HAA Events

Join [The Carpenter Center] for a conversation on the exhibition Cosmos Falling, led by curator Danni Shen, with Madison Brown, John R. and Barbara Robinson Family Curatorial Fellow in Photography at the Harvard Art Museums, and Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich...

BUDDHIST STUDIES FORUM SPEAKER: Janice Leoshko, UT Austin Janice Leoshko taught courses about various issues concerning the art of South Asia as well as Buddhist Art throughout Asia. While her research primarily concerns the development of Buddhist...

CELESTIAL SPHERES Speaker: Shep Doeleman, Harvard University / Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Can you take a photograph of a black hole? What does it mean to have imaged an object whose nature is to remain unseen? Black holes are cosmic objects so...

Multimedia Exhibition Public Visit: March 21–22, Saturday & Sunday, 2:00–5:00 pm This exhibition is grounded in an interdisciplinary framework that integrates neuroaesthetics, cognitive science, media theory, and contemplative studies—while remaining...

“ Vaulting Techniques in Iranian Islamic Architecture : An Unpublished Study by Myron Bement Smith and Doǧan Kuban” David J. Roxburgh Art, architecture, and archaeology played a new nation-building role in Iran among the modernizing reforms initiated by...

Speaker: Christiane Gruber (Mehmet Ağa-Oğlu Collegiate Professor of Islamic Art History, University of Michigan) Image: “Tree of Chivalry” ( shajarat al-futuwwa ) checkerboard and diagram showing the ground plan of the Dome of the Rock, Safavid multi-text...

Speaker: Serpil Bağcı (AKPIA Fellow; Professor, Department of History, Bilkent University) The Anatolian poet Ahmedi’s (d. 1413) Iskendernāme is a Turkish verse legend of Alexander the Great. Although his account is primarily based on the Alexander...

Speaker: Cécile Fromont Click here for more information.

Making and Unmaking Value II: Transformations through Space, Harvard History of Art and Architecture, April 23-25, 2026, is the second in a series of five interlinked symposia held at Harvard University and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of...

Speaker: Melissa McCormick, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Japanese Art and Culture This talk develops a kinesthetic approach to the ceramic and poetic practice of the nineteenth-century Buddhist nun Ōtagaki Rengetsu (1791-1875). Inscribed with verse and...