Upcoming and Ongoing Events

• 09.23.20

  Lecture

  "CONTINUITIES AND CROSSINGS - EAST AFRICAN ILLUMINATED QUR'ANS FROM FAZA AND SIYU" Zulfikar Hirji, York University, Toronto

  Online (from New York City)

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

  12:30 pm

• 09.25–10.23.20

  Conference

  Art History, Postcolonialism, and the Global Turn

  Online

• 09.30.20

  Lecture

  "ITEMS OF VALUE IN THE WESTERN INDIAN OCEAN" Stephanie Wynne-Jones, University of York

  Online (from New York City)

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

  12:30 pm

• 10.07.20

  Lecture

  "BROKER STATES & THE ARTICULATION OF MEDIEVAL AFRICA WITH THE ISLAMIC WORLD" François-Xavier Fauvelle, Collège de France

  Online (from New York City)

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

  12:30 pm

• 10.14.20

  Lecture

  "THE PALACE OF KING NJOYA - COLONIALISM, MODERNITY, AND ISLAM" Mark DeLancey, DePaul University

  Online (from New York City)

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

  12:30 pm

• 10.20.20

  Lecture

  "RELATIONS BETWEEN THE MAGHREB AND THE BILĀD AL-SŪDĀN AT THE TIME OF THE BERBER EMPIRES" Mehdi Ghouirgate, Bordeaux-Montaigne University

  Online (from New York City)

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

  12:30 pm

• 10.22.20

  Lecture

  "TRANS-SAHARAN SLAVERY AND GNAWA GUINBRI: FROM CONCEALMENT TO EXHIBITION" Cynthia Becker, Boston University

  Online (from New York City)

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

  12:30 pm

• 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

• 12.02.20

  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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• Special Event

  The Business meeting for the Historians of Islamic Art Association

  Hilton Chicago

  Chicago

  12:30 pm

  02.14.20

  Sponsored by HIAA

• Special Event

  Islamic Archaeology Day at UCL

  31-34 Gordon Square

  London WC1H 0PY

  11:00 am

  02.01.20

• Special Event

  The Rise of Islamic Art: Gallery Talk (in Portuguese)

  Museo Calouste Gulbenkian

  Lisbon

  4:00 pm

  10.05.19

• Special Event

  The Rise of Islamic Art: Gallery Talk (in English)

  Museo Calouste Gulbenkian

  Lisbon

  3:00 pm

  09.19.19

• Special Event

  Syria and Yemen: Making Art Today (a symposium with artists, curators and scholars to investigate the current status and future of art and culture in the region)

  Stevenson Lecture Theatre, British Museum

  London

  10:30 am

  07.07.19

• Special Event

  Joint Book Launch and Discussion--From Stone to Paper (Chanchal Dadlani) & The Ottoman Baroque (Unver Rustem)

  Royal Asiatic Society Lecture Theatre 14 Stephenson Way

  London, NW1 2HD United Kingdom

  6:00 pm

  06.28.19

• Special Event

  The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World (Book Launch Event)

  Alumni Lecture Theatre Senate House, SOAS

  London WC1H 0XG

  7:00 pm

  06.21.19

• Special Event

  Majlis 2019

  Silsila Center for Material Histories, New York University

  by RSVP to the HIAA Secretary only

  3:00 pm

  02.15.19

  Sponsored by HIAA

• Special Event

  Islamic Archaeology Day

  University College

  London

  11:00 am

  02.02.19