Upcoming and Ongoing Events

• 09.26.19–04.09.20

  Lecture

  Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University: 2019-20 Lecture Series

  Harvard University

• 02.07–05.03.20

  Exhibition

  Calligrapher to the King – Daud al-Hossaini

  Museum for Islamic Art

  Berlin

• 02.19.20

  Lecture

  The Maydan-e Naqsh-e Jahan in Isfahan and André Godard’s Restorations, with Sarah Piram, Iran Heritage Foundation Curator, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

  Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House (first floor, room 108)

  Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

  7:00 pm

• 02.19.20

  Lecture

  Ali al-Sharafi’s Nautical Atlases and Rectangular World Map: A 16th-century lingua franca of the Mediterranean & the Black Sea & its translation into a map of Eurasia and Africa, with Prof. Sonja Brentjes

  Oxford Center for Islamic Studies

  Oxford

  5:00 pm

• 02.26.20

  Lecture

  Hajj and the Arts of Pilgrimage, with Prof. Nasser David Khalili

  Oxford Center for Islamic Studies

  Oxford

  5:00 pm

• 03.04.20

  Lecture

  Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World, with Prof. Robert Hillenbrand

  Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road

  Oxford

  5:00 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

• 03.11.20

  Lecture

  The Ninth Bahari Foundation Lecture in Iranian Art and Culture A History of Miniature Painting between the 1540s and 1560s in Central Asia , with Dr Karin Rührdanz, Curator Emerita, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto

  Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House (first floor, room 108)

  Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

  7:00 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

• 04.22.20

  Lecture

  The Qur’ans of Uljaytu, with Dr Alison Ohta Director, Royal Asiatic Society, London

  Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House (first floor, room 108)

  Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

  7:00 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

• 05.13.20

  Lecture

  ART AND OIL: Calouste Gulbenkian and his Collection of Islamic Art, with Dr Jessica Hallett, Curator, Early Modern Middle East, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal

  Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House (first floor, room 108)

  Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

  7:00 pm

• 06.10.20

  Lecture

  Architects & Astrolabes: Islamic Art & Science in Medici Florence, with Dr Glaire Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art, University of Edinburgh

  Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Paul Webley Wing, Senate House (first floor, room 108)

  Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG

  7:00 pm

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• Workshop

  CITIES WORKSHOP 4: SHIRAZ at Silsila: Center for Material Histories, NYU

  4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

  New York

  9:30 am

  12.06.19

• Workshop

  Writing as Intermediary. Text-Image Relations in Early Modern Islamic Cultures, Islamic Art and Archaeology, University of Bamberg, 10th to 12th October, 2019.

  Universität Bamberg

  Bamberg

  10.10–10.12.19

• Workshop

  Cities Workshop: Makli/Thatta

  Silsila Center for Material Histories

  New York City

  04.26.19

• 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

  01.21.19

• Workshop

  Cities 2: Zafar--Material History of a Buried South Arabian City on the Eve of Islam

  Silsila Center, NYU

  New York

  9:00 am

  12.07.18

• Workshop

  Understanding the Book Structure and Binding of Islamic Manuscripts

  Aga Khan Museum

  Toronto

  10.16–10.19.18

• Workshop

  Heritage Revisited: Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe

  University of Vienna, Institut for Art History

  Vienna

  10:00 am

  09.20–09.21.18