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
2012
January
04/01/12
11/01/12
- Ritual and Pilgrimage at the Mirkula Devi Temple in the Western Himalayas
Yashaswini Chandra (SOAS/Sahapedia)
13/01/12
- Special event in conjunction with the opening of Traditions Revised - Japanese Fans from the Ishizumi Family Collection
Kanji Ishizumi (collector and fan-maker), Timon Screech (SOAS), Charles Summers (artist)
18/01/12
- The Cosmic Cup in Medieval and Later Persian Art
Dr Marianna Shreve Simpson, Independent Scholar, Maryland, USA and Pres Lecturer in Islamic Art and Architecture, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford
The Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture in Islamic Art and Culture
25/01/12
- Crisis, Court, Company: Painting and Visual culture in Anglo-Mughal Delhi
Yuthika Sharma (Columbia University, New York)
27/01/12
- Kim Hong-do and the Ideal Image of Women in Late Chosŏn Period
Jaeyoon Yi (Research Institute for Human Life Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea)
February
08/02/12
- Grammar Games: Design thinking in Colonial India
Parvez Kabir (Santiniketan, India)
08/02/12
- Engravers and Patrons: the function of art in the Kushan period
Robert Bracey
Please note date and room change.
08/02/12
- Raqqa – Qasr Banat
Prof Oliver Watson, IM Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, University of Oxford
09/02/12
- Buddhist Eschatology and the Design of Dazhusheng Cave, Henan
Wendi Adamek (University of Sydney)
10/02/12
- Manuscripts from the Silk Roads: Records of Paper and Ink Chosŏn Period
Agnieszka Helman-Wazny (University of Hamburg) and Renate Nöller (BAM-Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing)
22/02/12
- A Gentle Pursuit: The Role of Women Collectors in Colonial India in Bringing the Himalayas to the National Museums Scotland.
Inbal Livne (Stirling University)
29/02/12
- Topographical Photography, the Colonial Sublime, and the Authorities of Presence: Robert Gill in Nineteenth-Century India
Nathaniel Stein (Brown University)
March
07/03/12
14/03/12
- The Archaeology of Suakin
Dr Jacke Phillips, Research Fellow, SOAS
21/03/12
23/03/12
- PhD Upgrade Presentation: David Luke Houston (SOAS)
David Luke Houston (SOAS)
Mo Bahc and Minor Injury; Alternative Art Worlds from 1980s New York
April
04/04/12
- Heaven on Earth: the universe of Kerala’s Guruvayur Temple
Pepita Seth
EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
18/04/12
- Seeing in Isfahan: Expanding Gaze for an Early Modern Capital
Professor Renata Holod, College for Women Class of 1963 Term Professor in the Humanities, History of Art Department; Curator, Near East Section, PENN Museum, University of Pennsylvania, USA
The Bahari Foundation Lecture in Iranian Art and Culture
19/04/12
- Ancient Vietnam & Champa
Anne-Valerie Schweyer, Ian Glover, Vu Hong Lien, Julian Brown, Peter Sharrock
This springtime colloquium marks the UK launch of the first book in English on the history of Vietnam and the now lost kingdom of Champa, as told through their extraordinary art and architecture.
27/04/12
- PhD upgrade presentation: Radu Alexandru Leca (SOAS) and Ilse Timperman (SOAS)
Radu Alexandru Leca (SOAS) and Ilse Timperman (SOAS)
The Backward Glance: Beautiful Women and Liminal Spaces in Seventeenth Century Japan
Radu Alexandru Leca (SOAS)
Mortuary Variability and Mobility in the Tarim and surrounds: Early Catacomb Burials (c. 5th c. BC–3rd c. AD)
Ilse Timperman (SOAS)
May
02/05/12
- Jahangir's Journeys: the art of an itinerant court
Sue Stronge
The 14th Annual Toby Falk Memorial Lecture
03/05/12
04/05/12
- PhD upgrade presentation: Malcolm McNeill (SOAS) and Liang Tianshuang (SOAS)
Malcolm McNeill (SOAS) and Liang Tianshuang (SOAS)
Narrative Agency in 13-14th Century Chan Figure Painting: A Study of Hagiography-Iconography Text-Image Relationships
Malcolm McNeill (SOAS)
The Agency of Syncretism in Modern Chinese Art: Gao Qifeng and the New Republic Basin
Liang Tianshuang (SOAS)
10/05/12
- In-Sung Kim Han and Caroline Rumpf
In-Sung Kim Han and Caroline Rumpf
Islamic Material Culture in Medieval Korea (8th century - 1427) (In-Sung Kim Han)
Evolution of contemporary Iranian Art after the Reform Period of Muhammed Khatami, through the analysis of paintings and sculptural works by Farhad Moshiri, Bita Fayyazi and Rokni Haerizadeh (Caroline Rumpf)
11/05/12
- Puppetry and Art in Japan
Iwata Yoriko (Chukyo University), Mizote Eri (Kurashiki City College), Senda Yasuko (Independent Researcher), Iku Masunari (Ph.D. student, Open University)
- Iwata Yoriko (Chukyo University): “Punch”-related Ephemera: “ Ponch-e” and Others
- Mizote Eri (Kurashiki City College): The Influences of D’Arc Marionettes on Japanese Theatre
- Senda Yasuko (Independent Researcher): Karauri ningyô --Japanese Automata
- Iku Masunari (Ph.D. student, Open University): Learning about “Sustainability” through Puppetry
16/05/12
16/05/12
- A lecture to celebrate the life and work of Ernst J. Grube: 1932–2011: The Edmund de Unger Ewer: an Early Fatimid Rock Crystal Ewer in Context
Professor Jeremy Johns, Professor of the Art and Archaeology of the Islamic Mediterranean Director, Khalili Research Centre for the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East, University of Oxford
18/05/12
- Why do Chinese Paintings have Inscriptions?
Alfreda Murck, Independent Scholar
25/05/12
- A Mysterious Creature in Early Indian and Chinese Art
Diana Y. Chou, The Cleveland Institute of Art
June
06/06/12
- Indian Ocean Exchange during the Indo-Roman period
Roberta Tomber
08/06/12
- An Agent of Cultural Transmission: Jianzhen's Travels to Japan, 743-63
Dorothy Wong, IATH Fellow; University of Virginia
An Agent of Cultural Transmission: Jianzhen's Travels to Japan, 743-63
Dorothy Wong, IATH Fellow; University of Virginia
13/06/12
- The Last Fatimid Fortifications, the Towers of the Vizier Saladin
Dr Stéphane Pradines, IFAO Cairo
25/06/12
- Study Day: Modern Chinese Paintings and Europe
In conjunction with the British Museum's special exhibition MODERN CHINESE INK PAINTINGS
October
03/10/12
05/10/12
- An Art Historian's Detective Story: Zu Dashou (ca. 1565-1656) and His Tomb
Klaas Ruitenbeek, Director of the Asian Art Museum, National Museums in Berlin
10/10/12
- The Enigma of Ibrahim Pashaʼs Palace
Professor Nurhan Atasoy (Turkish Cultural Foundation Scholar in Residence, Istanbul)
12/10/12
- In Search of Lost Causes: Fragments, Ruins, and Allegories
Professor Hamid Dabashi
A keynote Lecture delivered by: Professor Hamid Dabashi (Columbia University), Followed by reception Celebrating the Launch of the School of Arts, SOAS
13/10/12
- Crossing Borders - Launch Conference
The School of Arts Launch Conference
24/10/12
26/10/12
- China before China: Archaeological Investigation on the Origin of Chinese Civilization
Zhang Hai (Associate Professor, School of Archaeology and Museology, Peking University)
November
14/11/12
- The Phoenix Mosque and the Persians of Mediaeval Hangzhou: a Lecture in Memory of Sandy Morton
Dr George Lane (Senior Teaching Fellow, Department of History, SOAS)
15/11/12
- Perception and Reality: The Mughal City of Lahore through European Eyes
Mehreen Chida-Razvi
15/11/12
- Not in the Age of the Pharaohs
Professor Bruce Ferguson (American University in Cairo, Egypt)
Chair: Dr. Atef Alshaer (Centre for Media and Film Studies)
23/11/12
- Northern Elements in Qin Culture: Materials, Manufacture, and Types
Jenny F. So, Chinese University of Hong Kong
28/11/12
- Terraced Brick Temples of the Gupta Period
Laxshmi Greaves (Cardiff University)
December
05/12/12
- Space and Place in a Burmese Cosmology Manuscript in the BritishMuseum
Alexandra Green (British Museum)
05/12/12
- The Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture in Islamic Art and Culture
Professor Jeremy Johns (Professor of the Art and Archaeology of the Islamic Mediterranean Director, Khalili Research Centre for the Art and Material Culture of the Middle East, University of Oxford)
The Painted Ceilings of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo
10/12/12
- Obscure Objects of Desire
Michael Meister
12/12/12
- This curio called 'Indian Miniature' c. 2000
Varunika Saraf (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
14/12/12
- Movements along the Eastern Rim of the Tibetan Plateau – The Prehistoric Liangshan Region as a Multi- Cultural ‘Intersection’
Anke Hein Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles
