Format: Online via Zoom
Duration: 24 February 2022 to 21 April 2022
Organized by: The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University presents the Spring 2022 AKPIA Lecture Series titled A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture. The individual lectures will be held via Zoom Webinar. Time listed is Eastern Standard Time (EST) and for each lecture registration is required.
PROGRAMME
24 February 2022 (6:00pm EST)
Emperor Shāh Jahān: The Gardener (chaman-pera) of a Vast Garden (bāgh wa būstān) called Hindustan
Gulfishan Khan (AKPIA Associate; Professor of Medieval Indian History, Chairperson of the Centre of Advance Study, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India)
Registration: [here]
10 March 2022 (6:00pm EST)
A Thousand Futures: Negotiating Urban Transformation in Early Republican Istanbul (1923-1949)
Ümit Fırat Açıkgöz (AKPIA Fellow; Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture and Design, American University of Beirut)
Registration: [here]
24 March 2022 (12:00 noon EST)
On Polychromy, Polysemy and Whiteness in Islamic Art
Alain Fouad George (I.M. Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Director of Graduate Admissions, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Fellow of Wolfson College, University of Oxford)
Co-sponsored with the Standing Committee on Medieval Studies at Harvard University
Registration: [here]
21 April 2022 (6:00pm EST)
Documentary Life: Sketch as Chronicle in Shah Abbas’ Iran
Kishwar Rizvi (AKPIA Fellow; Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of the History of Art, Yale University)
Registration: [here]
It is anticipated that all lectures will be recorded and made available at the AKPIA website, after the event date. For more information, please visit the website here.
