History of Art & Architecture

Freer Medal

Freer Medal Lecture and Award Ceremony: Honoring Gülru Necipoğlu

October 26, 2023

On Friday, October 27, 2023, the National Museum of Asian Art awards its Freer Medal, a lifetime achievement award that honors individuals who have made substantial contributions to the understanding of the arts of Asia throughout their career, to Gülru Necipoğlu, the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University’s History of Art and Architecture Department, who will be honored for her lifetime work in the arts of the Islamic world....

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National Museum of Asian Art Announces Gülru Necipoğlu as Recipient of 2023 Freer Medal

National Museum of Asian Art Announces Gülru Necipoğlu as Recipient of 2023 Freer Medal

January 3, 2023

The National Museum of Asian Art has announced its 2023 recipients of the Freer Medal, a lifetime achievement award that honors individuals who have substantially contributed to the understanding of the arts of Asia throughout their career. This year, the institution’s centennial, the honor will go to Vidya Dehejia, the Barbara Stoler Miller Professor Emerita of Indian and South Asian Art at Columbia University, and Gülru Necipoğlu, the Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic...

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2023 May 08

An Archive of Fragmented Memories: The Concept of Time in the 'Ali Khan Vali Album

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Online (registration information below)

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, the Assyrian Foundation of America, and the Naby Frye Assyrian Fund for Culture are pleased to present

Mira Xenia Schwerda
Getty/ACLS Postdoctoral Fellow in the History of Art 2023-2024; IASH Fellow 2022-2023

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2023 Mar 30

Paintings from the Private Houses of Abbasid Samarra: A Reassessment

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location: 

485 Broadway, Lower Auditorium, Cambridge

CMES and the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University present a talk with

Fatma Dahmani
Harvard AKPIA Fellow, Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, University of Qayrawan, Tunisia

Fatma Dahmani is a historian of Islamic art and architecture specializing in the early Islamic period and she is currently an AKPIA Fellow at Harvard University. She holds a PhD in history of art from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, and has been Assistant Professor of History...

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