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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• 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

• Lecture

  Rethinking the Friday Mosque: A Critical Enquiry of an Architectural Paradigm, Ruba Kana'an (University of Toronto)

  Columbia University

  612 Schermerhorn

  6:00 pm

  10.16.19

• Lecture

  Amanda Phillips, An Ottoman Tiraz? Sultan Bayezid's Silk at Studenica Monastery, Serbia

  Orient-Institut, Istanbul

  Turkey

  7:00 pm

  10.09.19

• Lecture

  Éloïse Brac de la Perrière, Beyond the Picture: Calligraphy and the Arts of the Book in Sultanate India,

  Leonard Wolfson Auditorium

  Wolfson College, Oxford University

  6:00 pm

  09.20.19

• Lecture

  Yarshater Lecture Series in Persian Art at SOAS-Artists, Paintings and their Publics: Safavid Albums in the Seventeenth Century with Massumeh Farhad, May 16, 17, 20 & 21

  Khalili Lecture Theatre SOAS University of London, Russell Square

  London

  7:00 pm

  05.16–05.21.19

• Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Webb Keane, The Clash of Semiotic Ideologies and the Ontological Turn Viewed from Indonesian Islam

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

  6:30 pm

  05.01.19

• Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Elizabeth Lambourn, Material Cultures of Sitting and Sleeping in the Indian Ocean World

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

  6:30 pm

  04.25.19

• Lecture

  'Orientalism' after 40: Lectures at the Courtauld Institute with Professor Elisabeth Fraser, “The Ottoman Costume Album as Collaborative Object and Agent of Contact” & Professor Mary Roberts, "Edward Said and the Epistolary Interior"

  The Courtauld Institute of Art

  London

  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

  04.25.19