Past symposia
Lecture
"PAPERS OF ISLAMIC MANUSCRIPTS AS GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATORS" Anne Regourd, CNRS, Paris
Online (from New York City)
Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories
12:30 pm
11.18.20
Special Event
Islamic Art on the Margins, A Conversation between Imran bin Tajudeen & Sana Mirza
The Middle East and Islamic Studies Program at University of Cal
Online
5:00 pm
11.16.20
Lecture
The Masonic Muhammad: Modern Franco-Iranian Visual Encounters in Prophetic Iconography, by Christiane Gruber (University of Mich
Los Angeles (Online)
Center for Near Eastern Studies, Islamic Studies, Fowler Museum at UCLA
12:00 pm
11.16.20
Lecture
"DETERMINANT INDETERMINACIES - ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHS OF A SENEGALESE SUFI SAINT" Allen F. Roberts, UCLA
Online (from New York City)
Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories
12:30 pm
11.11.20
Lecture
Reconquest of Hagia Sophia: Contested Museum, Conquered Monument, by Tuğba Tanyeri-Erdemir
Online
Temple University, Philadelphia
11:30 am
11.11.20
Roundtable
Hagia Sophia’s Conversions: Reflections on the Political, Temporal, and Aesthetic Dimensions of Heritage, with Emily Neumeier
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diver
RSVP email to Cziesielsky@mmg.mpg.de
6:00 pm
11.10.20
Lecture
Radical Alternatives: Temporal and Spatial Mediations in Contemporary Iranian Art, by Pamela Karimi (University of Massachusetts
The Courtald Institute of Art, London
Online (5pm, GMT)
5:00 pm
11.10.20
Lecture
In Relief and in the Round: Sculptural Works at the Mughal Court (Dr. Devangana Desai Endowment Lecture) by Asok Das
Online
Will air on the CSMVS Mumbai Youtube channel Sunday, 5.30 pm IST
5:30 pm
11.08.20
Lecture
"BECOMING MUSLIM. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF ISLAMISATION AND TRADE IN EASTERN ETHIOPIA" Timothy Insoll, University of Exeter
Online (from New York City)
Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories
12:30 pm
11.04.20
Lecture
"THE TARIKH AL-FATTASH AND THE MAKING OF THE CALIPHATE OF HAMDALLAHI" Mauro Nobili, University of Illinois
Online (from New York City)
Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories
12:30 pm
10.28.20
Seminar
Al Waleed bin Talal Seminar--"The Prophet as a ‘Sacred Spring’: Late Ottoman Hilye Bottles" by Christiane Gruber (University of
Cambridge, MA
via Zoom, RSVP required
4:00 pm
10.22.20
Lecture
"TRANS-SAHARAN SLAVERY AND GNAWA GUINBRI: FROM CONCEALMENT TO EXHIBITION" Cynthia Becker, Boston University
Online (from New York City)
Part of the Silsila Fall 2020 Lecture Series, Islam in Africa: Material Histories
12:30 pm
10.22.20