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
Lecture
AKPIA Lecture Series: Annalinda Neglia, Gardens of Memory: Design Against Amnesia
MIT, Room 3-133
Cambridge, MA
6:00 pm
04.02.18
Lecture
Farhad Daftary, Spiritual Foundations of the Fatimids
Aga Khan Museum
Toronto
2:00 pm
03.25.18
Lecture
AKPIA Lecture Series: Belgin Turan Özkaya, Itinerant Objects: British Museum and the Ottoman Response to Antiquity
Belfer Case Study Room, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street, Room
Cambridge, MA
5:30 pm
03.22.18
Special Event
Persian New Year: Burns and Hafez - Bards Apart?
V&A
London
7:00 pm
03.21.18
Exhibition
Mouneer al Shaarani: Calligraphic Rhythms
Box Freiraum, Boxhagener Platz
Berlin
03.21-03.21.18
Lecture
Zeynep Yürekli-Gorkay, An Ottoman Sense of Place: Topographical Illustration between Europe and Iran
Royal Asiatic Society
London
6:30 pm
03.20.18
Exhibition
Blue Road: Mastercrafts from Persia
Liang Yi Museum
Hong Kong
03.20-03.20.18
Lecture
Amanda Phillips, Seachange: Ottoman Textiles between the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean
ARIT - ANAMED, Beyoğlu
Istanbul
6:00 pm
03.19.18
Exhibition
Binding the Clouds: The Art of Central Asian Ikat
The Textile Museum
Washington, DC
03.16-03.16.18
Lecture
SOAS Islamic Art Circle: Peter J. Lu, Decagonal and Quasicrystalline Geometry in the Architecture of Medieval Iran and Its Influ
Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS
London
7:00 pm
03.14.18
Lecture
Gülru Necipoğlu, Artistic Cosmopolitanism from Istanbul to North Africa
CMES Tunis
Tunisia
5:30 pm
03.13.18
Lecture
AKPIA Lecture Series: Ariella Azoulay, Plunder, Destruction and Museums: The Imperial Origins of Democracy
MIT, Room 3-133
Cambridge, MA
6:00 pm
03.12.18