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Khalili Research Centre Seminars
Thursdays at 17:15 KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford OX1 2LG
For more information please contact the KRC Administrator mailto:paula.leite@tss.ox.ac.uk
Type: Seminar Series
Series organiser:
Paula Leite
Timing: Thursdays, 17:15
Web Address:
https://krc.web.ox.ac.uk/
Organising department: Khalili Research Centre for the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East
Talks:
Thursday 23 October 2025
Collecting Iznik: the Benaki Museum, its patrons and influences in twentieth-century Greece
Date: 23 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Mina Moraitou (Benaki Museum, Athens)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 30 October 2025
Clothing the Caliphate: dress cultures of the early Islamic period
Date: 30 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Jochen Sokoly (VCUarts Qatar)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 6 November 2025
From Bosphorus to Nile: mapping, depicting, and portraying the Ottoman imperial world in the late eighteenth century
Date: 6 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Ayşe Hilal Uğurlu (MEF University, Istanbul)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 13 November 2025
Translating the image: art, science and global imagination in the first Islamic description of the New World (Tarih-i Hind-i Garbi)
Date: 13 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Sinem Arcak Casale (Minnesota)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 20 November 2025
New directions in the study of ivories from the Islamic world: a talk and handling session
Date: 20 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A, and Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 27 November 2025
What was modern Islamic art?
Date: 27 November 2025, 16:00 - 17:00
Speaker
:
William Gallois (Exeter)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Documenting Multiculturalism: The Arabic Documents of Sicily
Date: 27 November 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
s:
Jeremy Johns (Khalili Research Centre),
Dan Burt (Khalili Research Centre)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Thursday 4 December 2025
Painting and poetry at the court of Fath Ali Shah Qajar (1797–1834)
Date: 4 December 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker
:
Fuchsia Hart (Victoria and Albert Museum)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Resear Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers:
TBA
Hosts:
TBA
Editors:
Laura Spence,
Belinda Clark
