Fall 2026 AKPIA Lecture Series: An Evening With: A Symposium organized by Professor Nasser Rabbat: Narratives of Destruction.
Building 3, Room 133, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
Poster by Elshareef Kabbashi Please join us on Friday October 9th The Aga Khan Program Fall 2026: An Evening With Lecture Series presents: A Symposium organized by Professor Nasser Rabbat: Narratives of Destruction 2 pm in 3-133 Free and open to the public In person or live stream here https://www.youtube.com/live/-LcQDO7kark?si=99lq2UcarvPpPEXJ Nasser Rabbat, MIT: “Narratives of Destruction.” Tom De Csillery, Harvard University: “Narrating Urbicide after the fall of Tripoli.” Mher Tarakjian, MIT: "Temur’s Conquests in Syria: Historiography at the Outer Limits of Sovereignty.” Ashley Koca, Harvard University: “Reading the New Julfa’s All Savior’s Cathedral in Light of Armenian Urbicide.” Fahad Zuberi, MIT: “Urbicide in Urdu: History, Eschatology and Lament in Shahr Ashob Poetry.” Tianyu Yang, MIT: “The Making of Scorched Earth in Wartime China.” Discussant: Michele Lamprakos, MIT and University of Maryland