Upcoming and Ongoing Events

05.10–09.30.18

Exhibition

Ottoman Arcadia: The Hamidian Expedition to the Land of Tribal Roots (1886)

ANAMED, Merkez Han

Istanbul
06.23–09.30.18

Exhibition

Il Montefeltro e l'Oriente Islamico: Urbino, 1430-1550

Galleria Nazionale delle Marche-Palazzo Ducale di Urbino

Italy
07.13–10.14.18

Exhibition

Buildings that Fill My Eye: The Architectural Heritage of Yemen

Museum of Islamic Art

Berlin
09.01–12.23.18

Exhibition

A Nomad's Art: Kilims of Anatolia

Textile Museum, George Washington University

Washington, DC
09.07.18–01.27.19

Exhibition

Collecting Calligraphy: Arts of the Islamic World

Cincinnati Art Museum

Ohio
09.08.18–03.03.19

Exhibition

Splendour and Bliss: Arts from the Islamic World

Gemeente Museum

The Hague
09.22.18–01.13.19

Exhibition

Armenia!

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York
09.22.18–01.06.19

Exhibition

Contemporary Muslim Fashions

de Young Museum

San Francisco
09.22.18–02.10.19

Exhibition

Transforming Traditions: The Arts of 19th-century Iran

Aga Khan Museum

Toronto
09.26.18

Lecture

Silsila Lectures: Lyla Halstad, Amuletic Practice and Pilgrimage: A Block Printed Arabic Amulet Scroll Depicting Mecca and Medina

Silsila Center, NYU

New York

6:30 pm
10.02.18

Lecture

Miyuki Aoki Girardelli, Going West to Find the "East": Japanese Architect Ito Chuta's Travels Throughout the Ottoman Empire and His Thought on "Oriental/Toyo" Architecture

FedEx Center, Room 109, UNC Chapel Hill

North Carolina

6:00 pm
10.03.18

Lecture

Silsila Lectures: Roberta Giunta, Islamic-Magic Therapeutic Bowls

Silsila Center, NYU

New York

6:30 pm
10.10.18

Lecture

SIlsila Lectures: Christopher Braun, Figural Representations in the Arabic Magical Tradition

Silsila Center, NYU

New York

6:30 pm
10.10.18

Lecture

SOAS Islamic Art Circle: Moya Carey, Iran in South Kensington: Collecting "Persian" Art and Design for the V&A

SOAS

London
10.11–10.12.18

Conference

Middle Eastern Crafts: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Victoria and Albert Museum

London

10:30 am
10.11.18

Lecture

AKPIA Lecture Series: Roy Mottahedeh, Medieval Kashan: City of Scholars and Artisan

Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

Cambridge, MA

6:00 pm
10.18.18

Lecture

Silsila Lectures: Christiane Gruber, The Prophet as Sacred Spring: Late Ottoman Hilye Bottles

Silsila Center, NYU

New York

6:30 pm
10.19.18–01.06.19

Exhibition

The Fabric of India

Cincinnati Art Museum

Ohio
10.25.18

Lecture

York Islamic Art Circle: Owen Wright, Seeing Sound

Berrick Saul Auditorium, University of York

United Kingdom

6:30 pm
10.29.18–03.24.19

Exhibition

Clouds and Gold Dust: Decorated Papers from the Ettinghausen Collection

The Met Fifth Avenue

New York
10.30.18

Lecture

Silsila Lectures: Imran bin Tajudeen, Transcultural Agency in Javanese Mosques

Silsila Center, NYU

New York

6:30 pm
10.31.18

Lecture

Silsila Lectures: Hiba Abid, Remembering Medina and Invoking the Prophet Through the Images of the Dala'il al-Khayrat

Silsila Center, NYU

New York

6:30 pm
11.06.18

Special Event

Transforming Traditions: Curator's Tour with Ulrike al-Khamis

Aga Khan Museum

Toronto

6:30 pm
11.07.18

Lecture

Silsila Lectures: Ittai Weinryb, Votive Bodies: Wax and Beyond in Medieval Mediterranean Devotional Practices

Silsila Center, NYU

New York

6:30 pm
11.08.18

Lecture

AKPIA Lecture Series: Ünver Rüstem, Turkish Habits: Ottoman Fashion and Self-Fashioning on the World Stage

Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

Cambridge, MA

6:00 pm
11.08.18

Lecture

Silsila Lectures: Will Kwiatkowski, Royal Writing: The Architectural Inscriptions of the Bahmani Sultanate

Silsila Center, NYU

New York

6:30 pm
11.08.18

Lecture

Kaveh Askari, Photography, Cinema, and Royal Painting in Qajar Iran

Aga Khan Musuem

Toronto

1:00 pm
11.14.18

Lecture

Silsila Lectures: Adam Bursi, Matters of Taste: Sensory Experience within Early Islamic Pilgrimage

Silsila Center, NYU

New York

6:30 pm
11.18.18

Lecture

Talinn Grigor, Of Historicity and Historical (Un)Truth in Contemporary Iranian Art

Aga Khan Musuem

Toronto

1:00 pm
11.23.18–02.13.19

Exhibition

Syria Matters

Museum of Islamic Art

Doha
11.28.18

Lecture

Silsila Lectures: Clare Davies, Siah Armanjani: Everyday Magic in Iranian Modern Art

Silsila Center, NYU

New York

6:30 pm
12.05.18

Lecture

SOAS Islamic Art Circle: Ellen Kenney, Imagining Things: Damascus and Material Culture under the Mamluks

SOAS

London
12.06.18

Lecture

Bita Pourvash, Persian Art in Canada: Early Collections and Exhibitions

Aga Khan Museum

Toronto

1:00 pm
12.07.18

Workshop

Cities 2: Zafar--Material History of a Buried South Arabian City on the Eve of Islam

Silsila Center, NYU

New York

9:00 am
02.07.19

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
03.14.19

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
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

Past events

Lecture

Layla Diba, Between East and "West": The Art of Qajar Iran (1875-1925)

Aga Khan Museum

Toronto
2:00 pm
09.23.18
Lecture

AKPIA Lecture Series: Elizabeth Key Fowden, The Parthenon Mosque

Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

Cambridge, MA
6:00 pm
09.20.18
Lecture

Silsila Lectures: Guy Burak, What Do Talismanic Shirts Do in a Palace Library?

Silsila Center, NYU

New York
6:30 pm
09.20.18
Workshop

Heritage Revisited: Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe

University of Vienna, Institut for Art History

Vienna
10:00 am
09.20–09.21.18
Lecture

Silsila Lectures: Elizabeth Key Fowden, The Parthenon Mosque

Silsil Centre, NYU

New York

09.18.18
Conference

Hagia Sophia in the Long Nineteenth Century

Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio

09.14–09.15.18
Conference

(De)constructing the Spectacle: Cultural Memory, Heritage Practice & Urbanism in the UAE

Loria Center, Yale University

New Haven, CT
9:00 am
09.14.18
Lecture

Jill D'Alessandro, Contemporary Muslim Fashions: A Curatorial Walkthrough

de Young Museum

San Francisco
1:00 pm
09.06.18
Lecture

Asok Kumar Das, Birds in the Garden of Spring: Mughal Painting of Birds from Far and Near

Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya

Mumbai
6:00 pm
08.30.18
Special Event

A Recital of Classical Ottoman Court Music with Q&A

Leighton House Museum

London
6:30 pm
07.11.18
Lecture

Sam Bowker, A Dialogue of Objects: Implications of Islamic Art

National Museum of Australia

Canberra
12:30 pm
07.05.18
Special Event

From Melancholy to Euphoria: The Materialisation of Emotion in Middle Eastern Manuscripts

Sydney Myer Asia Centre

University of Melbourne
8:30 am
06.27–06.28.18

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Upcoming and Ongoing Events

Il Montefeltro e l'Oriente Islamico: Urbino, 1430-1550

Miyuki Aoki Girardelli, Going West to Find the "East": Japanese Architect Ito Chuta's Travels Throughout the Ottoman Empire and His Thought on "Oriental/Toyo" Architecture

SOAS Islamic Art Circle: Moya Carey, Iran in South Kensington: Collecting "Persian" Art and Design for the V&A

AKPIA Lecture Series: Roy Mottahedeh, Medieval Kashan: City of Scholars and Artisan

York Islamic Art Circle: Owen Wright, Seeing Sound

AKPIA Lecture Series: Ünver Rüstem, Turkish Habits: Ottoman Fashion and Self-Fashioning on the World Stage

SOAS Islamic Art Circle: Ellen Kenney, Imagining Things: Damascus and Material Culture under the Mamluks

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

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

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

Past events

AKPIA Lecture Series: Elizabeth Key Fowden, The Parthenon Mosque

(De)constructing the Spectacle: Cultural Memory, Heritage Practice & Urbanism in the UAE

Asok Kumar Das, Birds in the Garden of Spring: Mughal Painting of Birds from Far and Near

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