2019 – 2020 Harvard University Aga Khan Program Lecture Series
A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture
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; Harvard AKPIA Fellow
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 23, 2020 rescheduled: previously Oct 17, 2019
"Qusayr 'Amra: The Pandora's Box of Early Islamic Aesthetics"
Nadia Ali
Faculty Fellow, Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University
Lectures are open to the public and are held 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.
Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University, Sackler 415, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138