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2019
February
23/02/19
- Art as a letter: Hassan Musa’s practice outside his studio
Speaker: Siegrun Salmanian
March
06/03/19
- Berlin, Heterophony of a Muslim City
Peter McMurray (Cambridge)
06/03/19
- Hugh Nevill: Colonial Collecting in Sri Lanka
Dr Sushma Jansari (Curator, Asian Ethnographic and South Asia Collections, British Museum)
07/03/19
09/03/19
14/03/19
- A new look at the so-called ‘Samarra pottery horizon’ in the light of the Samarra Digitization project
Dr Rosalind A. Wade Haddon
April
03/04/19
- Patterns in the V&A’s South Asian textile collection
Avalon Fotheringham (Curator, South Asia, Asia Department, Victoria and Albert Museum)
25/04/19
- Rethinking about Injuid painting school: Inju style in context
Dr Roxana Zenhari
May
09/05/19
15/05/19
- The Tyranny of Style: Nastaʿlīq Calligraphy in Timurid India
Dr Saqib Baburi (Curator, Persian Manuscript Digitisation Project, British Library)
16/05/19
- The Yarshater Lectures in Persian Art - Isfahan: the City as a Setting for Safavid Painting
Dr Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and The Ebrahimi Family Curator of Persian, Arab and Turkish Art, Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Instituton, Washington, D.C.
17/05/19
- The Yarshater Lectures in Persian Art - “United in War and Peace”: A Closer Look at Safavid Albums
Dr Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and The Ebrahimi Family Curator of Persian, Arab and Turkish Art, Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Instituton, Washington, D.C.
20/05/19
- The Yarshater Lectures in Persian Art - Painting and Production: A New Model for Safavid Isfahan
Dr Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and The Ebrahimi Family Curator of Persian, Arab and Turkish Art, Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Instituton, Washington, D.C.
21/05/19
- The Yarshater Lectures in Persian Art - Safavid Albums: Shifting the Visual Language
Dr Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and The Ebrahimi Family Curator of Persian, Arab and Turkish Art, Freer Gallery of Art and the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Instituton, Washington, D.C.
June
05/06/19
- Some Illustrated Manuscripts from the Collection of Tipu Sultan
Ursula Sims-Williams (Lead Curator, Persian Collections, British Library)