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2026 Graduate Student Awards in Arab and Islamic Civilizations and Scanlon Keynote Lecture
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Sat, May 9, 2026
6 PM – 8 PM (GMT+3)
Oriental Hall, AUC Tahrir Square
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The 2026 Graduate Student Awards in Arab and Islamic Civilizations and the Scanlon Keynote Lecture will be delivered by Nicholas Warner, director of cultural heritage projects at the American Research Center in Egypt.
We are honored to have Nicholas Warner giving this year’s Scanlon Keynote Lecture titled:
Reviving a Ruin: Conservation of the Shrine of Ikhwat Yusuf in Cairo.
The George T. Scanlon Graduate Student Award in Arab and Islamic Civilizations is given to the most distinguished graduate thesis produced by an ARIC student each year. The prize recognizes Scanlon’s 50-year teaching career at the University, which made an immense impact on all his students, scholars, fellow colleagues and researchers, and even many of those who encountered him only briefly.
Speakers
Nicholas Warner
Director for Cultural Heritage Projects
The American Research Center in Egypt
Nicholas Warner is an architect and architectural historian trained at Cambridge University, UK, and the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. He has lived in Egypt since 1993, where he has participated in and directed numerous projects related to the documentation, preservation and presentation of heritage sites from all periods. Among these are the Quseir Fort Visitors’ Center; the Saqqara New Kingdom Necropolis Project; the tombs of Anen (TT120) and Menna (TT69) in Luxor; the North Kharga Oasis Survey; New York University’s excavations at Amheida, Dakhla Oasis; and the Red and White Monasteries in Sohag. His work in Cairo includes the Cairo Mapping Project (a new map of Historic Cairo showing the plans of approximately 550 buildings in the medieval city); open-air museums in the South Roman Tower of the fortress of Babylon and Matariyya; and the restoration of the Gayer-Anderson Museum. Outside Egypt, Warner has also worked as a consultant on heritage projects in Afghanistan, Myanmar, Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Ethiopia. He joined the American Research Center in Egypt as its cultural heritage projects director in 2020 and is currently responsible for conservation work at the temple of Khonsu in Karnak, the Red Monastery in Sohag, the shrine of Ikhwat Yusuf in Cairo and the house of Howard Carter on the West Bank at Luxor.