Spring 2022 AKPIA Lecture Series, A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture
The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University presents
Spring 2022 AKPIA Lecture Series
A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture
Held via Zoom Webinar
February 24, 2022. 6:00pm EST
“Emperor Shāh Jahān: The Gardener (chaman-pera) of a Vast Garden (bāgh wa būstān) called Hindustan”
Gulfishan Khan, AKPIA Associate; Professor of Medieval Indian History, Chairperson of the Centre of Advance Study, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
Registration: https://bit.ly/akpiagkhan
March 10, 2022. 6:00pm EST
“A Thousand Futures: Negotiating Urban Transformation in Early Republican Istanbul (1923-1949)”
Ümit Fırat Açıkgöz
AKPIA Fellow; Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture and Design, American University of Beirut
Registration: https://bit.ly/thousandfutures
March 24, 2022. 12:00 noon EST *
“On Polychromy, Polysemy and Whiteness in Islamic Art”
Alain Fouad George
I.M. Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Director of Graduate Admissions, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford
Co-sponsored with the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies at Harvard University
*special early start time
Registration: https://bit.ly/akpiageorge
April 21, 2022. 6:00pm EST
“Documentary Life: Sketch as Chronicle in Shah Abbas’ Iran”
Kishwar Rizvi
AKPIA Fellow; Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of the History of Art, Yale University
Registration: https://bit.ly/documentarylife
Lectures are held via Zoom webinar; time listed is Eastern Standard Time; registration is required.
We anticipate that all lectures will be recorded and made available at the AKPIA website, after the event date.
THE AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
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Contact Info:
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
Harvard University
Sackler 415
485 Broadway
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
Tel 617-495-2355
Categories
Keywords
- Art History & Visual Studies
- Islamic art and architecture
- Islamic art and material culture
- Islamic art and visual culture
- Art History / Visual Studies
- Architecture and Architectural History
- History of Art and Architecture
- Islamic architecture
- Art and Architecture
- Islamic History / Studies
- Islamic art history
- Islamic manuscripts
- South Asian History / Studies
- South Asian Art and Architecture
- south asian gardens
- Islamic gardens
- gardens
- Shah Jahan
- Early Republican Period in Turkey
- Istanbul
- Iran
- Persian Art and material Culture
- art history and material culture
- Islamic Material Culture
- AKPIA Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
- Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture
- Harvard University
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