Lectures at The Khalili Research Centre
LECTURES, SEMINARS & CLASSES
Teaching this term will be delivered in person in the KRC Lecture Room. If you have any questions regarding online access, please contact daniel.burt@ames.ox.ac.uk
Please refer to the Canvas website for teaching materials relative to the MPhil and MSt in Islamic Art and Architecture: https://canvas.ox.ac.uk.
History of Islamic Art and Architecture I (7th–10th centuries)
Teaching staff: Umberto Bongianino, Juan de Lara
Restricted to students on the MPhil and MSt in Islamic Art and Architecture, as well as AMES students accepted for an option, further subject, or special subject in Islamic Art and Architecture.
Wednesdays 2–4 PM, Weeks 1–3 (KRC Lecture Room)
Tuesdays 2–4 PM, Weeks 4–8 (KRC Lecture Room)
Week 1: The formation of Islamic art and architecture
Week 2: The archaeology of early Islam
Week 3: Umayyad elite establishments
Week 4: Numismatics, epigraphy, administration
Week 5: Abbasid Samarra and Tulunid Egypt
Week 6: Early Quranic calligraphy and illumination
Week 7: Early Islamic Ifrīqiya and the Aghlabids
Week 8: The Umayyad Caliphate of Córdoba
Portfolio of Practical Work
Teaching staff: Umberto Bongianino, Günseli Gürel, Silke Ackermann
Restricted to students on the MPhil and MSt in Islamic Art and Architecture
Thursdays 2–4 PM in Weeks 2, 3, 5, 6, 8
Week 2: Coins (UB), Ashmolean Museum
Week 3: Astrolabes I (SA), KRC Lecture Room
Week 5: Astrolabes II (SA), History of Science Museum
Week 6: Manuscripts (GG), Weston Library
Week 8: Manuscripts (UB), Weston Library
KRC Research Seminar
Convenors: Umberto Bongianino, Günseli Gürel
Thursdays 5.15–6.45 PM, Weeks 1–8 (KRC Lecture Room)
Week 1 (15th October): A Glance into a Timurid Royal Library in Herat, Shiva Mihan (British Museum)
Week 2 (22nd October): The Erzini House of Tetuan: Conservation, Research, and Interpretation, Nadia Erzini (independent scholar)
Week 3 (29th October): Islamic Archaeology from the Fringes: Recent Discoveries at the Site of Banbhore (Sindh, Pakistan), Agnese Fusaro (Università per Stranieri di SIena)
Week 4 (5th November): Shaping the Heritage of Greater Syria: The Role of the Institut français d’archéologie et d’art musulmans and the Restoration of Beit ed-Din Palace around 1928, Veronika Poier (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
Week 5 (12th November): The Art of Drinking Chocolate: Coconut Cups and Other Marvels from the New World, Juan de Lara (KRC)
Week 6 (19th November): NO SEMINAR
Week 7 (26th November): Data Dump Istanbul: Early Republican Photojournalism and Archival Refuse, Ahmet Ersoy (Boğaziçi University, Istanbul)
Week 8 (3rd December): What’s an Andalusi Textile Doing in a Place Like This? , Ana Cabrera Lafuente (Museo del Traje, Madrid)