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2020
January
February
05/02/20
- Collecting Madurai, or How a 16th-century temple hall came to the Philadelphia Museum of Art
Dr Crispin Branfoot, Reader in the History of South Asian Art & Archaeology, SOAS
19/02/20
- The Maydan-e Naqsh-e Jahan in Isfahan and André Godard’s Restorations
Sarah Piram, Iran Heritage Foundation Curator, the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
25/02/20
- Risk as Value and Affect: Making Uncertainty Profitable in the
Darci Sprengel (Oxford University)
March
10/03/20
- Listening to love: Auditory attention, vocal iconicity and intimate
Christina Woolner (Cambridge University)
11/03/20
- The Ninth Bahari Foundation Lecture in Iranian Art and Culture - A History of Miniature Painting Between the 1540s and 1560s in Central Asia
Dr Karin Rührdanz, Curator Emerita, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
18/03/20
- Talk by Tim Stanley, Senior Curator, Middle East Department, V&A Museum (Title TBD)
Tim Stanley, Senior Curator, Middle East Department, V&A Museum
April
15/04/20
- Little-explored treasures? The Indian textile collections at the British Museum
Richard Blurton, Research Curator, Department of Asia, British Museum
22/04/20
- The Qur’ans of Uljaytu
Dr Alison Ohta, Director, Royal Asiatic Society, London
May
06/05/20
- The 22nd Annual Toby Falk Memorial Lecture - Haludar: a meticulous observer and illustrator of natural history in Bengal, c. 1799-1818
Dr Malini Roy, Head of Visual Arts, British Library
13/05/20
- ART AND OIL: Calouste Gulbenkian and his Collection of Islamic Art
Dr Jessica Hallett, Curator, Early Modern Middle East, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal
June
03/06/20
- Exhibiting Tantric material culture at the British Museum
Imma Ramos, Curator, South Asia, British Museum
10/06/20
- Architects & Astrolabes: Islamic Art & Science in Medici Florence
Dr Glaire Anderson, Senior Lecturer in Islamic Art, University of Edinburgh