Trehan Research Fund for Arts of the Islamic World
The Seran and Ravi Trehan Research Fund in the Arts of the Islamic World is designed to support public research events at the Bard Graduate Center. The Fund will help to underwrite lectures, panels and symposia across the geographical and chronological range of art and artifacts from the Islamic world. In time, the Trehan Research Fund will make the BGC an intellectual rendez-vous for study of the arts of the Islamic world in New York City. Previous lecturers have included Stefano Carboni (2007) and H.E. Sheikha Hussah Sabah al-Salem al-Sabah (2008).
The Trehan Lecture will be delivered on 28 October 2009 by Thomas Leisten (Art and Archaeology, Princeton University), Visiting Professor at the BGC and Curator of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Changing Attitudes Towards Power and Palaces: Architecture Between the Umayyad 'Desert Castles' and Abbasid Urban Imperial Palaces."
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