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

Tuesday 24 February 2026

Dissociative Realism
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Abbas Zahedi
Venue: 128 Bullingdon Road, 128 Bullingdon Road OX4 1QP
Venue Details: Ruskin School of Art (East Oxford site) Accessibility info: https://www.accessguide.ox.ac.uk/128-bullingdon-road
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 February 2026

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 2026

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 2026

Ancient Stones, Living Meanings: Local Turkish Interpreters' Encounters with Antiquities, 1608–1864
Date: 12 March 2026, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Hüsamettin Şimşir (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
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