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

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• Conference

  HIAA-sponsored panel also scheduled to take place at CAA 2020, Chicago-- Interwar Islamic Arts

  Astoria Room

  Hilton Chicago

  10:30 am

  02.14.20

  Sponsored by HIAA

• Conference

  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