LECTURE SERIES: A FORUM FOR ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE
All lectures will be held on Thursdays from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. in Room 318 of the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, 485 Broadway. The Friday seminar will be held in Sackler Room 515 at 11am.
Lectures are free and open to the public.
For further information, please call 617-495-2355.
2009-2010 LECTURE SERIES
SEPTEMBER 24
Professor Cristelle Baskins, "Picturing the Levant in Renaissance Italy," Associate Professor, Art and Art History, Tufts University; Postdoctoral Fellow in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University
OCTOBER 29
Professor Doris Behrens Abouseif, "The Foundation of Sultan Mahmud I in Cairo and the Dialogue over Fountains between Two Cities," Nasser D. Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
OCTOBER 30
Professor Doris Behrens Abouseif, "Mamluk Art and Europe," Nasser D. Khalili Professor of Islamic Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
NOVEMBER 5
Professor Nasser Rabbat, "Staging the City: How Mamluk Architecture Coopted the Streets of Cairo," Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
FEBRUARY 18
Elizabeth Schotten Merklinger, "Architectural Masterpieces of the Deccan Sultanates: Gulbarga, Bidar and Bijapur," Independent Scholar, former Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture Fellow
MARCH 4
Professor Finbarr Barry Flood, "All That Glitters: Image and Ornament in Early Islam," William B. Kenan Professor of the Humanities Institute of Fine Arts & Department of Art History, New York University
APRIL 1
Amity Law, "Cultural Modeling and Identity in the Western Mediterranean," Postdoctoral Fellow in the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, Harvard University
