Upcoming and Ongoing Events

02.25.21

Lecture

The Late Petra Project: settlement in post-urban Petra, by Micaela Sinibaldi (Shanghai International Studies University – Cardiff University)

Institut français du Proche-Orient

3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut

3:00 pm
02.25.21

Special Event

"What Can Islamic Law teach us about Islamic Art and Architecture?” Ruba Kana’an, in discussion with Marcus Milwright

Online, 5:30 PST

5:30 pm
02.26.21

Special Event

Color, Expectations and Authenticity in Oriental Carpets, Walter B. Denny in Conversation with The Textile Museum Journal guest editor Mary Dusenbury

The Textile Museum Journal

Online

12:00 pm
03.04.21

Lecture

Jerba: Tracking the Impact of the So-Called Justinianic Plague, 560-750 CE, by Renata Holod

The American Institute for Maghrib Studies

Online, 18:00 (Oran, Tunis), 12:00 EST, 11:00 CST, 9:00 PST

6:00 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
03.11.21

Lecture

The medieval heritage of Anfeh and its neighbourhood (North Lebanon), by Patricia Antaki (University of Balamand)

Institut français du Proche-Orient

3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut

3:00 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)
03.25.21

Lecture

The Umayyad and early Abbasid Reservoir-Enclosure of ‘Ayn Sawdā (Azraq Oasis, Jordan), by Lorraine Abu-Azizeh, Julie Bonnéric, Barbara Couturaud, Aurélien Stavy (Ifpo)

Institut français du Proche-Orient

3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut

3:00 pm
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
04.08.21

Lecture

Restore and rehabilitate Al-Qastal mosque, by Ahmad Lash (Department of Antiquities of Jordan)

Institut français du Proche-Orient

3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut

3:00 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)
04.22.21

Lecture

Crossing Medieval and Islamic Studies in Jordan. Medieval Petra and Shawbak in cc. 11-14: a Light Archaeology, by Michele Nucciotti (University of Florence)

Institut français du Proche-Orient

3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut

3:00 pm
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
05.06.21

Lecture

Umm as-Surab (north-eastern Jordan): Settlement Dynamics in the Islamic periods. New data from Building Archaeology, by Piero Gilento (CNRS UMR 7041 ArScAn – Ifpo)

Institut français du Proche-Orient

3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut

3:00 pm
05.20.21

Lecture

Ablution rooms of mosques in medieval Near East, by Marie-Odile Rousset (CNRS UMR 5133 Archéorient)

Institut français du Proche-Orient

3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut

3:00 pm
06.03.21

Lecture

Overview on the archeological research in the Shouf Mountains from late Antiquity to the Maan dynasty, by Wissam Khalil (Lebanese University)

Institut français du Proche-Orient

3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut

3:00 pm
06.17.21

Lecture

Recent landscape archaeology in the Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve, Kesrouan, Lebanon: the medieval to modern periods, by Stephen McPhillips (Association for the Protection of Jabal Moussa)

Institut français du Proche-Orient

3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut

3:00 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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