Upcoming and Ongoing Events

• 09.08.18–03.03.19

  Exhibition

  Splendour and Bliss: Arts from the Islamic World

  Gemeente Museum

  The Hague

• 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

• 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

• 03.06.19

  Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Margaret Graves, The Intellect of Hand-Making, Meaning, and Thinking in Medieval Plastic Arts

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

  6:30 pm

• 03.13.19

  Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Brinkley Messick, Spaces of Knowledge: Material Histories of Shari'a Texts

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

  6:30 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

• 03.27.19

  Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Beate Fricke, Miracles of Mediation: Still-Life, Liturgical Vessels, and Processions at Cordoba

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

  6:30 pm

• 04.03.19

  Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Martina Rugiadi, Transmitting Potential: Makers and Marbles in Ghazni, Afghanistan

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

  6:30 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

• 04.12.19

  Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Jaś Elsner, Digital Reproduction and the Artemidorus Papyrus

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

  6:30 pm

• 04.17.19

  Lecture

  Silsila Lectures: Stephen Sheehi, Refusing the 1948 Partition of the Sensible: Decolonial Palestinian Photography

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

  6:30 pm

• 04.25.19

  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

  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

• 04.26.19

  Workshop

  Cities Workshop: Makli/Thatta

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

• 05.01.19

  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

Past events

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• 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

• Special Event

  Transforming Traditions: Curator's Tour with Ulrike al-Khamis

  Aga Khan Museum

  Toronto

  6:30 pm

  11.06.18

• Special Event

  George Michell In Conversation with Helen Philon: The Islamic Architecture Of The Deccan

  Royal Asiatic Society

  London

  6:30 pm

  11.02.18

• Special Event

  Shirine Neshat and Shoja Azeri, Looking for Oum Kulthum (film)

  British Museum

  London

  09.30.18

• Special Event

  A Recital of Classical Ottoman Court Music with Q&A

  Leighton House Museum

  London

  6:30 pm

  07.11.18

• Special Event

  From Melancholy to Euphoria: The Materialisation of Emotion in Middle Eastern Manuscripts

  Sydney Myer Asia Centre

  University of Melbourne

  8:30 am

  06.27–06.28.18

• Special Event

  A Conversation with Shirin Neshat

  Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington

  Seattle

  3:00 pm

  05.20.18

• Special Event

  Massumeh Farhad, Plush Life in Ikat Velvet

  Textile Museum, George Washington University

  Washington, DC

  12:00 pm

  05.17.18