Public Programming

October 30th, 2024
5:30–7:00pm
“Madinat al-Zahra Gallery Talk: Curators in Conversation” with Antonio Vallejo Triano and Eduardo Manzano Moreno

November 13th, 2024
5:30–7:00pm
Teacher Training Tour and Gallery Workshop for ISAW Expanding the Ancient World Outreach Program, “Discovering Life in al-Andalus through "Madinat al-Zahra: The Radiant Capital of Islamic Spain" with Dr Carl Walsh, ISAW Curatorial assistant, NYU

November 19th, 2024
5:30–7:00pm
Public Lecture, “The sight that I offer is the fairest of sights”: Ivory, Concubines, and Transcultural Exchange in Umayyad Cordoba” with Dr Abigail Balbale, Assistant Professor, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies, NYU

December 5th, 2024
5:30–7:00pm
Public Lecture, “Umayyad Memories from Damascus to Cordoba” with Dr Antoine Borrut, Associate Professor of History, History department, University of Maryland
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December 7th, 2024
1:00–3:00pm
Gallery Drawing Workshop with Joan Chiverton 
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December 12th, 2024
5:30–7:30pm
Exhibition Musical Performance: “The Bards of Andalus Taught Us Love: Shu’ara Al-Andalus, ta’allamu l-‘ishq” with the New York Andalus Ensemble, featuring traditional Andalusian music
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January 22nd, 2025
5:30–7:00pm
Public Lecture, “The Caliph’s Non-Muslim Subjects: Protected People in Umayyad al-Andalus” with Dr. Janina Safran, Associate Professor of History, Middle Eastern Studies, Penn State 
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February 8th, 2025
1:00–3:00pm
Gallery Drawing Workshop with Joan Chiverton
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February 12th, 2025
5:30–7:00pm
Public Lecture, “The Landscape Architecture of Madīnat al-Zahrā’: Politics, Theology and Ecology” with Dr. Olga Bush, Visiting Scholar, Vassar College
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