2018 – 2019 AKPIA Lecture Series, A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture
The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University presents
September 20, 2018
“The Parthenon Mosque”
Elizabeth Key Fowden
Senior Researcher, Impact of the Ancient City, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
October 11, 2018
“Medieval Kashan: City of Scholars and Artisans”
Roy Mottahedeh
Gurney Professor of History, Emeritus, Department of History, Harvard University
November 8, 2018
"Turkish Habits: Ottoman Fashion and Self-Fashioning on the World Stage"
Ünver Rüstem
Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Johns Hopkins University; Harvard AKPIA Fellow
February 7, 2019
“Drawings and Models: Architectural Processes in a Seventeenth Century Book on Ottoman Architecture”
Gül Kale
Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History; Harvard AKPIA Associate
March 14, 2019
“The Concept of ‘Persianate’ as Applied to Delhi Sultanate Architecture and Décor”
Yves Porter
Professor of Islamic Art History, Aix-Marseille Université, Institut Universitaire de France
Co-Sponsored with the Committee on Medieval Studies
April 4, 2019
“The Uses of Antiquities: Archaeology, Museums, and Diplomacy in Pre-colonial Tunisia”
Ridha Moumni
Curator and cultural advisor, Tunis; Harvard AKPIA Fellow
THE AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Lectures are free and open to the public. They are held Thursdays, 6:00-7:30pm,
at the Real Colegio Complutense, 26 Trowbridge Street, Cambridge, MA
For further information, call 617-495-2355 or email agakhan@fas.harvard.edu
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