In association with the Masters Project, Manege will run a cycle of lectures from Eastern Studies scholar Apollinaria Avrutina as a part of the additional programme for the exhibition “Qatar Contemporary: Art and Photography”. Lectures will meet in Manege’s cafe on Saturdays at 17:00. Entry is free, but registration is required.

Schedule of lectures:

24 November--”What is Islamic Art?”: about the specifics, stages and stacked rows of Islamic art in the Middle Ages, modern history, and currently. Entry is free, but registration is required.

1 December--”Word and Letter. The Meaning of Words in Islamic Culture”: about calligraphy and its use on architectural structures and in works of art. Entry is free, but registration is required.

8 December--”European Influence on Islamic Art”: an analysis of European trends in Islamic art--in the Middle Ages, modern history, and currently. Entry is free, but registration is required.

The lecturer is Apollinaria Avrutina, scholar of Eastern Studies, docent in the Department of Asian Studies at the St. Petersburg State University, literary translator of Orhan Pamuk, author of courses on Muslim civilizations, and director and founder of the Russian-Turkish cultural center “Zulfiarus”.