2016 – 2017 AKPIA Lecture Series, A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture at Harvard University

2016 – 2017 AKPIA Lecture Series

A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University

Thursday, October 6, 2016

“The Nature of Almohad Architectural Ornament”

Jessica Streit, Assistant Professor of Art and Architectural History, The College of Charleston

Co-Sponsored with the Committee on Medieval Studies

The location for the October 6 lecture will be The Barker Center (Humanities Center) Thompson Room (110). The Barker Center is bordered by Prescott, Harvard, and Quincy Streets in Harvard Square.

Thursday, November 3

"Sensing the City: Public Spaces and Urban Experience in Safavid Isfahan"

Farshid Emami, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University

Thursday, December 1

"Imperial Ceremonies and Istanbul Suburbs: Üsküdar and Davutpaşa at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century"

Satoshi Kawamoto, Research Fellow, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; Harvard AKPIA Associate

Thursday, February 23, 2017

"Sustaining Tradition or Embracing Change? Prisse d’Avennes and the Strategies of Visualizing Islamic Architecture of Cairo in French Books (1860-80)"

Paulina Banas, Harvard AKPIA Associate

Thursday, March 23

"The Making of Marrakesh: ʿAbd al-Muʾmin and the Almohad Legacy"

Abbey Stockstill, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University

William R. Tyler Fellow in Garden & Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks

Thursday, April 6

"The Madrasa in Iran and Baghdad under the Saljuqs"

Maryam Kamali, Harvard AKPIA Associate

Thursday, April 20

"Aesthetics and the Cenotaphic in Medieval Iberian Culture"

Enass Khansa, Harvard AKPIA Associate; Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University; The Santiago Cathedral Project (Spain)

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University

Lectures are free and open to the public. They are held Thursdays, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m., at the Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 318, Harvard University, 485 Broadway, Cambridge MA 02138 unless noted otherwise.  For further information, call 617-495-2355 or email agakhan@fas.harvard.edu.

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