Each semester Silsila: Center for Material Histories, a New York University center dedicated to material histories of the Islamicate world, holds a series of lectures and workshops, which are open to the public. Full details of our Autumn 2019 program, listed below, can be found at: http://as.nyu.edu/silsila/events.html.
Lectures take place at 4 Washington Square North, New York, and begin at 6.30pm, but please note that rsvp is essential to ensure a place.
To rsvp please visit http://as.nyu.edu/silsila/events/2019-2020.html.
Priscilla Soucek is Director of Graduate Studies; John L. Loeb Professor in the History of Art at the IFA. She was trained at the American University of Beirut (BA), the University of Wisconsin (MA) and the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University (PhD). Her research interests include Persian and Arabic manuscripts, the long-term consequences of the Mongol invasions for the visual culture of the Near East, portraiture and history of collecting.
*Space is limited. If for any reason you have rsvp'd and cannot attend, please use the form below to let us know.