In 2008 the association launched a series of biennial symposia, held over several days, designed to encourage in-depth discussions of themes and issues relevant to the study of Islamic arts and cultures today. The symposia bring together established and emerging scholars to present new research from across the world.
Past symposia
Special Event
Luminescent Dialogues A Conversational Exchange about the Symbolic Role of Light in World Faiths, Art, and Cultures Presented
Online
MFA, Houston
3:00 pm
04.24.21
Lecture
Crossing Medieval and Islamic Studies in Jordan. Medieval Petra and Shawbak in cc. 11-14: a Light Archaeology, by Michele Nuccio
Institut français du Proche-Orient
3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut
3:00 pm
04.22.21
Lecture
Imagining a World: Selfhood and empire in Safavid Iran, by Kishwar Rizvi, Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department
Harvard, AKPIA Lecture
Cambridge, MA (Online)
04.22.21
Lecture
Silsila Lecture and Discussion Series: ARCHITECTURES OF CO-EXISTENCE: BUILDING PLURALISM, Nebahat Avcioğlu, Hunter College; Azra
NYU
New York, Online
12:30 pm
04.21.21
Lecture
Silsila Lecture and Discussion Series: FIRST IMPRESSIONS: PRINT MEDIA IN THE MODERN ISLAMIC WORLD, Mira Schwerda, Harvard Univer
NYU
New York, Online
12:30 pm
04.09.21
Lecture
Restore and rehabilitate Al-Qastal mosque, by Ahmad Lash (Department of Antiquities of Jordan)
Institut français du Proche-Orient
3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut
3:00 pm
04.08.21
Conference
Conservation | Making | Art | History - April 8-9, 2021
Clark Art Institute
Online
04.08-04.08.21
Lecture
Silsila Lecture and Discussion Series: THE MAQAMAT TRADITION AND THE PRE-MODERN ROOTS OF ARAB MODERNISM, Maurice Pomerantz, NYU;
NYU
New York, Online
12:30 pm
03.26.21
Lecture
The Umayyad and early Abbasid Reservoir-Enclosure of ‘Ayn Sawdā (Azraq Oasis, Jordan), by Lorraine Abu-Azizeh, Julie Bonnéric,
Institut français du Proche-Orient
3h-4h PM CET, 4h-5h PM in Amman & Beirut
3:00 pm
03.25.21
Lecture
The Visual and Material Culture of Rayy, as Revealed through the Excavations Headed by Erich Schmidt in the late 1930s, by Renat
Harvard, AKPIA Lecture
Cambridge, MA (Online)
03.25.21