2013 Slade Lectures unveiled
The 2013 Slade Lectures in Fine Art will be given in the Lent Term by Gülru Necipoglu. She has been the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University since 1993, where she earned her PhD in 1986. Her dissertation was titled 'The Formation of an Ottoman Imperial Tradition: the Topkap? Palace in the 15th and 16th Centuries'. In 1986/87, Gülru Necipoglu was appointed Lecturer at the Columbia University, Department of Art History and Archaeology, and Mellon-David Heyman Fellow in Urban Studies at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities. Between 1987 and 1993 she taught as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the Harvard University Department of History of Art and Architecture. She is a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a board member of the Centro Internazionale di Studi di Archittettura Andrea Palladio in Vicenza. She is the editor of Muqarnas: An Annual on the Visual Cultures of the Islamic World and h er books include Architecture, Ceremonial Power: The Topkapi Palace (1991), The Topkapi Scroll, Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture (1995), and The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire (2005).
