A lecture by Nikolas Bakirtzis, Associate Professor and Director of the Andreas Pittas Art Characterization Laboratories (APAC Labs) of the Cyprus Institute. Co-sponsored by the Department of the History of Art & Architecture and the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies.
Alexander Brey (Wellesley College), Ruins, Reuse, and Memory in Early Islamic Architecture. Co-sponsored by the Committee on Medieval Studies and the Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture.
An introduction to the work of Caucasus Heritage Watch (CHW), which uses the techniques of cultural aerospace to document, detect, and deter attacks on the fragile remains of the human past in the South Caucasus; presentations by Adam T. Smith (Cornell University), Ian Lindsay (Purdue University), Lori Khatchadourian (Cornell University), and Husik Ghulyan (Cornell University). Co-sponsored by the Harvard Department of the History of Art & Architecture, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, the Mashtots Chair in Armenian Studies, the Program on Georgian Studies, the... Read more about Heritage Forensics: Satellites and Specters in the Contested Caucasus