Islamic Art Circle Lectures

The Palace of Pedro I in Seville, 'very much like the residence of the Muslim kings'?

Dr Tom Nickson, Lecturer in Medieval Art and Architecture, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

Reviving Islamic Architecture in Khedivial Cairo, and Beyond: a Collector’s Passion

Dr Mercedes Volait, CRNS Research Professor at INHA, Paris

Takht-e Soleyman/Iran - From Sasanian Fire Temple to Ilkhanid Summer Palace. New Evidence from Old Excavations

Dr Ute Franke, Deputy Director, Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin

The Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture in Islamic Art and Culture

Dr Simon Rettig, Assistant Curator of Islamic Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

The Calligrapher, the Painter, and the Patron: A New Perspective on the Freer Khusraw u Shirin

In the service of religion? The display of ‘science from the Islamic world’ in the museum

Dr Silke Ackermann, Director, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford

The Seventh Bahari Foundation Lecture in Iranian Art and Culture

Dr Peter J. Lu, Department of Physics and SEAS, Harvard University, USA

Decagonal and Quasicrystalline Geometry in the Architecture of Medieval Persia and Its Influence in the Greater Islamic World

Islamic Textiles from Iberia: Re-evaluating Their Role in the Mediterranean Context

Dr Ana Cabrera-Lafuente, Marie S.-Curie Fellow, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Illustrations to ʿAṭṭār’s The Conference of the Birds: The Fifteenth-Century Development of a Pictorial Programme

Dr Ilse Sturkenboom, Lecturer in Iranian Islamic Art History, University of St Andrews, St Andrews

Late Ottoman New Media: Journal Reading and Visuality During the Hamidian Era (1876-1909)

Dr Ahmet Ersoy, Associate Professor, Department of History, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul and 2017-2018 Senior Fellow, Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations, Koç University, Istanbul