Please join us on Friday October 9th when
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
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
