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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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