Lecture: Renata Holod, "The Visual and Material Culture of Rayy, as Revealed through the Excavations Headed by Erich Schmidt in the Late 1930s"

The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University presents (via Zoom)

March 25, 2021, 5:30pm

"The Visual and Material Culture of Rayy, as Revealed through the Excavations Headed by Erich Schmidt in the Late 1930s"

Renata Holod

College of Women Class of 1963 Professor in the Humanities, History of Art Department; Curator, Near East Section of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania

To register: http://bit.ly/renataholod

Registration is also open for our following lecture:

April 22, 2021, at 5:30pm

"Imagining a World: Selfhood and Empire in Safavid Iran"

Kishwar Rizvi

Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of the History of Art, Yale University

To register: http://bit.ly/kishwar

Lectures are held via Zoom session; time listed is Eastern Standard Time; registration is required.

For more information, see: https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events.

Lectures will be recorded and made available from the AKPIA website, after the event date.

The recording of our February 4 lecture, "The Intellect of the Hand: Making and Thinking the Medieval Islamic Art of the Object," by Margaret Graves, Associate Professor of Islamic Art at Indiana University, is now available on the AKPIA YouTube channel.

THE AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

For further information, email agakhan@fas.harvard.edu, or visit https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events