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

Lecture

An Aesthetic Education in Sultanate India: Sound and Wonder in the Miftāḥ al-Fużalā of Shadiyabadi (British Library Or 3299), Vivek Gupta (PhD Candidate, SOAS London)

Nihon Room, Pembroke College

Cambridge
5:30 pm
02.14.20
Lecture

Conservation and Restoration Documentation as a Source in Architectural History, Igor Demchenko (GSAPP, Columbia University)

612 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University

New York
6:00 pm
02.10.20
Lecture

Shown in a life-like way (or ‘no great art therein’): Ottoman costume albums and the art of self-representation, with Ünver Rüstem

Bowland Auditorium, Berrick Saul Building, Campus West, University of York

York YO10 5DD United Kingdom
6:30 pm
01.16.20
Lecture

Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture in Islamic Art and Culture--The First Congregational Mosque of Córdoba, with Dr Heather Ecker, Marguerite S. Hoffman and Thomas W. Lentz Curator of Islamic and Medieval Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, Brunei Gallery Building

SOAS University of London, Russell Square London, WC1H 0XG
7:00 pm
01.15.20
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
12.10.19
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
12.05.19
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
12.04.19
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
11.21.19
Lecture

Transforming Curatorial Practices for the Evolving Global Museum: The British Museum’s Albukhary Foundation Gallery of the Islamic World, Dr. Ladan Akbarnia

Museum of Fine Arts

Houston
5:00 pm
11.09.19
Lecture

Tiles that tell Persian Tales, with Lisa Golombek, Curator Emeritus, Royal Ontario Museum (ROM)

Institute of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto (Jackman Building, room 530)

Toronto

11.07.19
Lecture

The Shock of the New? Writing and the Propagation of Religious Ideology in Early Islam, with Marcus Milwright, University of Victoria, Canada

G.06, 50 George Square, University of Edinburgh
6:00 pm
11.05.19
Lecture

Chinese and Abbasid Ceramic Trade and Exchange, 8th -10th centuries with Dr Wen Wen (Barker Langham)

D/L/036, Derwent College, University of York

York, YO10 5DD
6:30 pm
10.31.19

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