SOAS, University of London (The School of Oriental and African Studies)

Mallica Kumbera Landrus (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)

Professor Yves Porter (Department of History, University of Aix-Marseille, France)

The making of Persian Paintings (14th-16th centuries)

Professor Yves Porter (Department of History, University of Aix-Marseille, France)

Poetical iconography on Persian ceramics (end 12th-early 14th centuries)

Professor Yves Porter (Department of History, University of Aix-Marseille, France)

Use and re-use of Persian Tiles

Professor Yves Porter (Department of History, University of Aix-Marseille, France)

Glazed Tiles in the Indian Sultanates

Devika Singh

Dr. Ergün Lafli, Dokuz Eylul Universitesi

Various Speakers

The WEFT exhibition is launched with a symposium titled Endangered Textile Traditions to be held at SOAS on the 18th and 19th of January.

WEFT explores the three dimensionality of textile art through installations and sculptural constructions, where contemporary textile artists are currently taking fibre sculpture into new areas.

Andrew Jarvis (Cambridge University)

Dr Stefania Gervini (Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy)

Nick Barnard

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.

Tabayashi Kei, Research Center for Buddhist Cultures in Asia at Ryukoku University

Holly Shaffer (Yale University)

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

Sau Fong Chan (Victoria & Albert Museum, London)

Professor Ebba Koch Professor of Asian Art, Institute of Art History, University of Vienna, Austria

Various

(buffet lunch 12.30)

Malini Roy

Tanja Tolar

Convened by Professor Anna Contadini, in collaboration with the Courtauld Gallery.

Luk Yu Ping, Asia Department, The British Museum

Robin Coningham (Durham University)

Tara Desjardins

Osmund Bopearachchi

Dr Barbara Brend (Independent Scholar)

Early ‘Siyah Qalam’ style and the Great Mongol Shahnamah

Yamanaka Hideo, Teri University

Massoumeh Assemi

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)

Haifa al-Hababi

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

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.

Steven Cohen

The 15th Annual Toby Falk Memorial Lecture

Robin Rehm, Basel University

Professor Roderick Whitfield, Percival David Professor of Chinese and East Asian Art, Emeritus, SOAS

Sara Peterson

Shailendra Bhandare

Representatives from departments across the School will be available to answer your questions about postgraduate studies at SOAS.

Dr Francesca Leoni (Yousef Jameel Curator of Islamic Art, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)