HIAA Biennial Symposia

2020 Biennial Symposium

Regime Change

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

10.29–11.01.20

Call for Papers submission deadline is 12.01.19. Learn more

The Imprisonment of Zahhak (detail), folio from the Shahname of Shah Tahmasp . 1535. Iran. Learn more. Aga Khan Museum, AKM 155.

Past symposia

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  2018 Biennial Symposium

  Border Crossing

  • Yale University
  • New Haven, CT
  • 10.25–10.27.18
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  2016 Biennial Symposium

  Regionality: Looking for the Local in the Arts of Islam

  • The Courtauld Institute of Art
  • London
  • 10.19–10.21.16
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  2014 Biennial Symposium

  Forms of Knowledge & Cultures of Learning in Islamic Art

  • The Aga Khan Museum
  • Toronto
  • 10.15–10.17.14
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  2012 Biennial Symposium

  Looking Widely, Looking Closely

  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • New York
  • 10.17–10.19.12
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  2010 Biennial Symposium

  Objects, Collections, and Cultures

  • Freer and Sackler Galleries
  • Washington, D.C.
  • 10.20–10.22.10
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  2008 Biennial Symposium

  Spaces & Visions

  • The University of Pennsylvania
  • Philadelphia
  • 10.15–10.17.08