Upcoming and Ongoing Events

• 10.28.20

  Lecture

  "THE TARIKH AL-FATTASH AND THE MAKING OF THE CALIPHATE OF HAMDALLAHI" Mauro Nobili, University of Illinois

  Online (from New York City)

  Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

  12:30 pm

• 11.04.20

  Lecture

  "BECOMING MUSLIM. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ISLAMISATION AND TRADE IN EASTERN ETHIOPIA" Timothy Insoll, University of Exeter

  Online (from New York City)

  Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

  12:30 pm

• 11.11.20

  Lecture

  "DETERMINANT INDETERMINACIES - ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF A SENEGALESE SUFI SAINT" Allen F. Roberts, UCLA

  Online (from New York City)

  Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

  12:30 pm

• 11.18.20

  Lecture

  "PAPERS OF ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS AS GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATORS" Anne Regourd, CNRS, Paris

  Online (from New York City)

  Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

  12:30 pm

• 11.24.20

  Lecture

  "TIMBUKTU, THE SCHOLAR, AND RULERS: AḤMAD BĀBĀ TINBUKTI'S JALB AL-NI'MA WA DAF' AL-NIQMA BI MUJĀNABAT AL-WULĀT AL-ẒALAMA (HOW TO OBTAIN BLESSING AND AVOID DIVINE ANGER BY AVOIDING UNJUST RULERS)" Shamil Jeppie, University of Cape Town

  Online (from New York City)

  Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

  12:30 pm

• 12.01.20

  Seminar

  Al Waleed bin Talal Seminar--"Competing with the Saints: Dynastic Burial Practices and Cults in the Medieval Western Maghrib" by Amira Bennison (University of Cambridge)

  Cambridge, MA

  via Zoom, RSVP required

  3:00 pm

• 12.02.20

  Lecture

  "GOLD WORK: TECHNIQUES AND EXCHANGE ACROSS THE SAHARA" Sarah Guérin, University of Pennsylvania

  Online (from New York City)

  Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

  12:30 pm

• 12.09.20

  Lecture

  "AFRICA IN THE INDIAN OCEAN WORLD - THE PROBLEM OF MARGINS IN ART HISTORY" Prita Meier, NYU

  Online (from New York City)

  Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories

  12:30 pm

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  Art History, Postcolonialism, and the Global Turn

  Online

  09.25–10.23.20

• 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