History of Art & Architecture

2019 Nov 13

On Feminist Labors

6:30pm to 8:00pm

Location:

Gund Hall, Room 111 (War Room), Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138

MEdiNA GSD is pleased to present

Rosana Elkhatib
Co-Founder of f-architecture; designer, curator, researcher and writer... Read more about On Feminist Labors

2020 Feb 24

(Date change) Modernism and Political Modernity: Tunisian Art in the Time of Bourguiba (1957-1979)

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Ridha Moumni
Tunisia Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies

(Please note: this talk was originally scheduled for February 19)... Read more about (Date change) Modernism and Political Modernity: Tunisian Art in the Time of Bourguiba (1957-1979)

Reflecting on the Many Faces of Mecca, the Lived City

June 28, 2019

“Mecca is lived, experienced, and documented differently by different people,” began Rosie Bsheer, Assistant Professor of History at Harvard and author of the forthcoming “Archive Wars: Spectacle, Speculation, and the Politics of History in Saudi Arabia,” in her keynote address to the colloquium Mecca: The Lived City, hosted in May by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and organized by CMES Director William Granara and Gareth Doherty, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Master in Landscape Architecture Program at the Harvard Graduate School of...

2019 Sep 26

Representing Power at the Court of Ottoman Tunisia in the 19th Century

6:00pm to 7:30pm

Location:

Arthur M. Sackler Building, Room 422, 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA

The 2019–2020 Harvard University Aga Khan Program Lecture Series: A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture & CMES present

Ridha Moumni Ottoman court of Tunisia
Art historian and curator, 2019-20 CMES Tunisia Postdoctoral Fellow... Read more about Representing Power at the Court of Ottoman Tunisia in the 19th Century

Muhammad Ahmed Habib

Preceptor in Arabic, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

38 Kirkland St, Room 108

muhammadhabib@fas.harvard.edu

Jesse Howell

Associate Director of Research Initiatives

... Read more about Jesse Howell

jhowell@fas.harvard.edu

p: 617-495-7596

2019 Apr 16

Urban Archaeology and Classical Heritage in Turkey: Uncovering the lost Roman capital city of Nicomedia

12:30pm to 2:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Tuna Şare Ağtürk embracing emperors, Nicomedia
Hilles Bush Fellow, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Harvard University; Associate Professor, Classical Archaeology and Art History, Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Turkey... Read more about Urban Archaeology and Classical Heritage in Turkey: Uncovering the lost Roman capital city of Nicomedia

2019 May 03

Mecca: The Lived City

9:00am to 5:00pm

Location:

Harvard Hall 102, Harvard Yard, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies is pleased to present Mecca: The Lived City, a colloquium examining the ways in which the city of Mecca is imagined, remembered, represented, and visualized from the perspectives of history, literature, landscape architecture, and urban planning.... Read more about Mecca: The Lived City

2019 Apr 18

Book talk: For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The CMES Book Talk Series presents

Hiba Bou Akar
Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University... Read more about Book talk: For the War Yet to Come: Planning Beirut's Frontiers

Video: Designing Transcendence: Light in Islamic Architecture

April 5, 2018

Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT, delivers the second lecture of the 2018 H.A.R. Gibb Arabic and Islamic Studies Lecture Series. Also see a video of Rabbat's first lecture in the series, and read...

Byzantine Studies Initiative

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Byzantine Studies Research Center (BSRC) at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul have been awarded a three-year research grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to fund a joint initiative providing enhanced and extended opportunities for teaching and research on the Byzantine Empire, placed in the larger context of the medieval Eastern Mediterranean world, with a strong focus on cross-cultural contacts and comparative perspectives.... Read more about Byzantine Studies Initiative

2019 Mar 27

The Disappeared, the Silenced, and the Invisible: Art and the Transformation of Society in Morocco

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The Center for Middle Eastern Studies presents

Carol Solomon Haddad ceux qui restent
2017-19 Visiting Scholar, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University... Read more about The Disappeared, the Silenced, and the Invisible: Art and the Transformation of Society in Morocco

2018 Dec 03

How to Read Armenian (Art)

4:30pm to 6:00pm

Location:

CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138

The 2018-19 CMES Armenian Studies Lecture Series presents

Christina Maranci Armenian illustrated manuscript
Arthur H. Dadian and Ara Oztemel Chair of Armenian Art and Architectural History, Tufts University... Read more about How to Read Armenian (Art)