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LECTURE PROGRAM 2008-2009
Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 6:30 PM
 Speaking Volumes: The Falnama (Book of Omens) in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Iran and Turkey
Dr. Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art at the Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Co-sponsored with Friends of the Freer House
Sunday, May 3, 2009, 2 PM
 Charles Lang Freer and Egypt
Dr. Ann C. Gunter
Professor, Northwestern University and former curator of Ancient Near Eastern Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
Co-sponsored with Friends of the Freer House
Friday, April 24, 2009, 6:30 PM
 Discovering Islamic art in Khedivial Cairo: Some Early Collections and Displays
Dr. Mercedes Volait, Directeur de Recherche, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, and Directeur, IN VISU Research Unit, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art, Paris
Sunday, November 16, 2008, 2 PM
 Including Dogs, Horses, Cows, Dalits, and Women: An Alternative Narrative of the Hindus
Dr. Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade Distinguished Service Professor of the History of Religions, University of Chicago
Lecture Hall, $20 per person
Thursday, October 2, 2008, 6:30 PM
 Splendor and Intimacy: The Spectacular Private World of the Mughals
Dr. Madhuvanti Ghose, Alsdorf Associate Curator of Indian, Southeast Asian, Himalayan and Islamic Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
Sunday, September 14, 2008, 2 PM
 Artist's Lecture: Kenro Izu
In conjunction with the exhibition Kenro Izu: Sacred Places.
Sponsored with The Forum for Prints, Drawings and Photographs, and the Japan-America Society
LECTURE PROGRAM 2007-2008
Tuesday, May 13, 2008, 6:30-7-30 PM DIA Lecture Hall
Members Only Reception to Follow in Kresge Court
Sesshu (1420-1506), Japan's Most Famous Zen Monk-Painter
 Dr. Yukio Lippit
Assistant Professor of Japanese Art, Harvard University
Wednesday, April 30, 2008, 6:30-7-30 PM DIA Lecture Hall
Members Only Reception to Follow in Kresge Court
Manipulating the Imaginary: A Trip to the Wonderland of Ancient Miniature Sculpture from Mesopotamia
 Dr. Gregory Areshian
Research Associate and Adjunct Professor at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 6:30-7-30 PM DIA Lecture Hall
Members Only Reception to Follow in Kresge Court
Between Logos and Light: Depicting the Prophet Muhammad from 1300 to Today
 Dr. Christiane Gruber
Assistant Professor of Islamic Art and of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Indiana University at Bloomington
Friday, December 14, 2007, 6:30-7-30 PM DIA Lecture Hall
Members Only Reception to Follow in Kresge Court
The many lives of a South Indian goddess in the Detroit Institute of Arts
 Dr. Padma Kaimal
Associate Professor of Art and Art History and Robert Hung-Ngai Ho Associate Professor in Asian Studies, Colgate University
Wednesday, September 5, 2007, 6:30-7-30 PM DIA Auditorium
The Shoso-in: Imperial aesthetics and art handling in 8th century Japan
 Dr. Marshall Wu
Former Senior Curator of Asian Art, The University of Michigan Museum of Art
LECTURE PROGRAM 2006-2007
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
6:30-7:30 pm Lecture Hall
7:30-8:30 pm Reception, Rivera Court
Hidden Educations: Exploring the DIA Collection with New Eyes
An Illustrated Lecture and Conversation
Dr. Roger Lipsey
Independent Scholar, New York
 Friday, May 4, 2007
6:30-7:30 pm Lecture Hall
7:30-8:30 pm Reception, Kresge Court
Photography, Islam, and Art: The Nineteenth Century and Now
Dr. Frederick Bohrer
Associate Professor of Art, Hood College,
Frederick, Maryland
Right: Mosque of Qait Bey, Cairo, c. 1880, Abdullah Frères, Turkish, Albumen print. Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, acc. no. X1989.704
Special Lectures on Photography
 Wednesday, April 25, 2007
6:30-7:30 pm Lecture, Crystal Gallery
7:30-8:30 pm Reception, Crystal Gallery
Photography in Japanese Culture
Dr. Anne Tucker
Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator of
Photography, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Right: Hair Dressing, c. 1885, Unknown Japanese Artist, Hand-tinted albumen print. Gift of an anonymous donor, Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, acc. no. F46.167
Sunday, February 11, 2007
1:00-5:00 pm, Lecture Hall
Reception to follow, Kresge Court
Symposium: The Art and Influence of the Turkish Carpet
Dr. Jon Thompson
Beattie Fellow in the History of Carpets, Ashmolean Museum,
University of Oxford
Dr. Walter Denny
Adjunct Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst
Dr. Louise Mackie
Curator of Textiles and Islamic Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art
Dr. Esin Atil
Research Associate, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
This event is a joint program between AIAF and the turkish Cultural Foundation.
Above: “Lotto” Carpet, Wool on a wool foundation, c. 1550-1600, Western Anatolia, Turkey. Gift of Dr. Eva Cassirer, Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, acc. no. F49.7
Friday, December 8, 2006
6:30-7:30 pm Lecture Hall
7:30-8:30 pm Cash Bar, Great Hall
On the Origin of Cities in Mesopotamia:
Recent Excavations at Tell Brak, Northeastern Syria
Dr. Geoff Emberling
Director, Oriental Institute Museum at the University of Chicago
Above: Neo-Assyrian Cylinder Seal, Carnelian, 8th Century BC, Mesopotamia.
City of Detroit Purchase, Collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts, acc. no. 30.318
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