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
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
19/04/13
- Wakosho: An Overview of Early Japanese books from the Tenri Central Library
Yamanaka Hideo, Teri University
24/04/13
- Transforming Beauty: Artistic and Cultural Contacts Between The Middle East and Europe
Professor Anna Contadini
The Inaugural Lecture of Professor Anna Contadini.
25/04/13
- The Timurid Kalila wa Dimna in the Gulistan Library
Massoumeh Assemi
26/04/13
- SOAS upgrade presentations: Biqing Ouyang, Marine Cabos and Irene Bernabe
Biqing Ouyang, Marine Cabos and Irene Bernabe
Biqing Ouyang
Bronze Mirrors of the Sanguo period
Marine Cabos
Serial representations of iconic sites: a journey in China through landscape photography from the 1840s to 1937
Irene Bernabe
Ghosts, demons and magical animals in the art of the Bakumatsu period (1830s-1868)
May
02/05/13
03/05/13
- SOAS upgrade presentations: John Johnston, Hao Liu and Kristin Scheel
John Johnston, Hao Liu, Kristin Scheel
John Johnston
Tengwang Ge: A Case Study of Changing Depictions of Specific Sites on Chinese Ceramics in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Hao Liu
The purpose, operation and impacts of art investment of the British Rail Pension Fund collection in the fields of Chinese art from 1974 to 1989
Kristin Scheel
The afterlife of Mongol gold textiles in 14th-15th century Northern Europe
08/05/13
- Text and Image in Japanese Books
This workshop will focus on examining the relationship between text and image in a variety of Japanese genres. The workshop is in conjunction with the SOAS exhibition of ‘1000 Years of the Art of Japanese Books’ from the Tenri Library.
08/05/13
- Mughal and Safavid Grotesque Animal Carpets: Sources and Distinctions
Steven Cohen
The 15th Annual Toby Falk Memorial Lecture
10/05/13
- The Bauhaus and China
Robin Rehm, Basel University
15/05/13
- Islamic Glass in a Chinese Context: an Aspect of the Famensi Reliquary Deposit (874)
Professor Roderick Whitfield, Percival David Professor of Chinese and East Asian Art, Emeritus, SOAS
17/05/13
- SOAS upgrade presentations: Sara Peterson
Sara Peterson
- Plant Iconography at Tillya-tepe, Bactria, first century CE
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)
