Lectures, News & Events

Spring 2026 AKPIA Lecture Series

A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture

February 19, 2026

"Harvard’s Safavid Multi-Text Compendium: The Codex as a Communal Gathering of Riddles"

Christiane Gruber

Mehmet Ağa-Oğlu Collegiate Professor of Islamic Art History, University of Michigan

co-sponsored with Standing Committee on Medieval Studies at Harvard University

March 26, 2026

"Picturing the İskendername: Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Manuscripts"

Serpil Bağcı

AKPIA Fellow; Professor, Department of History, Bilkent University

April 30, 2026

"Vaulting Techniques in Iranian Islamic Architecture: An Unpublished Study by Myron Bement Smith and Doǧan Kuban"

David Roxburgh

Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History, Harvard University

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

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