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2015-16; Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University THE AGA KHAN PROGRAM ISLAMIC FOR ARCHITECTURETHE AGA 12issue AKPIA AKTC Established in 1979, the Aga Khan Buildings and public spaces are physical Programs for Islamic Architecture manifestations of culture in societies (AKPIA) at Harvard University and at the both past and present. They represent Massachusetts Institute of Technology human endeavors that can enhance the are supported by endowments for quality of life, foster self-understanding akpia instruction, research, and student aid and community values, and expand aktc CULTURE FOR TRUST KHAN THE AGA from His Highness the Aga Khan. AKPIA opportunities for economic and social 2015-2016 is dedicated to the study of Islamic development into the future. The Aga Khan architecture, urbanism, visual culture, and Trust for Culture (AKTC) is an integral part conservation, in an effort to respond to of the Aga Khan Development Network the cultural and educational needs of a (AKDN), a family of institutions created by features: diverse constituency drawn from all over His Highness the Aga Khan with distinct yet the world. complementary mandates to improve the Harvard HAA welfare and prospects of people in countries Activities p. 2 Along with the focus on improving the of the developing world, particularly in Asia People p. 9 teaching of Islamic art and architecture and Africa. Harvard GSD and setting a standard of excellence Activities p. 20 in professional research, AKPIA also Though their spheres of activity and People p. 22 continually strives to promote visibility of expertise differ—ranging from social MIT the pan-Islamic cultural heritage. development to economic development Activities p. 25 to culture—AKDN institutions share at People p. 30 least three principles that guide their work. & AKDC p. 38 The first is dedication to self-sustaining development that can contribute to long- term economic advancement and social harmony. The second is a commitment to the vigorous participation of local communities in all development efforts. Finally, all Network institutions seek shared responsibility for positive change. 1 AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY 2015-2016 HARVARD LECTURE SERIES: A October 8 February 18 FORUM FOR ISLAMIC ART AND ARCHITECTURE “Landscape of Sovereignty: The Villa in Umayyad “Poetry, Policy and Landscape Representation in Córdoba” Akbari Painting” AKPIA lectures are held on Thursdays, 5:30–6:30 Glaire Anderson Mika Natif pm, in Room 318 of the Arthur M. Sackler Associate Professor of Art History, University Harvard AKPIA Associate; Assistant Professor of Building, Harvard University, 485 Broadway. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Art History, The George Washington University AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE & KHAN PROGRAM ISLAMIC FOR ARCHITECTURE & AGA Co-sponsored with the Committee on Lectures are free and open to the public. For Medieval Studies March 24 additional information, please visit “Lodging Along the Trade Routes: Hans and http://agakhan.fas.harvard.edu/. November 19 Caravanserais in Bosnian Pashadom in the Early “Ef¸s ancı Garden: Questioning the Ideal of Modern Period” September 24 Ottoman Garden Design in the Sixteenth Darka Bilic´ “The Landscapes of Post-Byzantine Anatolia” Century” Harvard AKPIA Associate; Institute of Art History, Nicolas Trépanier B. Deniz Çali¸s Kural Centre Cvito Fiskovi´c , Split Harvard AKPIA Associate; Associate Professor of Harvard AKPIA Associate; Assistant Professor, issue History, University of Mississippi Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul Bilgi University April 21 12akpia “Figural Representation in the Stucco Ornament aktc of Religious Architecture in Khorasan” 2015-2016 Amirhossein Salehi THE AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE FOR TRUST KHAN THE AGA Harvard AKPIA Associate; Lecturer, Department of Art Studies, Semnan University Special lecture added: April 14 “Congress of Kings: Notes on a Painting of Muhammad Shah Rangila” Kavita Singh Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Fellow 2015-16; Professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi 2 AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY 2015-2016 ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS Supporting Student Travel to Conferences The Aga Khan Program at Harvard University The Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture actively promotes, nurtures, and disseminates was pleased to provide either full or partial research on the history of art and architecture support for the following students attending in the Islamic world through the scholarship conferences during the 2015-16 year: AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE & KHAN PROGRAM ISLAMIC FOR ARCHITECTURE & AGA and teaching of its faculty, the activities of its Graduate student Mira Xenia Schwerda traveled students, the sponsorship of the Aga Khan to the 2015 Gingko Library/British Institute of Associateship Program, the AKPIA Lecture Series, Persian Studies Conference, Iran’s Constitutional and the publication of Muqarnas: An Annual on Revolution of 1906 and the Narratives of the the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World. Enlightenment, held September 14-16, 2015 at the British Academy. Mira presented her paper AKPIA Library Acquisition Events “Picturing Revolution: Social and Political Aspects October 21 2015; March 23, 2016; April 20, 2016 of Qajar Photography.” András Riedlmayer, Bibliographer in Islamic issue Art and Architecture in the Fine Arts Library, Graduate student Melis Taner traveled to the hosted three “Show and Tell” events to discuss 12akpia 15th International Congress of Turkish Art, held recent additions to the library’s collections. aktc September 16-18, 2015 in Naples, Italy. Melis 2015-2016 THE AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE FOR TRUST KHAN THE AGA These were informal gatherings for students, presented her paper “Illustrating the Divan: faculty, associates and other members of the The Divan of Baki.” AKPIA community. Graduate student Abbey Stockstill traveled to the two day workshop, What is the City but the People? Urban Identities between the Civic and the Ethnic, held at Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities, Oxford University, March 11-12, 2016. Abbey presented her paper “A Mediterranean Form in a Maghrebi Context: Understanding Almohad Marrakech.” 3 AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Guest lecture at Tsinghua University, Beijing, 15th International Congress of Turkish Art, Spring 2016 class trip to Florence, Pisa and and travel through China with graduate in Naples Italy Genoa students, August 2015 September 16-18, 2015 Gülru Necipog˘ lu’s History of Art & Architecture Professor David Roxburgh presented a lecture at Professor Gülru Necipog˘lu was a participant 122X Proseminar, Architecture in the Early Tsinghua University, Beijing, in the Department in the 15th International Congress of Turkish Modern Mediterranean World: A Cross-cultural of History in August 2015, before embarking on Art, held September 16-18, 2015 in Naples. Italy. Perspective, featured a class trip to Florence, Pisa AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE & KHAN PROGRAM ISLAMIC FOR ARCHITECTURE & AGA site visits throughout Beijing, Zhengding, Xi’an, She chaired the panel “The Image of the Turk in and Genoa during the spring 2016 term (March and Dunhuang with Eugene Wang, Abby Aldrich Italian Art.” 14-19, 2016). The course explored the architecture Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, and graduate of the Mediterranean with emphasis on students in the fields of Chinese, Japanese, and cross-cultural and transregional dynamics, South Asian art. receptions of the Roman-Byzantine heritage, uses of spolia, interactions between architecture and history of science, architectural treatises, ornament, building types and materials. issue Particular focus was placed on the Eastern Travel to India and the Deccan, January 2016 Mediterranean (Ottoman and Mamluk lands, 12akpia David Roxburgh traveled to India and the Deccan aktc and Renaissance Italy), though not excluding the in January 2016 with Professor Jinah Kim, 2015-2016 Western Mediterranean. Professor Alina Payne THE AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE FOR TRUST KHAN THE AGA Associate Professor of History of Art and (Alexander P. Misheff Professor of History of Architecture, with seminar students on the Art and Architecture at Harvard University and South Asian temple. Together, they visited Paul E. Geier Director of Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Buddhist, Hindu, Jain, and Muslim monuments University Center for Italian Renaissance in Mumbai, Kanheri, Elephanta, Ajanta, Ellora, Studies) was the host of the class excursion. Aurangabad, Dawlatabad, Khuldabad, Bijapur, Pattadakal, and Badami. 4 AGA KHAN PROGRAM, DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, HARVARD UNIVERSITY Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local present their current studies in figurative specific fields of academy study. Speakers Edited by Gülru Necipog˘ lu and Alina Payne painting of the pre-Modern Islamic lands, included Michael Cook, Noah Feldman, Hadel Princeton University Press, 2016 examining Arabic, Persian, and Ottoman Jarada, Cemal Kafadar, Gülru Necipog˘ lu, Parimal This lavishly illustrated volume, published illustrated manuscripts, which were produced Patil, Arafat Razzaque, Nicholas Watson in March 2016, is the first major global in the 13th-17th century in Iraq, Greater Iran, and with opening and closing remarks by history of ornament from the Middle Ages to the Ottoman Empire. Nora Lessersohn. AGA KHAN PROGRAM FOR ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE &
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