Spring 2018 AKPIA Lecture Series, A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture

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Type: 
Lecture
Date: 
February 15, 2018 to April 5, 2018
Location: 
Massachusetts, United States
Subject Fields: 
Arabic History / Studies, Archaeology, Islamic History / Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Architecture and Architectural History

 

Please note revised location for all spring AKPIA lectures at Harvard University

 

 

2017 – 2018 AKPIA Lecture Series, A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University presents

 

February 15, 2018

Mounia Chekhab Abudaya

Curator for Manuscripts and Western Mediterranean Collections, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha; Harvard AKPIA Associate

“Ottoman Devotional Manuscripts: Study of a Corpus from the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha”

 

March 1, 2018

Rocco Rante

Archaeologist, Department of Islamic Art, Louvre Museum

“Evolution of Settlements and Socio-Economic Features in the Bukhara Oasis between Antiquity and Medieval period”

Co-sponsored with the Committee on Medieval Studies

 

March 22, 2018

Belgin Turan Özkaya

Professor of Architectural History, Middle East Technical University, Ankara; Harvard AKPIA Associate

“Itinerant Objects: British Museum and the Ottoman Response to Antiquity”

 

April 5, 2018

Neşe Gurallar

Professor, Department of Architecture, Gazi University, Ankara; Harvard AKPIA Associate

“Kars: Russian Modernity on East Anatolia (1877-1917)”

Supported by TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey)

 

 

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University

Lectures are free and open to the public. They are held Thursdays, 5:30—7:00pm,

Please note this new location for lectures: Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street, Cambridge, MA

For further information, call 617-495-2355 or email agakhan@fas.harvard.edu

View our previous lectures: https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/podcasts-0

 

Contact Info: 

Contact Info:

Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University

History of Art and Architecture department

Two Arrow Street, Room 330A

Cambridge, MA 02138

617-495-2355

 

 

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