A two-day symposium celebrating the teaching and research of Gülru Necipoğlu, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art, with presentations by her colleagues and former students.... Read more about Shifting the Paradigm: New Studies in Islamic Art and Architecture in Honor of Gülru Necipoğlu

Susana Calvo Capilla (AKPIA Fellow; Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Islamic Architecture for Wisdom: Looking Back on the Classical Legacy. Read more about AKPIA Lecture Series

D. Fairchild Ruggles (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), The Extraordinary Architectural Patronage of a Thirteenth-Century Sultan-Queen: Shajar al-Durr of Egypt. Co-sponsored by the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the Committee on Medieval Studies. Read more about AKPIA-Medieval Studies Lecture on Islamic Architecture

Olga Bush (Vassar College), The Textility of the Alhambra. Read more about AKPIA Lecture Series

Gulfishan Khan (Aligarh Muslim University), Emperor Shāh Jahān: The Gardener (chaman-pera) of a Vast Garden (bāgh wa būstān) called Hindustan. This talk will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about Harvard AKPIA Lecture Series

Alain Fouad George (University of Oxford), On Polychromy, Polysemy and Whiteness in Islamic Art. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about AKPIA-Medieval Studies Lecture on Islamic Architecture

Jennifer Pruitt (University of Wisconsin Madison), Building the Caliphate: Construction, Destruction, and Sectarian Identity in Early Fatimid Architecture. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about Harvard AKPIA Lecture Series

Gulfishan Khan (Aligahr Muslim University), Shahjahanbad: The City of Shah Jahan as Described in Pādshāhnāma. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about Harvard AKPIA Lecture Series

Nadia Ali (Université Aix-Marseille), 'His Eyes Were Aware of the Pointed Corners of His Eyes': Reflections on the Gaze in Umayyad Painting. This lecture will take place on the Zoom meeting platform; please click here to register. Read more about Harvard AKPIA Lecture Series

Margaret Graves (University of Indiana), The Intellect of the Hand: Making and Thinking the Medieval Islamic Art of the Object. Co-sponsored by the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture and the Committee on Medieval Studies. This event will take place on the... Read more about AKPIA-Medieval Studies Lecture in Medieval Islamic Architecture

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

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. CANCELLED

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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. CANCELLED

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