Thursday 29 October 2015 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Raphael and the Eloquence of Drawing
  Catherine Whistler (Ashmolean), Ben Thomas (Kent)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 5 November 2015 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Cham versus Daumier at the Paris Salon: Caricature, Criticism and what Counts as Art History
  Julia Langbein (Oxford)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 12 November 2015 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Salomon Gautier: Marchand-Amateur in Eighteenth-Century London, Paris and Amsterdam
  Margaret Dalivalle (Oxford)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 19 November 2015 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Architecture about Architecture: Castle Howard and the English Baroque
  Anthony Geraghty (York)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 26 November 2015 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - The Waddesdon Bequest in the British Museum
  Dora Thornton (British Museum)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 3 December 2015 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:30 - Something of an Intruder: What Francis Haskell Brought to Art History
  Tom Stammers (Durham)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 5 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Continuity in churches of Late Antique Bulgaria
  Andrew Poulter
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 12 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Christianity in the hinterland of Roman and Umayyad Philadelphia (Amman).
  David Kennedy
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 19 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Mount Gerizim and the Christian Conversion of Jewish and Samaritan Holy Sites in Late Antiquity
  Simon Ford
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 26 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Pre-Christian imagery in baptisteries in Late Antique Iberia and North Africa – A paradox?
  Stefanie Lenk (Oxford, “Empires of Faith”)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 2 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Between coast and hinterland: settlement development in Late Antique Lycia.
  Kristina Terpoy
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 9 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - The stucco torso from a church in Koke (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) and the art of Byzantium
  Agnieszka Lic
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 16 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Endangered Archaeology in Yemen: the role of satellite imagery analysis in surveying the inaccessible
  Andrea Zerbini, Michael Fradley
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 13 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Re-using the Gods. A Sixth-Century Statuary Display at Sagalassos and a Re-evaluation of Pagan-Mythological Statuary in Early Byzantine Civic Space
  Ine Jacobs (Oxford, Classics)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Friday 14 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Byzantium and climate change. Studying resilience in a complex historical society
  Adam Izdebski (Krakow)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 20 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Materiality and Mobility: Political Geographies of Caribbean Art
  Leon Wainwright (Open University)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Friday 21 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Saint Eustratios of Sebasteia - the intercessor? The appearances of St. Eustratios on the ivory triptychs and wall paintings in the Middle and Late Byzantine period
  Dejan Gorgievski (Kumanovo)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 27 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Behind the Mask: WW1, Plastic Surgery, and the Modern Beauty Revolution
  David Lubin (Wake Forest/Oxford, History of Art)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Friday 28 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Church Donor Portraits: Motives for and modes of prayer in Byzantium. A study of their chronological evolution
  Maria-Nectaria Antoniou
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 3 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - James Byres of Tonley (1733-1817): Jacobites and Etruscans in Grand Tour Rome
  Peter Davidson (Oxford, Campion Hall)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Friday 4 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Evidence for the Conversion of Synagogues in Late Antiquity
  Simon Ford
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 10 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Cost of Marvel and the Price of Magnificence: Pietro Tacca’s Monumental Bronzes
  Hannah Kinney (Oxford, History of Art)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Friday 11 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - The art of Pope Gregory III 731-741): early medieval Rome between Byzantium and the Lombard kingdom
  Masue Kato (Rikkyo)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 17 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - “The last sad testimony of affection”: Picturing the Dead in Eighteenth-Century Britain
  Emily Knight (Oxford, History of Art)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Friday 18 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - The legacy of a Sassanian frontier? Barda’a (Azerbaijan), capital of Arran in the early Islamic period
  Paul Wordsworth
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 24 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Baroque Between the Wars: Curzon Street, Camp, and the Importance of Being Amusing
  Jane Stevenson (Aberdeen)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Friday 25 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "Late Roman and Early Islamic Discoveries at Metelis (Kom al-Ahmer) near Alexandria, Egypt"
  Mohamed Kenawi's (University of Alexandria)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 1 December 2016 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Gothic Machine - Manchester Town Hall and Architecture as Philosophy of Manufactures
  Mark Crinson (Birkbeck)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 19 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Building God’s Empire: Archaeology and the Byzantine Reconquest of Africa
  Corisande Fenwick (UCL)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 26 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Reliquaries of Sugane in the Limestone Massif. New evidence from the Tchalenko Archive
  Pawel Nowakowski (University of Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 13:00 - Drawing the Face of a Mummy Portrait
  Jevon Thistlewood
  Ashmolean Seminars and Events

Thursday 2 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Edessan image in Georgian pictorial and narrative sources
  Irma Karaulashvili (Ilia State University)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 9 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Christian Stucco Decorations in Southern Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf Region, 6th-9th centuries
  Agnieszka Lic (University of Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 16 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Under the Protection of the Mother of God: The Oratory of John VII (705-707) in the Old St Peter’s in Rome
  Maria Lidova (University of Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 23 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - The Late Roman coastal surveillance fort of can Blai (Formentera, Baleares). Imperial defence at the beginning of the 4th century AD
  Ricardo Gonzalez (Nice, CNRS)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 2 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Grave Robbing and the Reuse of Funerary Material in Late Antiquity
  Cristina Murer (University of Berlin)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 13:00 - The Oxford-Paris Alexander project: digitisation of and current research on the coinage in the name of Alexander the Great
  Dr Simon Glenn
  Ashmolean Seminars and Events

Tuesday 25 April 2017 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - ʿAlā fuwīr Tuṭīla. Bilingual contracts and written culture during the Christian conquest of al-Andalus
  Mr Rodrigo García-Velasco Bernal (University of Cambridge)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Tuesday 2 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The origins of royal funerary architecture in al-Maghrib al-Aqṣā
  Mr Péter Tamás Nagy (Khalili Research Centre)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 4 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - ‘Epigraphic Gleanings from the British Museum’
  Georgi Parpulov (University of Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Tuesday 9 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The written culture in Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Spain
  Dr Nuria Martínez de Castilla (Paris, EPHE)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 11 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - ‘From Ignorance to Evidence? The First Invention of Opaque Glazing of Ceramics in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant- A Technological Approach’
  Moujan Matin (University of Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Tuesday 16 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Light and Lighting in al-Andalus
  Dr Tom Nickson (London, Courtauld Institute)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 18 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - ‘Crosses as water purification devices in the Byzantine Near East’
  Stephen Humphries (University of Durham)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Tuesday 23 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Writing a New History of Western Islamic Architecture
  Professor Jonathan Bloom (Boston College)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 25 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - ‘New sigillographic evidence for the history of the Latin Church in the East, 11th-13th centuries’
  Vivien Prigent (CNRS)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Tuesday 30 May 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Life beyond the medina of Cordoba: districts (rabad) and cemeteries (maqābir)
  Dr María Teresa Casal García (Madrid, CSIC)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 15:30 - Glassmaking in Umayyad and post-Umayyad al-Andalus
  Dr Chloe Duckworth (Newcastle University)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 1 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - ‘The world engaged: Monastic economies in Late Antique Egypt’
  Louise Blanke (University of Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Tuesday 6 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - New (graphic) documents for the study of Almoravid and Almohad architecture
  Professor Antonio Almagro Gorbea (Granada, CSIC)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 8 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - ‘From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, once more: making sense of a multi-period rural church in Cyprus’
  Tassos Papacostas (KCL)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Tuesday 13 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - Berbers and Borderlands: state formation and urbanisation in early medieval Morocco
  Dr Corisande Fenwick (University College London)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 15:30 - ‘How were the traces of their edifices erased?’ Archaeological / ethno-historical survey of Jerba, Tunisia
  Professor Renata Holod (University of Pennsylvania)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 15 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Monumentality across media in the Late Antique East: a Workshop
  Various Speakers
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 12 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - The Triconch Church at Aphrodisias: Architecture and Embellishment AD 500–1250
  Hugh Jeffery
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 14:00 - Acculturated natives who rebel. Revivalist, Ottomanist and Pan-Arabist engagements with early Islamic art (1876-1930s)
  Dr Nadia Ali (Wolfson College, Empires of Faith Project)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 17:00 - Revealing Rituals: Early Modern Sculpture before Unveiling
  Alison Wright (UCL)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 19 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Cult and Image of St. George in Medieval Georgian Art
  Ekaterine Gedevanishvili
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 14:00 - The ʿAbbasid envoy and the giant’s bones: notes on the authorship of Ibn Fadlan’s Kitab
  Dr Luke Treadwell (St Cross College, KRC)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 17:00 - Edouard Vuillard: Art and the Politics of Domesticity
  Francesca Berry (Birmingham)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 26 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - A Sculptor and His Workshop in 11th-Century Greece
  Rowena Loverance
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 14:00 - Late medieval pottery from Ephesus
  Dr Georgi Parpulov (Wolfson College, British Museum)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 17:00 - Interviews
  Miguel de Baca (Lake Forest/Oxford, History of Art)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Defining Urban Space: Archaeology and Topography of Mtskheta
  Irina Demetradze
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 14:00 - L’architecture palatiale ziride et hammadide et son influence sur l’architecture normande en Sicile
  Professor Lamia Hadda (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) )
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 17:00 - Contemporary Caribbean art and the moral dimension of global material mobility
  Leon Wainwright (Open University)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 9 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Fun with Achilles. Late Roman Perspectives on the Life of a Greek Hero
  Stefan Faust
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 14:00 - Geometry and architecture in Islamic Jerusalem: a Sufi way
  Dr Archie G. Walls (independent scholar)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 17:00 - The Dream Colony: The Life in Art of Walter Hopps
  Deborah Treisman, Miguel de Baca
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "Painted in Dire Times": Artists and Patrons Coping with Financial Changes in the Late Byzantine and Ottoman Balkans
  Theocharis Tsampouras
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 14:00 - ‘Ways of seeing’: Preparing the new Albukhari Foundation Galleries of the Islamic World
  Dr Ladan Akbarnia (British Museum)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 17:00 - Seductive light, destructive light: balancing presentation and preservation of works of art
  David Saunders (British Museum)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 23 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Literary and Material Evidence for Early Christian Female Pilgrimage
  Grace Stafford
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 14:00 - An impossibility? Writing a book on Persian Pottery
  Professor Oliver Watson (Wolfson College, KRC)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 17:00 - Prominent Chinese Women Painters in Mid-Twentieth-Century Britain
  Michelle Huang (Lingnan University)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Ishkani, a Medieval Georgian Church in Northeast Turkey: Modern Restoration, New Findings
  Irene Giviashvili
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 14:00 - Iran: collecting and curating
  Ms Fuchsia Hart (Wolfson College, V&A Museum)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 17:00 - Dickens Noir: The Persistence of Victorianism in Post-War Britain
  Lynda Nead (Birbeck, University of London)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 18 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Greek painters in Kyiv at the time of the orthodox renewal
  Vera Tchentsova (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Water nymphs and the Kolymbos: The Laskarid Palace at Nymphaion revisited
  Suna Çağaptay (Cambridge/Istanbul)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 15:00 - Researching, Curating and Interpreting Collections
  Matthew Hirst (Curator of The Bedford Collection, Woburn Abbey), Sam Willis (Creative Director & Consultant), Dr Andrew Hann (Senior Properties Historian, English Heritage Trust)
  Heritage Pathway

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Mortuary display and the burial of the rich in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean
  Adam Bollok (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Between ideology and utopia: urban space and landscape in Libanios' Antiochikos
  Panagiotis Doukelis (Athens)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 15:00 - Working with Collections:
  Dr Kate Smith (Senior Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century History, University of Birmingham)
  Heritage Pathway

Thursday 15 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Canon or dynamics? Some reflections on the origin and development of funerary portrait reliefs from Palmyra
  Łukasz Sokołowski (Warsaw)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - See the beauty of these writings: visual elements of Byzantine book epigrams
  Rachele Ricceri (Ghent)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 15:00 - Case Studies in Collaboration: Digital Projects
  Dr Kathryn Eccles and Jamie Cameron (University of Oxford), Timothy Powell (Creative Producer (Digital), Historic Royal Palaces), Rev Dr Paul Edmondson (Head of Learning and Research, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)
  Heritage Pathway

Thursday 1 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Religious and domestic rituals with water and copper alloy vessels
  Brigitte Pitarakis (Paris)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Middle Byzantine dedicatory inscriptions from Macedonia. New insights into patronage: authority, identity and space
  Nektarios Zarras (Münster)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 15:00 - Project Development Workshop
  Various Speakers
  Heritage Pathway

Thursday 26 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Seville and its port during the Late Antique period
  Carlos Cabrera Tejedor (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 3 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Fabric for Plaster: Making and using late antique textiles (resist dyed)
  Katarzyna Lubos (Bonn)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 15:00 - Heritage: The International Context
  John Darlington (Chief Executive, World Monuments Fund Britain), Dr Joanna Marschner (Senior Curator, Historic Royal Palaces), Dr Pegram Harrison (Said Business School)
  Heritage Pathway

Thursday 10 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Late Antiquity in the cape of Akra Lochias: New Findings
  Kyriakos Savvopoulos (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 17 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Wall mosaics in archaeological context in Asia Minor: technical and iconographical potential
  Elisabetta Neri (CNRS-Orléans)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 15:00 - Careers in the Heritage and Museum Sectors
  Emily Knight (Assistant Curator of Paintings, V&A), Dr Danielle Thom (Curator of Making, Museum of London), Dr Jane Eade (Curator, National Trust)
  Heritage Pathway

Thursday 31 May 2018 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Case Studies in Collaboration: International Projects
  Dr Silvia Davoli and Dr Juliet Carey (Oxford/Waddesdon Manor collaboration), Professor Andi Smart (University of Exeter), Dr Bob Bewley (University of Oxford)
  Heritage Pathway

Thursday 14 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:00 - Site Visit: Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
  Nathaniel Hepburn (Director, The Charleston Trust)
  Heritage Pathway

Wednesday 10 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Breakdown
  Jo Applin (Courtauld)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Wednesday 17 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Challenging to Art History: Charlotte Salomon 1917-43 or CS, A Nameless Artist in the Theatre of Memory and War
  Griselda Pollock (Leeds)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Wednesday 24 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Aesop, Velazquez and War
  T.J. Clark (Berkeley)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Wednesday 31 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Seeing Taste: Art and Cuisine in Safavid Iran
  Sussan Babaie (Courtauld)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 1 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Diversifying Heritage
  Laurence Gouldbourne (Head of Diversity & Inclusion, National Trust), Dr Hannah Young (V&A), Rachel Harrison (Pitt Rivers Museum)
  Heritage Pathway

Wednesday 7 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Patterns and Puzzles: Gyorgy Kepes's "Education of Vision"
  John Blakinger (Oxford)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Wednesday 14 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - A Mountain inside a Coconut: Nature, Mining and Early Modern Ingenuity
  Andrés Vélez Posada (Cambridge)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Communicating Heritage - Going Viral: How the MERL became an absolute unit.
  Adam Koszary (Programme Manager and Digital Lead, Museum of English Rural Life)), Lizzie Carver (Programme Manager, National Trust), Eithne Owens (Head of Content, Event Communications)
  Heritage Pathway

Wednesday 21 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Jacopo da Pontormo and the Curious Case of the Black Duke's Daughter
  Dennis Geronimous (NYU/Oxford)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Wednesday 28 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Melt Values
  Allison Stielau (UCL)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 29 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Site Visit: Black Country Living Museum
  Various Speakers
  Heritage Pathway

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Asserting control over outlying provinces: the case of the island of Sicily
  Vivien Prigent (CNRS-MFO)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 24 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - “The light of Christ shines for all” – the meaning of crosses with tetragrams for Byzantine society
  Andreas Rhoby
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 15:00 - Object Handling and Preventative Conservation
  Hannah Lyons (V&A/Birkbeck AHRC-funded CDA Researcher), Andy Owen (Freelance Museum Technician)
  Heritage Pathway

Thursday 31 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - The life, death, and afterlife of statues at the public baths of Salamis, Cyprus (100-700 AD)
  Panayiotis Panayides
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 7 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Monastic communities in the Western Thebes. Reusing pagan space
  Aleksandra Pawlikowska
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 15:00 - Cataloguing and Spectrum Standards
  Dr Sarah Joomun (Digital Collections Manager, Museum of Natural History Oxford), Dr Andrew Cusworth (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Bodleian Libraries), Rachel Skokowski (D.Phil Researcher, Oxford)
  Heritage Pathway

Thursday 14 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Modes of architectural imagery in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Eastern Mediterranean
  Beatrice Leal (East Anglia University)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 21 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Walking on the Bible: Old and New Testament floor mosaics in Late Antique churches and synagogues
  Sean Leatherbury
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 15:00 - Interpretation: A best-practice guide
  Tate Greenhalgh (National Interpretation Specialist, National Trust), Vanessa Moore (National Trust Partnership Support Officer), Dr Gabriella de la Rosa (Lead Editor, Curatorial Content Online, National Trust)
  Heritage Pathway

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - ‘Basilica B’ at Philippi: The phases of construction of an incomplete Church
  Nikos Karydis
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - The Trier ivory conundrum: New remarks on old theories
  Efthymios Rizos
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 14:00 - Methods of Research in Literature and the Visual Arts
  Various Speakers
  PERLEGO

Thursday 2 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Visual Antiquarianism in Mystras
  Andrea Mattiello
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 9 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Womb, black and blackened: Textual and iconic help with hysteria from Late Antiquity and Byzantium
  Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Visualizing Kingship in early Solomonic Ethiopia
  Jacopo Gnisci (University of Oxford)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 23 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Late Antiquity in Pula (Croatia) - St Theodore's Quarter
  Vendi Jukić Buča
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 6 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:30 - Roundtable Event: Methods of Research in Literature & the Visual Arts
  Professor Gervase Rosser (History of Art, St. Catherine’s), Dr Jennifer Oliver (French, St John's), Dr Nicholas Perkins (English, St Hugh's), Rachel Skokowski (French, University)
  PERLEGO

Monday 7 October 2019 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - The Conditional Image: Indenture and Photographic Memory
  Dr Natasha Eaton (University College London)
  Oxford Art History Research Seminars

Monday 14 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Your Crown Illuminates Paris: the Sainte-Chapelle, royal relic cults, and the iconography of architecture
  Dr Emily Guerry (University of Kent)
  Architectural History Seminar

Wednesday 16 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Pompeii - beneath the ash, behind the scenes
  Dr Paul Roberts (Sackler Keeper of Antiquities, Ashmolean Museum)
  Ashmolean Seminars and Events

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - The Other Çatalhoyük: Historic Cemeteries and Cultural Memory
  Sophie Moore
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 16:30 - Nuns’ Dust: The Materiality of Northern German Devotional Production
  Henrike Lähnemann (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Art History Research Seminars
• 16:30 - British Soil? Landscape and Belonging in Post-Imperial Britain (work in progress)
  Dr Giulia Smith (Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford)
  Ruskin Visiting Speaker Series 2019-20
• 17:15 - The Language of the Qur’an in light of the Arab Grammarians and Early Qur’anic Manuscripts
  Marijn Van Putten (Leiden University)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Friday 18 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Photographic Affordances: [Re:]Entanglements in an Ethnographic Archive
  Paul Basu (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
  Pitt Rivers Museum Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

Wednesday 23 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Conserving Pompeii
  Ashmolean Conservation Department
  Ashmolean Seminars and Events

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "Snatch Me Away from the Drunkenness of Passions": Byzantine Devotional Pectorals and the Practice of Prosochē
  Ivan Drpić
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 16:30 - Replication, Repetition, Rupture: Temporalities of Eighteenth-Century Printmaking
  Dr Esther Chadwick (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
  Oxford Art History Research Seminars
• 16:30 - Melanie Smith, Artist's talk
  Please note, booking will open on the Friday prior to the talk.
  Melanie Smith (Artist)
  Ruskin Visiting Speaker Series 2019-20
• 17:15 - The Great Mosque of Damascus and the medieval Islamic mosaic industry
  Beatrice Leal (University of Oxford)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Friday 25 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Human Crop: Tangled Tales and Racial Fictions from the Global Trade in Human Hair
  Emma Tarlo (Goldsmiths, University of London)
  Pitt Rivers Museum Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology
• 14:00 - Symposium: Cold War & the Arts
  Various Speakers

Saturday 26 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:30 - Tintoretto 500: A Symposium
  Please RSVP by Friday 18 October - venetianahg@gmail.com
  Dr Maria Aresin (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen), Dr Gabriele Matino (University of York), Dr Thomas dalla Costa (National Gallery), Dr Tom Nichols (University of Glasgow), Dr Giorgio Tagliaferro (University of Warwick), Dr Roland Krischel (Wallraf-Richartz Museum), Dr Marie-Louise Lillywhite (University of Oxford), Professor Catherine Whistler (Ashmolean Museum)

Monday 28 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Beyond Blenheim: The Duke of Marlborough’s Irish favourites
  Dominic (Ingram)
  Architectural History Seminar

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Georgia in Late Antiquity: Literary and Material Culture
  Manana Odisheli
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 16:30 - The Sensory Politics of an Early Modern Venetian Town
  Dr Emanuela Vai (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Art History Research Seminars
• 16:30 - Erika Tan - Artist's Talk
  Please note, booking will open on the Friday prior to this talk
  Erika Tan (Artist)
  Ruskin Visiting Speaker Series 2019-20
• 17:15 - The archaeology of the San‘ā’ palimpsest: New reflections from the perspective of codicology
  Eléonore Cellard (Collège de France)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Friday 1 November 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Rebel Lives: Photographs from the Lord’s Resistance Army Commanders
  Kristof Titeca (University of Antwerp)
  Pitt Rivers Museum Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology
• 14:00 - Film Screening: Los posibles, Santiago Mitre & Juan Onofri (2013)
  Professor Ben Bollig (Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford)
  Argentina Week

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Mosaics and Memory: Late Antique Figured Funerary Mosaics from North Africa
  Elodie Powell
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 16:30 - Records of Choices: Photographic Encounters in the Archive
  Prof Amy Mooney (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Art History Research Seminars
• 16:30 - Eloise Hawser, Artist's Talk
  Please note, booking opens on the Friday prior to this talk
  Eloise Hawser (Artist)
  Ruskin Visiting Speaker Series 2019-20
• 17:15 - The Management of Architectural Heritage in the Mamluk Sultanate
  Doris Behrens Abouseif (SOAS)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Friday 8 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Anti-kitsch, or How to Make a Socialist Doily: The Politics of Amateur Art in Communist Czechoslovakia
  Nicolette Makovicky (University of Oxford)
  Pitt Rivers Museum Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

Monday 11 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Making architectural drawings: William Dickinson’s paper imagination at Westminster
  TBA
  Architectural History Seminar

Wednesday 13 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:30 - The Salvator Mundi, Attributed to Leonardo da Vinci
  Dr Matthew Landrus (Wolfson College/Faculty of History, Oxford)

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Adornment as Public Spectacle in Late Antique Art and Culture
  Grace Stafford
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 16:30 - Francis Bacon, David Hockney, and Queer Orientalism
  Dr Gregory Salter (University of Birmingham)
  Oxford Art History Research Seminars
• 16:30 - Ana Genoves, Artist's Talk
  Please note, booking will open on the Friday prior to the talk
  Ana Genoves (Artist)
  Ruskin Visiting Speaker Series 2019-20
• 17:00 - 2019 Gandhara Connections Lecture: Heracles' Track to the Indus: Ancients and Moderns in the Swat Valley
  Dr Llewelyn Morgan (University of Oxford)
• 17:15 - Origins of Hebrew calligraphy: from Abbasid Baghdad to Fatimid Cairo
  Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (University of Oxford)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Friday 15 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Into the Abyss: Image Excess in the Slide Library
  Annebella Pollen (University of Brighton)
  Pitt Rivers Museum Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

Monday 18 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - What do we mean when we talk about statues?
  Dr Rahul Rao (Senior Lecturer, SOAS)

Wednesday 20 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Analysing Text and Image in Early-Modern Architectural Treatises using Machine Learning
  Dr Benoit Seguin (ETH Zurich)

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - Islamic Art and Thought Workshop
  Francesca Leoni (Curator of Islamic Art), Umberto Bongianino (Islamic Art and Architecture), Sama Mara (Artist)
• 11:00 - The Day the Sun Stood Still… Representations of Joshua in Late Antique, Byzantine and Crusader Art
  Rowena Loverance
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 16:30 - The Conditional Image: Indenture and Photographic Memory CANCELLED
  Dr Natasha Eaton (University College London)
  Oxford Art History Research Seminars
• 16:30 - Marianna Simnett, Artist's Talk
  Please note, booking will open on the Friday prior to this talk
  Marianna Simnett (Artist)
  Ruskin Visiting Speaker Series 2019-20
• 17:15 - Manuscrits Coraniques de l’Afrique, une étude comparative
  Constant Hamès (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Friday 22 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 09:00 - Disability History Month Workshop 2019
  Vicky Hope-Walker (National Paralympic Heritage Trust), Richard Calver (Optometrist and former UG student), Claire O’Mahony (Continuing Education), Vicky Drew (DAS), Jane Taylor (CTL), Jude Barrett (Ashmolean)
• 13:00 - Animals’ matter: Commodification and singularization of “animal substances” in South Korea
  Julien Dugnoille (University of Exeter)
  Pitt Rivers Museum Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

Monday 25 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 18:30 - Bryonn Bain: BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY - Decolonizing Art to End Mass Incarceration
  FREE BUT BOOKING ESSENTIAL - limited places
  Bryonn Bain (UCLA)

Wednesday 27 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Food remains from Pompeii and the difficulties of reconstructing diet
  Professor Mark Robinson (School of Archaeology, University of Oxford)
  Ashmolean Seminars and Events

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Economic and Urban Realities in Late Antique Dion (Greece) through the Ceramic Evidence
  Kyriakos Fragoulis
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 13:00 - Hamilton Gibb and Saladin: Oxford Scholar and Muslim Hero
  Professor Nasser Jassem (University of Mosul, Iraq)
• 16:30 - Reinventing Art History: Forgery and Counterforgery in Early Modern Chinese Art POSTPONED
  Prof JP Park (University of Oxford)
  Oxford Art History Research Seminars
• 16:30 - Kelly Lloyd - Artist's talk
  Please note, booking will open on the Friday prior to this talk
  Kelly Lloyd (Artist)
  Ruskin Visiting Speaker Series 2019-20
• 17:15 - The ‘Mosque of the Prophet’ and Beyond: A Tentative Reconstruction of the Early Islamic topography of Madina al-Munawwara (622-750) Based on Written Sources
  Aila Santi (American University of Beirut)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 18:30 - Kiki Smith and the Object of Photography (talk at Modern Art Oxford)
  Geraldine A. Johnson (The Department of History of Art)

Friday 29 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Making the National Museum of Qatar: Creating a National Museum for a Local Audience under Global Scrutiny
  Rachel Teskey (Principal Consultant, Barker Langham Cultural Planners)
  Pitt Rivers Museum Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

Tuesday 3 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:45 - Ashmolean Graphic Arts Seminar: 'New Light on the Ashmolean’s Italian Drawings'
  Angelamaria Aceto, Dr Ian Hicks
• 18:00 - 'All That Perishes at the Edge of Land': a film by Hira Nabi
  FREE but booking essential
  Anthony Gardner (Oxford), Emilia Terracciano (Ruskin School of Art, Oxford)

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Early Christian Burials in Sirmium: Recent Finds
  Miroslav Vujovic
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 16:00 - Tutankhamun on Tour
  Dr William Carruthers (East Anglia), Professor Vivian Ibrahim (Mississippi ), Dr Mario Schulze (Zurich ), Professor Christina Riggs (Durham and All Souls College)
• 16:30 - The Sadean Imagination: The Marquis de Sade and the Avant-Garde
  Dr Alyce Mahon (University of Cambridge)
  Oxford Art History Research Seminars
• 16:30 - Sally O'Reilly - Artist's Talk
  Please note, booking opens on the Friday prior to this talk.
  Sally O'Reilly (Artist)
  Ruskin Visiting Speaker Series 2019-20
• 17:15 - Artistic and Architectural patronage of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan
  Gulfishan Khan (Aligarh Muslim University)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Friday 6 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Rethinking Digital Anthropology
  Haidy Geismar (University College London)
  Pitt Rivers Museum Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology

Thursday 16 January 2020 (0th Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:30 - Weaving/Wandering: Kiki Smith and the Middle Ages
  Professor Robert Mills (Professor of Medieval Studies, University College London)

Monday 20 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Architecture of Public Housing in Global Socialism: Soviet ‘technical assistance’ to Mongolia during the Cold War
  Nikolay Erofeev (University of Oxford)
  Architectural History Seminar

Tuesday 21 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Curating (in) a Crisis: Looking at Contemporary Art in an Era of Ecological Breakdown
  Anna Souter (Art History)
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series

Wednesday 22 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - History and the Art of Painting
  Professor Karen Lang (Slade Professor of Fine Art)
  Slade Lectures 2020: Philip Guston (1913-1980): History and the Art of Painting

Monday 27 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Lost and Found in Translation: Early Modern Architecture
  Andrew Hopkins (Università Degli Studi Dell'Aquila)
  Architectural History Seminar

Tuesday 28 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Latitudinal Landscapes: Art and Environment in the Circumpolar North
  Dr Isabelle Gapp (Art History)
  Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar Series
• 14:00 - Life Drawing and the Body Politic: Rethinking Matthew Paris’s Elephants
  Robert Mills (UCL)
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar

Wednesday 29 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Troubled Beauty
  Professor Karen Lang (Slade Professor of Fine Art)
  Slade Lectures 2020: Philip Guston (1913-1980): History and the Art of Painting

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Suspended in time
  Dr Ricardo Pérez-de la Fuente (Museum Research Fellow, Oxford University Museum of Natural History)
  GLAM Research Seminar
• 15:00 - Authenticity in Chinese Heritage: Understanding Authenticity in China’s Cultural Heritage
  Dr Anke Hein (Peter Moores Associate Professor in Chinese Archaeology, Oxford), Dr Christopher Foster (Stanley Ho Junior Research Fellow at Pembroke College, Oxford)
  Heritage Pathway
• 15:00 - Authenticity in Chinese Heritage: Preventative Conservation in North-West China
  Jennifer Richards (Landscape Dynamics Research Cluster)
  Heritage Pathway
• 16:00 - 'Hans Baldung (Grien) and Johann Schott: Rediscovering the most prolific colour printer of the Holy Roman Empire, 1510–1530
  Please note different timings and venues
  Elizabeth Savage (Institute of English Studies, London)
  Oxford Bibliographical Society Lectures
• 17:00 - Hans Holbein the Younger and the Court of Henry VIII
  Dr Elizabeth Goldring (University of Warwick)
  Early Modern Britain Seminar
• 17:00 - Art and the Brain
  Chrystalina Antoniades (University of Oxford), Dr Richard Jolley (University of Staffordshire), James Grant (University of Oxford)
  Brain and Mind

Friday 31 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Blow-up in Bissau: the curator’s cut
  Ramon Sarró (Oxford)

Tuesday 4 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Arms, Arts and Agriculture: Indo-Mexican Intellectual Connections in the Early Twentieth Century
  Jesus Chairez-Garcia (Manchester)
  Modern South Asian Studies Seminar Series
• 16:00 - 'Seeing the Sounds: Music and Musicians in Jewish Book Art, c1500-1700'
  Prof Suzanne Wijsman (University of Western Australia)
  OXFORD SEMINAR IN ADVANCED JEWISH STUDIES

Wednesday 5 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Fable
  Professor Karen Lang (Slade Professor of Fine Art)
  Slade Lectures 2020: Philip Guston (1913-1980): History and the Art of Painting

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 18:00 - The 2020 Colin Ford Lecture. Professor Larry Schaaf "The Future of the Past"
  Larry J. Schaaf

Tuesday 11 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:15 - A Universal History of Ancient Art: Winckelmann’s “History of the Art of Antiquity”
  Prof Élisabeth Décultot (Universität Halle)

Wednesday 12 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Locating the Image
  Professor Karen Lang (Slade Professor of Fine Art)
  Slade Lectures 2020: Philip Guston (1913-1980): History and the Art of Painting

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Authenticity in South Asian Heritage: South Asian Collections at Powis Castle
  Dr Kieran Hazzard (Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Ashmolean Museum)
  Heritage Pathway
• 15:00 - Authenticity in South Asian Heritage: Co-curating South Asian Collections at Derby Museums
  Jonathan Wallis (Curator, National Trust)
  Heritage Pathway
• 17:30 - The Edgar Wind Society presents a talk with artist Caroline Coon
  Caroline Coon (Artist)

Monday 17 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Bramante’s architectural revolution and the Codex Coner
  David Hemsoll (University of Birmingham)
  Architectural History Seminar

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Mary's animal skin: Weaving the signification of the Sevillan Virgen de los Reyes in the times of Alfonso X
  Aleksandra Rutkowska (Oxford)
  Late Medieval Europe Seminar
• 16:15 - "Gentlemen of the China Trade": The China Club and Cultures of Porcelain Retailing in Eighteenth-Century London
  Sam Cheney (New College)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Wednesday 19 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Little Theatre of Philip Guston
  Professor Karen Lang (Slade Professor of Fine Art)
  Slade Lectures 2020: Philip Guston (1913-1980): History and the Art of Painting

Friday 21 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Attempted portraits: photography and the limits of visibility in Evans-Pritchard’s ethnography
  Dr Chris Morton (University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Material Cultures and Homes
  Professor Margot Finn (President of the RHS & Chair in Modern British History at University College London)
  The James Ford Lectures - Family and Empire: Kinship and British Colonialism in the East India Company Era, c. 1750-1850

Sunday 23 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Behind the Images
  Various Speakers

Monday 24 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Christopher Hussey: Creating the Country House
  Dr Oliver Cox (Heritage Engagement Fellow, University of Oxford)
  Architectural History Seminar
• 17:00 - Pick & mix: The non-linear Bible as modern artists visualise it
  Dr Sheona Beaumont (King's College, London)

Tuesday 25 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Researching Archives
  Lucy McCann (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - New Light on the Gift Exchange between China and Central Asia in the Fifteenth Century
  Yusen Yu (Corpus Christi, Oxford)
  The Oxford Society for the Caucasus and Central Asia

Wednesday 26 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Wandering into the Night
  Professor Karen Lang (Slade Professor of Fine Art)
  Slade Lectures 2020: Philip Guston (1913-1980): History and the Art of Painting

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Authenticity in African Cultural Heritage: Ethiopian and Eritrean Heritage in the Bodleian Library
  Dr Mai Musie, Dr Jacopo Gnisci
  Heritage Pathway
• 15:00 - Authenticity in African Cultural Heritage: Rail development and public heritage in Nigeria: Connecting past and future
  Dr Olly Owens
  Heritage Pathway
• 17:15 - West African Artists and Playwrights in Contemporary London Theatres
  Tiziana Morosetti (African Studies, Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Wednesday 4 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Reinventing Art History: Forgery and Counterforgery in Early Modern Chinese Art
  Postponed until next term. Date to be confirmed.
  Prof JP Park (University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - The Saints in the Late Antique Mosaics of Thessaloniki
  Efthymios Rizos
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Friday 6 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Music and Musical Instruments in Chinese Paintings at the Ashmolean Museum
  Dr Paul Bevan (Christensen Fellow in Chinese Painting) (Ashmolean Museum)

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:45 - Rembrandt and the Bible (Biblical Art in Oxford series)
  An Van Camp (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
  The Bible in Art, Music and Literature Seminar Hilary Term 2020
• 15:45 - Rembrandt and the Bible (Biblical Art in Oxford series)
  Registration for this final lecture is essential, numbers are strictly limited. It will take place at the Ashmolean, starting at 3.45pm. To register, please email: christine.joynes@regents.ox.ac.uk
  An Van Camp (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
• 16:30 - **CANCELLED** The Art of Justice: Reconfiguring the Courtroom Object
  TBA
  Centre for Socio-Legal Seminar Series

Tuesday 10 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:15 - Andy Warhol Hated Campbell’s Soup… and other lies of the master
  Blake Gopnik
• 16:15 - Great Expectations: Heritage, Communication and the Museum
  Steven Parissien (Palace House Museum, Newmarket)
  Graduate Seminar in History, 1680-1850

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - The many sides of Byzantine sculpture: textual sources, materials, techniques, ornamental and anthropomorphic motifs
  Catherine Vanderheyde
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
• 13:00 - The shipwreck in a diamond mine: analysing the ivory cargo of a 16th century Portuguese merchant ship
  Dr Ashley Coutu (Research Fellow, Pitt Rivers Museum)
  GLAM Research Seminar
• 14:30 - Private Lives and Public History: Curating Independent Country House Collections
  Only open to Members of the University and Heritage Professionals
  James Peill (Curator, The Goodwood Collection, Goodwood), Dr Stephen Lloyd (Curator, The Derby Collection, Knowsley), Dr Sophie Littlewood (Curator, The Portland Collection, Welbeck Abbey), Alice Martin (Devonshire Collections Manager, Chatsworth), Dr Oliver Cox (University of Oxford)
• 17:15 - Unmasking Violence, Writing Nostalgia: Revisiting the Socialist Period in Angolan Art and Literature
  Dorothée Boulanger (University of Oxford)
  Postcolonial and World Literatures Seminar

Friday 13 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:00 - Attention in Contemporary Theology through Art and Film
  TBA
  Theology of Attention

Wednesday 6 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Heritage Pathway: Museums in an age of self-isolation
  Alex Book (Chief Strategy Officer, Arcade Ltd), Dr Megan Gooch (Head of the Centre for Digital Scholarship and Digital Humanities Support, University of Oxford), Josie Fraser (Head of Digital Policy, National Heritage Lottery Fund)
  Heritage Pathway

Monday 18 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Denunciation or Nostalgia? Remembering Socialism in Angolan Art and Literature
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  TBA
  African History and Politics Seminar

Wednesday 20 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Heritage Pathway: Financial implications of coronavirus for the museums and heritage sector
  Julie Finch (Chief Executive – Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park), Lucy Shaw (University of Oxford), Madeline Odent (Curator and Museum Manager, Royston & District Museum and Art Gallery)
  Heritage Pathway

Thursday 21 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Discussion of the Reformation, art and visual culture
  This seminar will take place on Microsoft Teams; please contact Sarah Mortimer (sarah.mortimer@chch.ox.ac.uk) for an e-invitation
  Roisin Watson, Sarah Mortimer, Katie McKeogh
  Religion in the British Isles, 1400-1700 Seminar

Monday 25 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Regarding the Portrait: The Primers
  Amy M Mooney (Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art), Moderator: Professor Alastair Wright (HoA, Oxford)
  Terra Lectures in American Art: Regarding the Portrait

Monday 1 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Regarding the Portrait: The Photographers
  Amy M Mooney (Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art), Moderator: Professor Deborah Willis (University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University)
  Terra Lectures in American Art: Regarding the Portrait

Monday 8 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Regarding the Portrait: The Progressives
  Amy M Mooney (Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art), Moderator: Melanie Chambliss (Assistant Professor in the Humanities, History, and Social Sciences at Columbia College Chicago)
  Terra Lectures in American Art: Regarding the Portrait

Monday 15 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Regarding the Portrait: The Pragmatists
  Amy M Mooney (Terra Foundation Visiting Professor in American Art), Moderator: Geoffrey Batchen (Professorship of the History of Art, Oxford)
  Terra Lectures in American Art: Regarding the Portrait

Friday 3 July 2020 (10th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:00 - CFP: 2-Day Conference: PERLEGO - Critical Perspectives on Image and Text
  CFP SUBMISSION DEADLINE 1 APRIL More information will be added as it becomes available
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 14 October 2020 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Art History Radio Hour
  Yasufumi Nakamori
  History of Art Research Seminars

Wednesday 21 October 2020 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Art History Radio Hour
  Susan Schuppli
  History of Art Research Seminars

Wednesday 28 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Art History Radio Hour
  Chika Okeke-Agulu
  History of Art Research Seminars

Wednesday 4 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Session 1: Current Issues in Arts and Heritage
  Lizzie Glithero-West (Chief Executive, The Heritage Alliance)
  Heritage Pathway
• 17:00 - Art History Radio Hour
  Maria Loh
  History of Art Research Seminars

Wednesday 11 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Art History Radio Hour
  Charlene Villaseñor Black
  History of Art Research Seminars

Wednesday 18 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Session 2: National Trust and Histories of Colonialism
  Dr Claire Pascolini-Campbell (Interim Research Programme Manager, National Trust), Nadia Hussain (Project Manager, Everyone Welcome Programme)
  Heritage Pathway
• 17:00 - Art History Radio Hour
  Melissa Chiu
  History of Art Research Seminars

Wednesday 25 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Art History Radio Hour
  Peter Brunt
  History of Art Research Seminars

Wednesday 2 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Session 3: Careers in Arts and Heritage (held in partnership with University of Oxford Careers Service)
  Vanessa Moore (Re-Building Heritage Team)
  Heritage Pathway
• 17:00 - Art History Radio Hour
  Jerri Dodds
  History of Art Research Seminars

Wednesday 17 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Performing Innocence: Belated
  Professor Emily C Burns (Auburn University), Moderator: Peter Gibian (McGill Universty)
  Terra Lectures in American Art 2021: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914

Wednesday 24 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Performing Innocence: Puritan
  Professor Emily C Burns (Auburn University), Moderator: Wanda M Corn (Stanford University)
  Terra Lectures in American Art 2021: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914

Wednesday 3 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Performing Innocence: Primitive/Incipient
  Professor Emily C Burns (Auburn University), Moderator: James Smalls (University of California)
  Terra Lectures in American Art 2021: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914

Wednesday 10 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Performing Innocence: Baby Nation
  Professor Emily C Burns (Auburn University), Moderator: Professor Alastair Wright (St John's College, Oxford)
  Terra Lectures in American Art 2021: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914

Thursday 3 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 15:30 - Image and Object Symposium: Shape-Shifting
  Various Speakers
  History of Art Events

Wednesday 20 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Session 1: Current Issues in Arts and Heritage
  Dr Oliver Cox (Heritage Engagement Fellow, University of Oxford), Alice Purkiss (National Trust Partnership Lead), Carla Piper and Rebecca Cowper (Joint Heads of Heritage, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport)
  Heritage Pathway

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  Giulia Marsili (Università di Bologna)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Friday 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - How can stories, histories, art, and music help comprehend a planet in crisis?
  Daniel Grimley (Music), Nayanika Mathur (Anthropology), Amanda Power (History), Fiona Stafford (Literature)

Wednesday 3 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Session 2: Workshop – Sounds in Spaces at National Trust sites
  Dr Liz Green (Senior National Curator, National Trust)
  Heritage Pathway

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Antique Churches: women's honorifics in donor inscriptions in Late Antique Palaestina and Arabia
  Marlena Whiting (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Wednesday 17 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Session 3: Careers in Arts and Heritage
  Various Speakers
  Heritage Pathway

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - The Church of Stoudios in Istanbul from Cyril Mango to Urs Peschlow: Archaeology, Archives, and Modern Times
  Please note that this seminar takes place at the Maison Française d’Oxford
  Olivier Delouis (CNRS/Maison Française d'Oxford), Çiçek Dereli (Central European University)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Thursday 2 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Heavenly Brides: Female Sanctity in Late Antique and Byzantine Art
  Maria Lidova (Moscow)
  Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar

Monday 25 April 2022 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Lecture 1 "Art and Radical Hospitality"
  Charlene Villaseñor Black (UCLA and Oxford)
  Terra Lectures in American Art 2022: Decolonising Art History through Latinx Art

Monday 9 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Lecture 2 “Collapsing Time with Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz”
  Charlene Villaseñor Black (UCLA and Oxford)
  Terra Lectures in American Art 2022: Decolonising Art History through Latinx Art

Thursday 12 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome
  Professor Cammy Brothers (Northeastern University)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Monday 16 May 2022 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Lecture 3 “Art against Necropolitics”
  Charlene Villaseñor Black (UCLA and Oxford)
  Terra Lectures in American Art 2022: Decolonising Art History through Latinx Art

Monday 23 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Lecture 4 “Counter-storytelling Chicanx Art and Conceptualism”
  Charlene Villaseñor Black (UCLA and Oxford)
  Terra Lectures in American Art 2022: Decolonising Art History through Latinx Art

Monday 30 May 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Roundtable: Rethinking the legacies of 1492
  Jerrilynn Dodds, Charlene Villaseñor Black, Giuseppe Marcocci, Tom Nickson, Chair: Gervase Rosser
  History of Art Research Seminars

Wednesday 1 June 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Long Live the Revolution: Inventing Photojournalism in Modern China
  Dr Di Wang (University of Oxford)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Wednesday 8 June 2022 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - A Frame for Thomas Stothard's Voyage of the Sable Venus (1794)
  Please note the change of venue for this seminar
  Professor Cora Gilroy-Ware (University of Oxford)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Wednesday 15 June 2022 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Iberian Exchanges: Editing Art and Artists between Iberian and Global Geographies, 1450-1550
  Dr Costanza Beltrami (University of Oxford), Sylvia Alvares-Correa (University of Oxford)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 20 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Visiting Speaker: Alvaro Barrington
  Postponed to 3rd November.
  Alvaro Barrington (The Ruskin School of Art)
  The Ruskin Visiting Speaker Series

Thursday 3 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Alvaro Barrington | Ruskin Visiting Speaker
  Alvaro Barrington (The Ruskin School of Art)
  The Ruskin Visiting Speaker Series

Thursday 17 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Nina Trivedi | Transhistorical Feedback Loops
  Nina Trivedi (Central St Martins)
  The Ruskin Visiting Speaker Series

Thursday 1 December 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Vore/Loon/Beast/Ruins/Fantasy/Pleasure
  Cancelled due to illness.
  Jenkin van Zyl
  The Ruskin Visiting Speaker Series

Thursday 26 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Uma Breakdown | “Esprit-de-corps / CORPSE EXPLOSION: The cadaver that gives rise to something else.”
  Uma Breakdown
  Talks in Contemporary Art

Thursday 9 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Magdalene Odundo | A Discussion of my Work
  Cancelled due to UCU strike action.
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Magadalene Odundo
  Talks in Contemporary Art

Thursday 23 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Bhanu Kapil
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Bhanu Kapil
  Talks in Contemporary Art

Thursday 9 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Ghislaine Leung | 'Questions'
  Ghislaine Leung
  Talks in Contemporary Art

Tuesday 28 March 2023 (11th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:30 - Conference - Her Discerning Eye: Women Collectors at the Turn of the 20th Century
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 3 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Heritage Pathways: Current Issues in Arts & Heritage: Heritage Tourism
  Dr Chris Tuckley (The JORVIK Group), Katerina Kremmida (Hampshire Cultural Trust), Chair: Alice Purkiss, Chair: Rachel Delman
  Heritage Pathway

Thursday 4 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Jenkin van Zyl | Vore/Loon/Beast/Ruins/Fantasy/Pleasure
  Jenkin van Zyl
  Talks in Contemporary Art

Wednesday 17 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Diverse Visitor Programmes for Diverse Audiences Workshop
  N/A
  Heritage Pathway

Thursday 18 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Artist Talk | Ayo Akingbade
  Ayo Akingbade
  Talks in Contemporary Art

Wednesday 31 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Careers in Heritage: The World of Auction Houses
  Archie Williams (Christie's Auction House), Chair: Damilola Odimayo (Careers Service), Chair: Alice Purkiss, Chair: Rachel Delman
  Heritage Pathway

Wednesday 14 June 2023 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 08:00 - Visit to Hampton Court Palace
  N/A
  Heritage Pathway

Thursday 21 September 2023 (-2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Visions of the Haitian Revolution’s Rebel Women and Men
  François Cauvin (Acclaimed Haitian artist), Dr Rachel Douglas (University of Glasgow)

Thursday 19 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - 'DEMONIC HALF-PERSON'
  Jamie Crewe
  Talks in Contemporary Art

Wednesday 25 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Voicing the Archive
  Marysia Lenwandowska
  History of Art Research Seminars

Wednesday 1 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Why Do We Need to Reimagine Modernism? The Centre-Periphery Problem in the History of Modernist Art
  Partha Mitter (University of Sussex)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 2 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Burn This: A Talk on Narrative, Performance and Impasse
  Cancelled
  Bhanu Kapil

Saturday 4 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - The Annual Beauforest Lecture - The Dance of Life: the art of Mildred Elsie Eldridge (1909-1991)
  Tony Brown (Bangor University)
  Ashmolean Seminars and Events

Wednesday 8 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Journeys for Colour: British Orientalism and the Victorian Colour Revolution
  Madeline Hewitson (Ashmolean Museum)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - "Balkan Baroque," Revisited
  Marko Ilić (University of Oxford)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 16 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Painting - Sound + Contemporary Rhythms
  Andrew Pierre Hart
  Talks in Contemporary Art

Wednesday 22 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Reading big significance into a small decorative effort: steps towards a history of modern British craft
  Imogen Hart (Independent Art Historian)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Tuesday 28 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Carrie Mae Weems and the Afterlives of Images: A Visual Correspondence
  Tina M Campt (Princeton University)
  History of Art Research Seminars

Thursday 30 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Reciprocal Practices
  Florence Peake
  Talks in Contemporary Art

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Desire & Mourning
  Adam Farah-Saad (the Ruskin)
  Talks in Contemporary Art

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Burn This: A Talk on Narrative, Performance and Impasse
  Cancelled!
  Bhanu Kapil
  Talks in Contemporary Art

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Aspects of Palestine in Film
  Larissa Sansour, Rosalind Nashashibi
  Talks in Contemporary Art