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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  The Maqamat Tradition and the Pre-Modern Roots of Arab Modernism, a workshop at Silsila, NYU

  New York University, 4 Washington Square North, 2nd floor

  New York

  6:30 pm

  04.10.20

• 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