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
2011
January
12/01/11
13/01/11
- Yarshater Lecture Series
Professor Sheila Blair, Norma Jean Calderwood University Professor of Islamic and Asian Art, Boston College
13, 14, 17 & 18 January
From the Samanids to the Safavids: Persian Art in Medieval Times
- Word and Image: A bowl from Nishapur
- Perfuming the Air: a Rosewater sprinkler from Herat
- Monumentality under the Mongols: The tomb of Uljaytu at Sultaniyya
- Rediscovering roots: the Ardabil Carpets
14/01/11
- 'The Tibetan Empire in Central Asia'
Dr Amy Heller (CNRS)
February
02/02/11
- Changing Mughal Landscape
Ursula Weekes
04/02/11
- Tombs of Han-Period Luoyang
Lukas Nickel (SOAS & UCL)
09/02/11
- An Overview of the Recent Discoveries of the Mamluk and Ottoman Pottery from the Citadel of Damascus
Dr Véronique François (CNRS Aix en Provence, France)
11/02/11
- Ideal Femininity and the Seductive World of Japanese Department Stores: Two Readings of YANAGI Miwa’s Elevator Girls 3F
Lena Fritsch (Bonn University)
23/02/11
- Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Samadhi: the last great example of indigenous architectural style in the Punjab
Nadhra Shahbaz Naeem Khan (SOAS Charles Wallace Pakistan Fellow 2011-12)
March
02/03/11
- Imported textiles at the Mughal court
Rosemary Crill
02/03/11
- Ottoman Istanbul Displayed in London Panorama Theatres, 1800-1863
Professor Namik Erkal, Middle East Technical University, Istanbul
04/03/11
10/03/11
24/03/11
April
06/04/11
- The Tirtha at Ellora
Micaela Soar
27/04/11
- The Past is Not Dead, the Story of Qajar Textiles in South Kensington
Ms Jennifer Wearden (Former Senior Curator (Textiles) in the Department of Furniture,Textiles & Fashion, V&A and now Honorary Research Fellow in the V&A
May
04/05/11
- From the Persian to the Mughal world: Muhammad Juki’s Shahnamah of Firdausi
Barbara Brend
The 13th Annual Toby Falk Memorial Lecture
11/05/11
- Middle Cambodia
Ashley Thompson (University of Leeds)
11/05/11
- Mamluks & Mongols, Franks & Armenians: The Archaeology of Antioch and Cilicia in the 13th-14th Centuries
Professor Scott Redford (Department of Archaeology and History of Art, Koç University, Istanbul)
25/05/11
- The Impact of Popular Mughal Painting 16th-17th Century
Krista Gulbransen
27/05/11
June
01/06/11
08/06/11
- The Nguyen Dynasty palaces, tombs and collections
Vu Hong Lien
08/06/11
- Mecca's First Photographers (1880-1890): Lives, Activities and Work
Professor Jan Just Witkam (Leiden University, the Netherlands)
15/06/11
- Ancient Vietnam: History and Archaeology
Anne-Valerie Schweyer
22/06/11
- New reflections on Banteay Chhmar temple, Cambodia
Professor Claude Jacques
October
05/10/11
12/10/11
- The Making of the Modern Indian Craftsman: Devi Prasad
Naman Ahuja (JNU, New Delhi)
12/10/11
- A tapestry at Powis Castle based on the Louvre’s ‘Reception of a Venetian Embassy in Damascus’
Ms Helen Wyld, Tapestry Curator at the Paul Mellon Centre, the National Trust
14/10/11
- Recent Studies on Textiles from the Silk Road
Zhao Feng, China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou
21/10/11
- The Porcelain Pagoda: an enigma and its questions
Clarence Eng, Research Associate, SOAS
November
02/11/11
- The iconography of Buddhist tablets in Southeast Asia
Delphine Desoutter, PhD student, Université Sorbonne-Nouvelle, Paris III
02/11/11
- The Mahanavami dibba or Great Platform at Vijayanagara
Anna Dallapiccola
16/11/11
- Model Agency: The Practice of Copying Buddha Images in Thai Art History
Angela Chiu, PhD student, Art & Archaeology Department, SOAS
16/11/11
- New Light on Ottoman Goldsmiths’ Work
Professor Michael Rogers, Hon Curator, Khalili Collection, London
18/11/11
- Tracing the Emperor: Photography and the Imperial Famous Places in Japan
Kim Gyewon, SISJAC fellow
25/11/11
- Scientific analysis of paper in the Otani collection
Sakamoto Shoji, Ryokoku University
30/11/11
- Mughal painting and European Art (title to be confirmed)
Prof Ashok Kumar Srivastava (Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur)
This event has been cancelled
December
02/12/11
- Works of Kawanabe Kyosai in the multi-cultural context of the late 19th century
Sadamura Koto, SISJAC fellow
07/12/11
- The Martyr and the Saint: the Ottoman Transformation of two Medieval Shrines
Dr Zeynep Yurekli-Gorkay, Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
08/12/11
- Revisiting Ḥadīth Bayāḍ wa Riyāḍ (ms. Vat. ar. 368) - New perspectives
Dr. Arianna D'Ottone
14/12/11
- An imperial mission for the Khmer medical Buddha
Peter Sharrock (SOAS)
