The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University presents
Spring 2023 AKPIA Lecture Series
A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture
(All lectures are in person, in Cambridge MA)
February 23, 2023
“Crafting Metaphors: Rethinking Arabic Script Patterns as Apotropaia in Medieval Mosul”
Zahra Kazani
AKPIA Fellow; PhD ’22 University of Victoria, Canada
March 9, 2023
“Treatises of Practical Geometry and Architectural Practice of 11th- and 12th- Century Seljuk Dome Chambers in Isfahan”
Soheil Nazari
AKPIA Special Student; PhD Candidate, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany
March 30, 2023
“Paintings from the Private Houses of Abbasid Samarra: A Reassessment”
Fatma Dahmani
AKPIA Fellow; Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, University of Qayrawan, Tunisia
April 20, 2023
“The Sulayhid Qur’an: Stories of Connections and Belonging of a Short-Lived Dynasty”
Alya Karame
AKPIA Fellow; Research Associate, Orient-Institut Beirut and Collège de France
The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University
Lectures are open to the public and held Thursdays, 6:00-7:30pm,
at 485 Broadway (Basement Auditorium), Cambridge, MA.
For further information, call 617-495-2355 or email agakhan@fas.harvard.edu
Visit the website: https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events
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