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
Exhibition
Syria, Then and Now: Stories from Refugees a Century Apart
Brooklyn Museum
New York
10.13.18-10.13.18
Lecture
AKPIA Lecture Series: Roy Mottahedeh, Medieval Kashan: City of Scholars and Artisan
Harvard University, Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Stre
Cambridge, MA
6:00 pm
10.11.18
Conference
Middle Eastern Crafts: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Victoria and Albert Museum
London
10:30 am
10.11-10.11.18
Lecture
Lecture
SIlsila Lectures: Christopher Braun, Figural Representations in the Arabic Magical Tradition
Silsila Center, NYU
New York
6:30 pm
10.10.18
Lecture
York Islamic Art Circle: Catrin Jones, From Bath to Baghdad: Ellen Tanner's Collection of Middle Eastern Art
Berrick Saul Building, University of York
United Kingdom
6:30 pm
10.04.18
Lecture
Silsila Lectures: Roberta Giunta, Islamic-Magic Therapeutic Bowls
Silsila Center, NYU
New York
6:30 pm
10.03.18
Lecture
Miyuki Aoki Girardelli, Going West to Find the "East": Japanese Architect Ito Chuta's Travels Throughout the Ottoman Empire and
FedEx Center, Room 109, UNC Chapel Hill
North Carolina
6:00 pm
10.02.18
Special Event
Shirine Neshat and Shoja Azeri, Looking for Oum Kulthum (film)
British Museum
London
09.30.18
Lecture
Silsila Lectures: Lyla Halstad, Amuletic Practice and Pilgrimage: A Block Printed Arabic Amulet Scroll Depicting Mecca and Medin
Silsila Center, NYU
New York
6:30 pm
09.26.18
Lecture
Layla Diba, Between East and "West": The Art of Qajar Iran (1875-1925)
Aga Khan Museum
Toronto
2:00 pm
09.23.18
Exhibition
Armenia!
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
09.22.18-09.22.18