Nadia Ali (New York University Center for Material Histories), Qusayr 'Amra: The Pandora's Box of Early Islamic Aesthetics.

Jochen Sokoly (Virginia Commonwealth University-Qatar), Between Khurasan, Iraq, Egypt and al-Andalus: New Thoughts on the Processes of Commissioning Caliphal Works Under the Early Islamic Caliphates.

Ann Shafer (AKPIA Associate), Towards an Understanding of Early Islamic Architectural Ornament: Ancient Near Eastern Influences at Samarra.

Sunil Kumar (Delhi University), Reconstituting the Archive of Hazrat-i Dehli: The Sultans, the Sufis and the Riverine Plain of Delhi. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, and the Harvard Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies. Read more about AKPIA-Medieval Studies Lecture in Medieval Islamic Architecture

Sunil Kumar (Delhi University), The Creation and Representation of Order: Ghiyas al-Din Tughluq’s Tughluqabad. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies, the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, and the Harvard Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies. Read more about AKPIA-Medieval Studies Lecture in Medieval Islamic Architecture

Roy Mottahedeh (Harvard University), Medieval Kashan: City of Scholars and Artisans. Read more about AKPIA Lecture Series

Elizabeth Key Fowden (University of Cambridge), The Parthenon Mosque.

Yves Porter (Université d'Aix-Marseille), The Concept of 'Persianate' as Applied to Delhi Sultanate Architecture and Decor. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. Read more about AKPIA-Medieval Studies Lecture in Medieval Islamic Architecture