HAA Events

Stefan Weber, Director of the Museum for Islamic Art, Pergamon Museum in Berlin Cosponsored with the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Islamic Studies Program.

Join acclaimed art historian Cécile Fromont for a lecture exploring the intersection of artistic creation and scholarship. Cécile Fromont specializes in the visual, material, and religious cultures of Africa, Latin America, and Europe between 1500 and...

Cécile Fromont – Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University In the first half of the eighteenth century, African men and women enslaved or free, living in plantations or cities around the Atlantic, created empowered packets that...

More information forthcoming Title: Framed: Pictures from Asia in Eighteenth-Century Europe Speaker: Kristel Smentek (MIT) Chair: Ewa Lajer-Burcharth Date: Tuesday, November 17th, 2026. Time: 5:30pm, reception to follow at 7pm Room: 485 Broadway Room 422

TBD Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series Details to follow.

TBD Part of the Ancient Studies at Harvard Visitors Series Details to follow.

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...