HAA Events

VISUAL REPRESENTATION, MATERIALITY, AND MEDIUM SPEAKERS: Erika Naginski, Harvard Graduate School of Design When, in the mid-18th century, the Arcos da Lapa (or Aqueduto da Carioca) was inaugurated in Rio de Janeiro, it heralded not only the arrival of...

Entangled with the River: The Making of Safavid Isfahan from Watershed to Body Information forthcoming... Sahar Hosseini Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh

High Stakes, Big Data: The Existential Entanglements of the Abbasid Nilometer in Cairo More information forthcoming... Heba Mostafa Associate Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of Art History, St. George, University of Toronto

Palimpsests Past and Present: The Sufis and Sultans of the Maklī Necropolis, 1380–1660 Established as a small hermitage in the late fourteenth century, the Makli necropolis, in what is now Sindh province, Pakistan, grew over three centuries to a site of...

More Information Forthcoming... Co-sponsored with the Department of Medieval Studies

More details to be announced... Stephan Wolohojian John Pope-Hennessy Curator in Charge, European Paintings The Metropolitan Museum of Art Stephan Wolohojian received his PhD from Harvard University and has held academic as well as museum positions. His...

Speaker: Jinah Kim, George P. Bickford Professor of Indian and South Asian Art, Department of History of Art & Architecture, Harvard University How blue is Krishna? The Hindu god Krishna is most often depicted blue today, but in pre-modern Indian art his...

Design increasingly shapes the future not through objects alone, but through systems—interfaces, environments, infrastructures, algorithms, and protocols that organize relations, behavior, and perception. As design expands into planetary, computational...

Art history has long framed modernism as a Western, twentieth-century phenomenon, positioning it within a largely Euro-American narrative of rupture and innovation. If, however, modernism and postmodernism are recast as heuristic rather than strictly...

Invited Speaker: Professor Eugene Y. Wang The 14th MaMa Charitable Foundation Visiting Professor in Buddhist Studies, HKU Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University Cosmic art imagines humanity’s place in the vastness of the...