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

Thursday 16 October 2025

The Tower of the Winds in Ottoman Athens: temple, pharos, tent and mosque
Date: 16 October 2025, 17:15 - 18:15
Speaker : Elizabeth Key Fowden (Cambridge)
Venue Details: KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 22 October 2025

Tudor Liveliness? Discovering Vividness in Post-Reformation England
Date: 22 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Christina Faraday
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Wednesday 29 October 2025

Gold Rush, Congo Style: Gustav Klimt’s Marble Mosaic Frieze in the Palais Stoclet
Date: 29 October 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Deborah Silverman
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
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

Wednesday 5 November 2025

Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie (Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation)
Date: 5 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Iris Moon
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 November 2025

The Challenge of Historical Distance: Historicism and Anachronism in the Study of Art International Conference
Date: 6 November 2025, 9:00 - 16:00
Speaker s: Armin Bergmeier (University of Leipzig), Saida Bondini (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz), Donal Cooper (University of Cambridge), Heiko Droste (Stockholm University), Jas Elsner (University of Oxford), Michael Ann Holly (Clark Institute), Maria Loh (Princeton), Keith Moxey (Barnard College), Susie Nash (The Courtauld Institute of Art), Caspar Pearson (The Warburg Institute), Hannah Skoda (University of Oxford), Nancy Thebaut (University of Oxford), Ben Thomas (Trinity College Dublin)
Venue Details: Nederlands Interuniversitair Kunsthistorisch Instituut (NIKI) Florence, Viale Torricelli 5, 50125 Firenze, Italy
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

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

Tuesday 11 November 2025

Critical (Ms.) Fortune: A Feminist History of the Italian Renaissance?
Date: 11 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Maria Loh
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 12 November 2025

Art History and Projective Tests (Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation)
Date: 12 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Whitney Davis
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
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

Wednesday 19 November 2025

The Natural History of Style: Specimens, Albums, and the History of Art in Early Modern Japan (Sponsored by the June and Simon Li Foundation)
Date: 19 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Kris Kersy
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
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

Wednesday 26 November 2025

Everywhen: Photography and Indigeneity
Date: 26 November 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Geoffrey Batchen
Venue: Radcliffe Observatory,
Venue Details: Cinema, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities
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

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