Seminars and Events of interest to The Department of History of Art
Talks:

Tuesday 27 January 2025

Unprecious Instrument (listening, composing, performing) By The Ruskin School of Art
Date: 27 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Rob Shuttleworth
Venue: Ruskin School of Art, 74 High Street OX1 4BG
Venue Details: East Oxford site | 128 Bullingdon Rd, Oxford OX4 1QP (Accessibility info: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/128-bullingdon-road)
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 January 2025

The hidden life of Kūfī scripts: practice-based insights and theories
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Joumana Medlej (Independent Scholar)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 February 2025

The silk core, or lessons from medieval Iberian textile studies
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Maria Judith Feliciano (CSIC, Madrid)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 February 2025

Book Launch - Islamic Objects in Seventeenth-Century Italy: Ferdinando Cospi, the Bologna Collection and the Medici Court
Date: 12 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Federica Gigante (Khalili Research Centre, Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 February 2025

Wall painting in the Islamic West and the aesthetic of naqsh
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Umberto Bongianino (Khalili Research Centre, Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 February 2025

Debt in stone: architectures of finance in late Ottoman Istanbul
Date: 26 February 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Eva Schreiner (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florence)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 March 2025

Picturing marvels, magic and monsters at the Ottoman court, 1574–1603
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Günseli Gürel (Khalili Research Centre, Oxford)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 12 March 2025

A Greek-Orthodox monastery in the desert: Mount Sinai and the material culture of its Arabic (and Islamic) manuscripts
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Venue Details: Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

This list contains talks from the following series:
2024 Terra Lectures in American Art. The Politics of Place in American Art of the Vietnam Era
2025 Terra Lectures in American Art: Unsettled Ground: Western Landscapes, Indigenous Sovereignty and the Spaces of US Photography
Architectural History Seminar
Ashmolean Seminars and Events
GLAM Research Seminar
Heritage Pathway
History of Art Events
History of Art Research Seminars
History of Art Research Seminars
June and Simon Li Lecture in the History of Art
Khalili Research Centre Seminars
Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
Oxford Art History Research Seminars
PERLEGO
Pitt Rivers Museum Seminar in Visual, Material and Museum Anthropology
Ruskin Visiting Speaker Series 2019-20
Slade Lectures 2020: Philip Guston (1913-1980): History and the Art of Painting
Slade Lectures 2025: Gaps
Terra Lectures in American Art 2021: Performing Innocence: US Artists in Paris, 1865-1914
Terra Lectures in American Art 2022: Decolonising Art History through Latinx Art
Terra Lectures in American Art: Regarding the Portrait