2019 – 2020 AKPIA Lecture Series, A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture

Cecily Pollard Announcement
Location
Massachusetts, United States
Subject Fields
Architecture and Architectural History, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Islamic History / Studies, Arabic History / Studies, Medieval and Byzantine History / Studies

 

2019 – 2020 Harvard University Aga Khan Program Lecture Series

A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture at Harvard University

 

FALL

September 26, 2019

“Representing Power at the Court of Ottoman Tunisia in the 19th Century”

Ridha Moumni

Art Historian, Curator; Harvard CMES Fellow

Co-sponsored with The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

 

October 17, 2019

"Qusayr 'Amra: The Pandora's Box of Early Islamic Aesthetics"

Nadia Ali

Faculty Fellow, Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University

 

November 21, 2019

“Re-thinking ‘National Style’: Actors, Tendencies and References”

Müjde Dila Gümüş

Researcher, Istanbul University; Harvard AKPIA Associate

 

December 5, 2019 

“Towards an Understanding of Early Islamic Architectural Ornament: Ancient Near Eastern Influences at Samarra”

Ann Shafer

Independent scholar; Adjunct Assistant Professor, SUNY-FIT; Harvard AKPIA Associate

 

SPRING

March 5, 2020

“Between Khurasan, Iraq, Egypt and al-Andalus: New Thoughts on the Processes of Commissioning Caliphal Works Under the Early Islamic Caliphates”

Jochen Sokoly

Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar

 

SUNIL KUMAR: SPECIAL GUEST LECTURES FOR THE AKPIA SERIES

Professor, History of Medieval India, History Department Head, Delhi University

Co-sponsors, Standing Committee on Medieval Studies; Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Lecture 1: March 31, 2020

 “The Creation and Representation of Order: Ghiyas al-Din Tughluq’s Tughluqabad”

Lecture 2: April 2, 2020

“Reconstituting the Archive of Hazrat-i Dehli: The Sultans, the Sufis and the Riverine Plain of Delhi”

These two lectures are held at 6:00pm, in the Sackler Basement Auditorium

 

April 9, 2020

 “Habsburg Alba Amicorum in Ottoman Constantinople”

Robyn Radway 

Assistant Professor of History, Central European University

 

Lectures are open to the public and held Thursdays, 6:00-7:30pm, in the Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 422, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA. The two Special Guest Lectures will be held in the Sackler Basement Auditorium.

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

 

Contact Information

Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture

Harvard University

Sackler 415

485 Broadway

Cambridge, MA 02138 USA

Tel 617-495-2355

Contact Email
agakhan@fas.harvard.edu