# Lectures, News & Events ## expand\_more [ ![AKPIA Lecture Poster Spring 2026](/sites/g/files/omnuum9891/files/2026-03/AKPIA%20Lecture%20Poster%20Spring%202026%20FINAL%20update.jpg) ](https://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omnuum9891/files/2026-03/AKPIA%20Lecture%20Poster%20Spring%202026%20FINAL%20update_1.pdf)**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Department of History, Bilkent University **April 30, 2026** "*Vaulting Techniques in Iranian Islamic Architecture:* An Unpublished Study by Myron Bement Smith and Doǧan Kuban" **David Roxburgh** Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Islamic Art History, Harvard University Lectures are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 . *To join the AKPIA mailing list: contact* [*agakhan@fas.harvard.edu*](mailto:agakhan@fas.harvard.edu) --- Attachments- [ picture\_as\_pdf AKPIA Lecture Poster Spring 2026 FINAL update.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum9891/files/2026-03/AKPIA%20Lecture%20Poster%20Spring%202026%20FINAL%20update_1.pdf) ---