Research Seminars & Events
Seminar series hosted by the SOAS Department of Art & Archaeology
- South and Southeast Asian Art & Archaeology Research Seminar
- East Asia Art & Archaeology Research Seminars
- Art & Archaeology of Africa and the Americas Research Seminar
- Research Seminar in Islamic Art and Archaeology
- Cross-Cultural and Comparative Theory
Other departmental events
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2013
February
06/02/13
- Venetian Reuse of Art Objects
Dr Stefania Gervini (Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy)
13/02/13
14/02/13
- Seminar on the Pisa Griffin and the Mari-Cha Lion
This seminar is intended to further our understanding of these bronze objects by sharing the results of the scientific analyses and the historical and art-historical investigations that have taken place in the last ten years.
21/02/13
- Postgraduate Open Evening
Representatives from departments across the School will be available to answer your questions about postgraduate studies at SOAS.
27/02/13
- “Men and gods, and things”: Maratha Art and Moor’s “Hindu Pantheon” (1810)
Holly Shaffer (Yale University)
28/02/13
- Three papers on Islamic Art in the 19th Century
Convened by Professor Anna Contadini
Anna McSweeney, The Afterlife of the Alhambra. Architectural revivals in the 19th century Middle East
Melanie Gibson, Colouring the surface: a taste for 'Persian' tiles in English domestic architecture, 1860-1910
George Manginis, Iznik in Athens: Ottoman-style tile revetments on inter-war public buildings in Greece
March
06/03/13
- Collecting Malay Silver at the V&A
Sau Fong Chan (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)
06/03/13
- The Symbolic Possession of the World: European Cartography in Mughal Allegory
Professor Ebba Koch Professor of Asian Art, Institute of Art History, University of Vienna, Austria
07/03/13
- Department of History of Art and Archaeology PG Third Year Seminar
Various
(buffet lunch 12.30)
13/03/13
18/03/13
- Insight Day at SOAS
Various Speakers
An invitation only event for prospective undergraduate students who have received an offer from SOAS
20/03/13
- Dating the Buddha: New archaeological evidence from Lumbini (Nepal) the birthplace of the Buddha
Robin Coningham (Durham University)
April
10/04/13
17/04/13
- The Bahari Foundation Lecture in Iranian Art and Culture
Dr Barbara Brend (Independent Scholar)
Early ‘Siyah Qalam’ style and the Great Mongol Shahnamah
May
08/05/13
- Mughal and Safavid Grotesque Animal Carpets: Sources and Distinctions
Steven Cohen
The 15th Annual Toby Falk Memorial Lecture
15/05/13
June
05/06/13
- Metallic Memories: Exploring the Art and History of Medals in British India
Shailendra Bhandare
06/06/13
- Postgraduate Open Evening
Representatives from departments across the School will be available to answer your questions about postgraduate studies at SOAS.
12/06/13
- Constructing the Imperial Image: Fath ʿAli Shah’s Portraits and Early Qajar Politics
Dr Francesca Leoni (Yousef Jameel Curator of Islamic Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
