Harvard Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture: "Imagining a World: Selfhood and Empire in Safavid Iran", Kishwar Rizvi (Yale)
Date:
Thursday, April 22, 2021, 5:30pm
Location:
Virtual Event
Kishwar Rizvi, Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, Department of the History of Art, Yale University. Spring 2021 AKPIA Lecture Series: A Forum for Islamic Art & Architecture
Sponsored by Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University
Harvard Arts Museums, Menschel Hall, Lower Level, Cambridge MA (entrance on Broadway)
The lecture is sponsored by Harvard's History of Art and Architecture Dept.
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