Lectures, News & Events

Fall 2026 AKPIA Lecture Series

A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture

October 1, 2026, 6:00pm

"Islamic Art as an Experience: The New Galleries in the Pergamon Museum Berlin"

Stefan Weber

Director of the Museum for Islamic Art, Pergamon Museum in Berlin

co-sponsored with the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program, the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, and the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East

LOWER LECTURE HALL

October 15, 2026, 6:00pm

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

Fatima Quraishi

Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University

ROOM 422

October 29, 2026, 6:00pm

"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, University of Toronto

LOWER LECTURE HALL

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

ROOM 422

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. 

Lectures are open to the public and are held on Thursdays, 6:00-7:30pm, at 485 Broadway (HAA Lower Lecture Hall, or Room 422), Cambridge MA. For further information, call 617-495-2355, email agakhan@fas.harvard.edu or visit https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/news-events.

These events will not be recorded or livestreamed

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