Upcoming and Ongoing Events

• 04.25–12.22.19

  Exhibition

  Harmony of Line and Colour: Illuminated Manuscripts, Documents, and Calligraphy in the Sadberk Hanim Museum Collection

  Sadberk Hanim Muzesi

  Istanbul

• 09.12–11.30.19

  Exhibition

  Call Me Anythng But Ordinary: Ceramics from Medieval & Modern Iran

  The Bumiller Collection

  Berlin

• 09.26.19–04.09.20

  Lecture

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

  Harvard University

• 11.21.19

  Lecture

  Re-thinking ‘National Style’: Actors, Tendencies and References, by Müjde Dila Gümüş Researcher, Istanbul University; Harvard AKPIA Associate

  Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 422

  485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

• 12.04.19

  Lecture

  Of Love and Bondage-Service, Friendship and Material Ties in Timurid Hindustan, by Mana Kia, Columbia University

  New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

  New York

  6:30 pm

• 12.05.19

  Lecture

  Towards an Understanding of Early Islamic Architectural Ornament: Ancient Near Eastern Influences at Samarra, by Ann Shafer, Independent scholar; Adjunct Assistant Professor, SUNY-FIT; Harvard AKPIA Associate

  Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 422

  485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

• 12.06.19

  Workshop

  CITIES WORKSHOP 4: SHIRAZ at Silsila: Center for Material Histories, NYU

  4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

  New York

  9:30 am

• 12.10.19

  Lecture

  From Biton Kulubali to El Haji Umar Tal-The Rise & Fall of the Bamana Empire of Segu by Alisa LaGamma, Metropolitan Museum of Art

  New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

  New York

  6:30 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

• 03.31.20

  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

• 04.23.20

  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

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  Decentring the Flaneur: Global Histories of Walking the Early Modern City

  Lecture Theatre 1, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Vernon Square, Penton Rise, King’s Cross, London, WC1X 9EW

  London

  5:00 pm

  11.15–11.16.19

• Conference

  The Seas and the Mobility of Islamic Art (8th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art)

  VCUarts Qatar/VCU School of the Arts

  Doha, Qatar

  11.10–11.11.19

• Conference

  SYMPOSIUM-What is an Islamic Garden in the 21st Century? UIUC

  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

  Department of Landscape Architecture Temple Hoyne Buell Hall 611 Lorado Taft Drive Champagne IL 61820

  09.13.19

• Conference

  Materials and Technologies in the Age of Transition: The Byzantine, Sasanian and Islamic Near East

  Wolfson College, University of Oxford

  Oxford

  07.10–07.11.19

• Conference

  Perspectives on French Colonial and Late Ottoman Cultural History” honoring the work of Zeynep Çelik at UCLA, May 30-31, 2019

  UCLA

  Los Angeles

  05.30–05.31.19

• Conference

  Negotiating the Past. Islamic Heritage in Italy and Spain

  Università Iuav di Venezia

  Italy

  9:00 am

  02.01–02.02.19

• Conference

  Perceiving Processions

  Courtauld Institute of Art

  London

  9:30 am

  11.24.18

• Conference

  al-Andalus in Motion: Travelling Concepts and Cross-Cultural Contexts

  Ilmi Etudler Dernegi

  Üsküdar, Istanbul

  11.15–11.16.18

• 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