Upcoming and Ongoing Events

• 08.28.18–01.27.19

  Exhibition

  Emperors & Jewels: Treasures of the Indian Courts from the al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait

  Aga Khan Museum

  Toronto

• 09.07.18–01.27.19

  Exhibition

  Collecting Calligraphy: Arts of the Islamic World

  Cincinnati Art Museum

  Ohio

• 09.08.18–03.03.19

  Exhibition

  Splendour and Bliss: Arts from the Islamic World

  Gemeente Museum

  The Hague

• 09.22.18–02.10.19

  Exhibition

  Transforming Traditions: The Arts of 19th-century Iran

  Aga Khan Museum

  Toronto

• 10.22.18–03.01.19

  Exhibition

  In the School of Wisdom: Persian Bookbinding, ca. 1575-1890

  Butler Library, Columbia University

  New York

• 10.29.18–03.24.19

  Exhibition

  Clouds and Gold Dust: Decorated Papers from the Ettinghausen Collection

  The Met Fifth Avenue

  New York

• 11.02.18–03.24.19

  Exhibition

  Garden Paradise: The Magnificent Safavid Garden Carpet from the Burrell Collection, Glasgow

  Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

  Texas

• 11.23.18–02.13.19

  Exhibition

  Syria Matters

  Museum of Islamic Art

  Doha

• 01.16–03.06.19

  Lecture

  Slade Lectures, Finbarr Barry Flood, Islam and Image: Beyond Aniconism and Iconoclasm

  Mathematical Institute, Woodstock Road, University of Oxford

  United Kingdom

  5:00 pm

• 01.21.19

  Workshop

  Richard McClary, Dealers, Collectors and Curators: The Rise in Fascination with Mina’i Wares in the Early Twentieth Century

  Bowland Auditorium

  University of York

  4:30 pm

• 02.01–02.02.19

  Conference

  Negotiating the Past. Islamic Heritage in Italy and Spain

  Università Iuav di Venezia

  Italy

  9:00 am

• 02.02.19

  Special Event

  Islamic Archaeology Day

  University College

  London

  11:00 am

• 02.07.19

  Lecture

  AKPIA Lecture Series: Gül Kale, Drawings and Models: Architectural Processes in a Seventeenth Century Book on Ottoman Architecture

  Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

  Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

• 02.15.19

  Special Event

  Majlis 2019

  Silsila Center for Material Histories, New York University

  by RSVP to the HIAA Secretary only

  3:00 pm

  Sponsored by HIAA

• 02.20.19

  Lecture

  SOAS Islamic Art Circle, Melanie Gibson, A Reappraisal of Timurid Ceramics

  Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS

  London

  7:00 pm

• 03.14.19

  Lecture

  AKPIA Lecture Series: Yves Porter, The Concept of ‘Persianate’ as Applied to Delhi Sultanate Architecture and Décor

  Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

  Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

• 03.21.19

  Lecture

  Simon Rettig, Sultan Ahmad Jalayir and his Manuscripts: New Directions in the Persian Arts of the Book around 1400

  University of Virginia

  Charlottesville

  6:00 pm

• 04.04.19

  Lecture

  AKPIA Lecture Series: Ridha Moumni, The Uses of Antiquities: Archaeology, Museums, and Diplomacy in Pre-colonial Tunisia

  Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

  Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

• 04.25.19

  Lecture

  Ainsley Cameron, The World the Emperor Would Have Liked, Not That It Actually Was: Textiles, Dress, and Court in a 19th Century Mughal Painting

  University of Virginia

  Charlottesville

  6:30 pm

Past events

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• Lecture

  SOAS Islamic Art Circle: Bora Keskiner, Calligrapher Ottoman Sultans in the 18th and 19th Centuries

  SOAS

  London

  7:00 pm

  12.06.18

• Lecture

  Bita Pourvash, Persian Art in Canada: Early Collections and Exhibitions

  Aga Khan Museum

  Toronto

  1:00 pm

  12.06.18

• Lecture

  SOAS Islamic Art Circle: Ellen Kenney, Imagining Things: Damascus and Material Culture under the Mamluks

  SOAS

  London

  12.05.18

• Lecture

  York Islamic Art Circle: Uthra Rajgopal and Amy George, Four Corners of One Cloth: Textiles from the Islamic World

  University of York

  United Kingdom

  6:30 pm

  11.29.18

• Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Clare Davies, Siah Armanjani: Everyday Magic in Iranian Modern Art

  Silsila Center, NYU

  New York

  6:30 pm

  11.28.18

• Lecture

  Cambridge Lectures in Islamic Art: Lale Uluç, Illustrated Copies of the Works of ‘Ali Shir Nava’i in Istanbul Libraries

  Pembroke College

  Cambridge

  5:30 pm

  11.22.18

• Lecture

  Talinn Grigor, Of Historicity and Historical (Un)Truth in Contemporary Iranian Art

  Aga Khan Musuem

  Toronto

  1:00 pm

  11.18.18

• Lecture

  York Islamic Art Circle: Firuza Melville, Contemporary Visual Interpretations of Medieval literature

  Berrick Saul Building

  University of York

  6:30 pm

  11.15.18

• Lecture

  Seif El Rashidi, Pop-Up Palaces: A Journey through 1,000 years of Egypt's Ceremonial Tent-making Tradition

  Leighton House Museum

  London

  6:30 pm

  11.14.18

• Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Adam Bursi, Matters of Taste: Sensory Experience within Early Islamic Pilgrimage

  Silsila Center, NYU

  New York

  6:30 pm

  11.14.18

• Lecture

  Nadhra Shahbaz Khan, Ornate Interiors and Spectacular Interiors: Lahore Fort and Metaphors of Kingship

  Victoria and Albert Museum

  London

  7:00 pm

  11.08.18

• Lecture

  AKPIA Lecture Series: Ünver Rüstem, Turkish Habits: Ottoman Fashion and Self-Fashioning on the World Stage

  Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street

  Cambridge, MA

  6:00 pm

  11.08.18