"The Creation and Representation of Order: Ghiyas al-Din Tughluq’s Tughluqabad"
SPECIAL GUEST LECTURES FOR THE AKPIA SERIES

Speaker: Sunil Kumar
Professor, History of Medieval India, History Department Head, Delhi University

Co-sponsors, Standing Committee on Medieval Studies; Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

“Habsburg Alba Amicorum in Ottoman Constantinople”

Robyn Radway 
Assistant Professor of History, Central European University

“Between Khurasan, Iraq, Egypt and al-Andalus: New Thoughts on the Processes of Commissioning Caliphal Works Under the Early Islamic Caliphates”

Jochen Sokoly
Associate Professor, Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar

PLEASE NOTE: THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

“Towards an Understanding of Early Islamic Architectural Ornament: Ancient Near Eastern Influences at Samarra”

Ann Shafer
Independent scholar; Adjunct Assistant Professor, SUNY-FIT; Harvard AKPIA Associate

“Re-thinking ‘National Style’: Actors, Tendencies and References”

Müjde Dila Gümüş
Researcher, Istanbul University; Harvard AKPIA Associate

"Qusayr 'Amra: The Pandora's Box of Early Islamic Aesthetics"

Nadia Ali
Faculty Fellow, Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University

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

Ridha Moumni
Art Historian, Curator; Harvard CMES Fellow

Co-sponsored with The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University

Speaker:
Eric Tagliacozzo
Professor of History
Cornell University

Abstract:
This talk looks at three different ways that the colonial state used new technologies to try to pursue the imperial project in maritime Southeast Asia. First, we will look at the role of telegraphs along the coasts of French Indochina in the late nineteenth century. From there, we will analyze the idea of building a trans-oceanic canal across the Isthmus of Kra, in semi-independent Siam (what is today Thailand). Finally, we will also look at the role of lighthouses as Foucauldian instruments of... Read more about "Ghosts in the Machine: Technologies of Imperialism in Maritime Southeast Asia"

Albert Laguna (Yale University)
“On the Comedy of Race” 
Presented by the Warren Center’s Workshop on “Past, Present, and Future of Ethnic Studies”

(See event flyer here)

Read more about Warren Center Workshop: "On the Comedy of Race" 

The authors Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Imani Perry, and Robert Reid-Pharr will join in conversation to discuss how their work as biographers speaks to key contemporary discussions about black politics, community, identity, and life.

Perry will consider her recent book, Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry, while Reid-Pharr and Brown-Nagin will share perspectives from their own research, writing, and forthcoming books on, respectively, James Baldwin and Constance Baker Motley.

... Read more about Writing Black Lives

Smallpox Against Itself: Exploring the History of Inoculation in Tibet

Speaker: Lobsang Yongdan, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bonn

Hosted by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Abodes of Alien Ancestors: Buddhist Geography and Genealogy in 18th Century Beijing

Speaker: Wen-shing Chou, Associate Professor of Chinese Art, Hunter College

Hosted by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Speaker:  Lan Wu, Assistant Professor of History, Mount Holyoke College

Abstract: How did monasteries amass wealth in Qing China’s Buddhist Inner Asia? How did the Qing imperial enterprise affect Buddhist praxis on the ground? In this lecture, I will discuss a wide range of practices that brought wealth into Tibetan Buddhist monasteries in the eighteenth century. At the center of my study is the making of Beijing’s Yonghegong, which exemplified the evolving practices that contributed to the proliferation of wealthy Buddhist communities across...

Read more about IAAS Lecture Series - Monastic Wealth in Qing China’s Buddhist Inner Asia

Why Pots (Don't) Matter: Complexity in Bronze Age Eurasia

Speaker: Paula Dupuy, Assistant Professor of Anthropoogy, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Hosted by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies

Dangling Threads to Examine the Channels: Tales of Pulse Diagnosis in Tibetan and Chinese Literature

Speaker: William McGrath, Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Manhattan College

Hosted by the Committee on Inner Asian and Altaic Studies