Department of History of Art & Visual Studies Pulse of Art History Series.

Join us for a talk by Hamed Yousefi, (Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow).

This Pulse Lecture will take place in Goldwin Smith Hall G22.

Abstract
In the 1880s and 1890s, Muhammad Ghaffari Kamāl al-Mulk, chief painter…

Abstract
Settler colonialism is always as much an attempt to conquer time as it is to conquer land. This is nowhere clearer than in the struggle over Palestine. And at no point starker than in the genocide in Gaza. In this talk, I take as my primary object the Palestinian refugee camps created in the fallout…

Talk by Arang Keshavarzian (Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU)

The Persian Gulf has long been a contested space—an object of imperial ambitions, national antagonisms, and migratory dreams. The roots of these contestations lie in the different ways the Gulf has been defined as a region, both by those…

Come to the LRC to practice your language skills and meet new people. Conversation Hours provide an opportunity to use the target language in an informal, low-pressure atmosphere. Have fun practicing a language you are learning! Gain confidence through experience! Just using your new language skills helps you learn…

In one of the most celebrated instances of modernizing Islamic craft, Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (1922–2019) transformed mirror revetment—a labor-intensive and opulent decorative technique popular in Iranian architecture since the early modern period—into post-minimalist sculptural reliefs and geometric…

More information forthcoming.