Past events
Lecture
"THE LOST ARCHIVE: TRACES OF A CALIPHATE IN A CAIRO SYNAGOGUE" Marina Rustow, Princeton University
Online (from New York City)
Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories
12:30 pm
09.09.20
Lecture
Architects & Astrolabes: Islamic Art & Science in Medici Florence, with Dr Glaire Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art, Univ
Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House (first f
Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG
7:00 pm
06.10.20
Seminar
Early Qur’ans from Archives of Sacred Texts, with Alba Fedeli, Universität Hamburg
Russell Square: College Buildings, Room 4426
London
5:30 pm
05.14.20
Lecture
ART AND OIL: Calouste Gulbenkian and his Collection of Islamic Art, with Dr Jessica Hallett, Curator, Early Modern Middle East,
Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House (first f
Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG
7:00 pm
05.13.20
Seminar
The 22nd Annual Toby Falk Memorial Lecture - Haludar: a meticulous observer and illustrator of natural history in Bengal, c. 179
Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Alumni Lecture Theatre
London
7:00 pm
05.06.20
Lecture
(Silsila Spring 2020 Lecture Series, Maghrib: Arts of the Islamic West) MODERN THINGS ON TRIAL-ISLAM'S GLOBAL AND MATERIAL REFOR
New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor
New York
6:30 pm
05.06.20
Forum
"MEASURE AND MEANING-A CONVERSATION" Emanuele Lugli, Stanford University and Finbarr Barry Flood, NYU
New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor
New York
6:30 pm
04.30.20
Lecture
Qusayr 'Amra: The Pandora's Box of Early Islamic Aesthetics, by Nadia Ali, Faculty Fellow, Silsila: Center for Material Historie
Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 422
485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA
6:00 pm
04.23.20
Lecture
The Qur’ans of Uljaytu, with Dr Alison Ohta Director, Royal Asiatic Society, London
Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House (first
Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG
7:00 pm
04.22.20
Lecture
(Silsila Spring 2020 Lecture Series, Maghrib: Arts of the Islamic West) Miracles of Mediation: Still-Life, Liturgical Vessels, a
New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor
New York
6:30 pm
04.22.20
Seminar
Little-explored treasures? The Indian textile collections at the British Museum, with Richard Blurton, Research Curator, Departm
Paul Webley Wing (Senate House), Alumni Lecture Theatre
London
7:00 pm
04.15.20
Workshop
The Maqamat Tradition and the Pre-Modern Roots of Arab Modernism, a workshop at Silsila, NYU
New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor
New York
6:30 pm
04.10.20
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