Upcoming and Ongoing Events

• 07.30.21

  Symposium

  Iranzamin - Curating Persian arts in 21st Century: challenges and practices - July 30th, 2021

  Live and in person

  Powerhouse Museum (and online)

  10:00 am

Past events

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• Lecture

  Storytelling in the Great Mongol ‘Shahnama,’ with Professor Robert Hillenbrand, University of St Andrews

  Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

  Online (https://asia.si.edu/events-overview/all-events/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D153427625)

  1:00 pm

  07.13.21

• Lecture

  Recent landscape archaeology in the Jabal Moussa Biosphere Reserve, Kesrouan, Lebanon: the medieval to modern periods, by Stephen McPhillips (Association for the Protection of Jabal Moussa)

  Institut français du Proche-Orient

  3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut

  3:00 pm

  06.17.21

• Lecture

  Earthly Beauty, Heavenly Art: Carpets for Prayer, by Sumru Belger Krody, Senior Curator, The Textile Museum Collection at The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum

  10 am PDT, 1 PM EDT

  Textile Museum Associates of SC, Colorado Textile Group, Portland Area Rug Society, SF Bay Area Rug Society, Seattle Textile and Rug Society

  10:00 am

  06.12.21

• Lecture

  On the Path of the 15th-Century Mazanderani Woodworkers (Iran), Dr Sandra Aube (researcher, CNRS, CeRMI, Paris)

  6:15 pm (Central European Summer Time, Madrid-Paris-Berlin-Rome-Budapest Time zone)

  Online (University of Bamberg)

  6:00 pm

  06.10.21

• Lecture

  Overview on the archeological research in the Shouf Mountains from late Antiquity to the Maan dynasty, by Wissam Khalil (Lebanese University)

  Institut français du Proche-Orient

  3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut

  3:00 pm

  06.03.21

• Lecture

  Poets and Artisans in the Mamluk Sultanate, by Prof Doris Behrens-Abouseif

  5pm BST

  Online

  5:00 pm

  06.02.21

• Lecture

  Ablution rooms of mosques in medieval Near East, by Marie-Odile Rousset (CNRS UMR 5133 Archéorient)

  Institut français du Proche-Orient

  3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut

  3:00 pm

  05.20.21

• Lecture

  Iranzamin Exhibition Talk Series--De-Territorializing Islamic Art History, with Dr. Mahroo Moosavi

  Level 2, Powerhouse Theatre, Powerhouse Museum

  Sydney

  2:30 pm

  05.15.21

• Lecture

  The Ezzat-Malek Soudavar Shahnama: Illustrating Firdawsi’s Book of Kings in the Early Qajar Period, by Simon Rettig

  Sneak Peek: New Research from the Freer and Sackler (Online)

  https://asia.si.edu/events-overview/talks/?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D152249926

  12:00 pm

  05.11.21

• Lecture

  Umm as-Surab (north-eastern Jordan): Settlement Dynamics in the Islamic periods. New data from Building Archaeology, by Piero Gilento (CNRS UMR 7041 ArScAn – Ifpo)

  Institut français du Proche-Orient

  3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut

  3:00 pm

  05.06.21

• Lecture

  Silsila Lecture and Discussion Series: THE SULTANS' TOMBS OF BANDA ACEH - A HISTORIOGRAPHY OF INDONESIAN ISLAMIC ART, Mirjam Shatanawi, Reinwardt Academy/Amsterdam University of the Arts

  NYU

  New York, Online

  12:30 pm

  05.05.21

• Lecture

  Imagining a World: Selfhood and empire in Safavid Iran, by Kishwar Rizvi, Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of the History of Art, Yale University

  Harvard, AKPIA Lecture

  Cambridge, MA (Online)

  04.22.21