Lectures, News & Events

Fall 2026 AKPIA Lecture Series

A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture

October 15, 2026

"Palimpsests Past and Present: The Sufis and Sultans of the Maklī Necropolis, 1380–1660"

Fatima Quraishi

Assistant Professor, Art and Archaeology, Princeton University

October 29, 2026

"High Stakes, Big Data: The Existential Entanglements of the Abbasid Nilometer in Cairo"

Heba Mostafa

Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of Art History, St. George, University of Toronto

November 19, 2026

"Entangled with the River: The Making of Safavid Isfahan from Watershed to Body"

Sahar Hosseini

Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh

Lectures are in-person, open to the public, and held Thursdays, 6:00-7:30pm, at 485 Broadway, Room 422, Cambridge, MA. For further information, call 617-495-2355 or email agakhan@fas.harvard.edu. 

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