Upcoming and Ongoing Events

09.26.19–04.09.20

Lecture

Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University: 2019-20 Lecture Series

Harvard University
02.07–05.03.20

Exhibition

Calligrapher to the King – Daud al-Hossaini

Museum for Islamic Art

Berlin
02.19.20

Lecture

The Maydan-e Naqsh-e Jahan in Isfahan and André Godard’s Restorations, with Sarah Piram, Iran Heritage Foundation Curator, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House (first floor, room 108)

Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

7:00 pm
02.19.20

Lecture

Ali al-Sharafi’s Nautical Atlases and Rectangular World Map: A 16th-century lingua franca of the Mediterranean & the Black Sea & its translation into a map of Eurasia and Africa, with Prof. Sonja Brentjes

Oxford Center for Islamic Studies

Oxford

5:00 pm
02.26.20

Lecture

Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage, with Prof. Nasser David Khalili

Oxford Center for Islamic Studies

Oxford

5:00 pm
03.04.20

Lecture

Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World, with Prof. Robert Hillenbrand

Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road

Oxford

5:00 pm
03.05.20

Lecture

Between Khurasan, Iraq, Egypt and al-Andalus: New Thoughts on the Processes of Commissioning Caliphal Works Under the Early Islamic Caliphates, Jochen Sokoly Associate Professor, Department of Art History, VCU Qatar

Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 422

485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

6:00 pm
03.11.20

Lecture

The Ninth Bahari Foundation Lecture in Iranian Art and Culture A History of Miniature Painting between the 1540s and 1560s in Central Asia , with Dr Karin Rührdanz, Curator Emerita, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House (first floor, room 108)

Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

7:00 pm
03.31.20

Lecture

The Creation and Representation of Order: Ghiyas al-Din Tughluq’s Tughluqabad, by Professor Sunil Kumar, Delhi University [FIRST ONE OF THE SPECIAL GUEST LECTURES FOR THE AKPIA SERIES]

Arthur M. Sackler Building, Basement Auditorium

485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

6:00 pm
04.02.20

Lecture

Reconstituting the Archive of Hazrat-i Dehli: The Sultans, the Sufis and the Riverine Plain of Delhi, by Professor Sunil Kumar, Delhi University [SECOND OF THE TWO SPECIAL GUEST LECTURES FOR THE AKPIA SERIES]

Arthur M. Sackler Building, Basement Auditorium

485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

6:00 pm
04.09.20

Lecture

Habsburg Alba Amicorum in Ottoman Constantinople, by Robyn Radway, Assistant Professor of History, Central European University

Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 422

485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

6:00 pm
04.22.20

Lecture

The Qur’ans of Uljaytu, with Dr Alison Ohta Director, Royal Asiatic Society, London

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House (first floor, room 108)

Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

7:00 pm
04.23.20

Lecture

Qusayr 'Amra: The Pandora's Box of Early Islamic Aesthetics, by Nadia Ali, Faculty Fellow, Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University

Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 422

485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

6:00 pm
05.13.20

Lecture

ART AND OIL: Calouste Gulbenkian and his Collection of Islamic Art, with Dr Jessica Hallett, Curator, Early Modern Middle East, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House (first floor, room 108)

Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

7:00 pm
06.10.20

Lecture

Architects & Astrolabes: Islamic Art & Science in Medici Florence, with Dr Glaire Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art, University of Edinburgh

Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House (first floor, room 108)

Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

7:00 pm

Past events

Book Launch

War and Peace in Medieval Middle East, eds. Mathieu Eychenne, Stephane Pradines, Abbes Zouache

Atrium Conference Room, Aga Khan Centre, 10 Handyside Street

London N1C 4DN
6:00 pm
01.09.20

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