulder, UT Austin & Finbarr Barry Flood

  NYU

  New York, Online

  12:30 pm

• 03.10.21

  Lecture

  Silsila Lecture and Discussion Series: CULTURAL CONNECTIONS BETWEEN LOUISIANA AND WEST AFRICA: FROM FOOD TO THE BLUES, Ibrahima Seck, Whitney Plantation Museum/University Cheikh Anta Diop of Dakar

  NYU

  New York, Online

  12:30 pm

• 03.25.21

  Lecture

  The Visual and Material Culture of Rayy, as Revealed through the Excavations Headed by Erich Schmidt in the late 1930s, by Renata Holod, College of Women Class of 1963 Professor in the Humanities, History of Art Department, University of Pennsylvania

  Harvard, AKPIA Lecture

  Cambridge, MA (Online)

• 03.26.21

  Lecture

  Silsila Lecture and Discussion Series: THE MAQAMAT TRADITION AND THE PRE-MODERN ROOTS OF ARAB MODERNISM, Maurice Pomerantz, NYU; Matthew Keegan, Barnard University; Saleem al-Bahloly, UCSB; Elizabeth Rauh, UIC & Anneka Lenssen, UC Berkeley

  NYU

  New York, Online

  12:30 pm

• 04.09.21

  Lecture

  Silsila Lecture and Discussion Series: FIRST IMPRESSIONS: PRINT MEDIA IN THE MODERN ISLAMIC WORLD, Mira Schwerda, Harvard University; Hala Auji, AUB; Yasemin Gencer, Indiana University; Aditi Chandra, UC-Merced; Elizabeth Rauh, UIC

  NYU

  New York, Online

  12:30 pm

• 04.21.21

  Lecture

  Silsila Lecture and Discussion Series: ARCHITECTURES OF CO-EXISTENCE: BUILDING PLURALISM, Nebahat Avcioğlu, Hunter College; Azra Akšamija, MIT & Maryam Eskandari, MIIM Designs

  NYU

  New York, Online

  12:30 pm

• 04.22.21

  Lecture

  Imagining a World: Selfhood and empire in Safavid Iran, by Kishwar Rizvi, Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of the History of Art, Yale University

  Harvard, AKPIA Lecture

  Cambridge, MA (Online)

• 05.05.21

  Lecture

  Silsila Lecture and Discussion Series: THE SULTANS' TOMBS OF BANDA ACEH - A HISTORIOGRAPHY OF INDONESIAN ISLAMIC ART, Mirjam Shatanawi, Reinwardt Academy/Amsterdam University of the Arts

  NYU

  New York, Online

  12:30 pm

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  AMCA Online Conversation with Hala Auji (moderated by Pamela Karimi & Elizabeth Rauh)

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  12:00 pm

  12.21.20

• 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

  12.09.20

• 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

  12.02.20

• Seminar

  Al Waleed bin Talal Seminar--"Competing with the Saints: Dynastic Burial Practices and Cults in the Medieval Western Maghrib" by Amira Bennison (University of Cambridge)

  Cambridge, MA

  via Zoom, RSVP required

  3:00 pm

  12.01.20

• 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

  11.24.20

• Special Event

  Iconoclasm, Then and Now. A discussion of Aaron Tugendhaft’s The Idols of ISIS: From Assyria to the Internet, with Christiane Gruber

  ANAMED, Koc University, Istanbul

  6:30 pm Istanbul | 4:30 pm Berlin | 9:30 am Chicago | 10:30 am Michigan

  11.23.20

• 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

  11.18.20

• Special Event

  Islamic Art on the Margins, A Conversation between Imran bin Tajudeen & Sana Mirza

  The Middle East and Islamic Studies Program at University of California Riverside

  Online

  5:00 pm

  11.16.20

  Sponsored by HIAA

• Lecture

  The Masonic Muhammad: Modern Franco-Iranian Visual Encounters in Prophetic Iconography, by Christiane Gruber (University of Michigan)

  Los Angeles (Online)

  Center for Near Eastern Studies, Islamic Studies, Fowler Museum at UCLA

  12:00 pm

  11.16.20

• 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

  11.11.20

• Lecture

  Reconquest of Hagia Sophia: Contested Museum, Conquered Monument, by Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir

  Online

  Temple University, Philadelphia

  11:30 am

  11.11.20

• Roundtable

  Hagia Sophia’s Conversions: Reflections on the Political, Temporal, and Aesthetic Dimensions of Heritage, with Emily Neumeier

  Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Gottingen (Online)

  RSVP email to Cziesielsky@mmg.mpg.de

  6:00 pm

  11.10.20