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

• 09.26.19–04.09.20

  Lecture

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

  Harvard University

• 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

Past events

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• 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