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 II (15th–17th centuries)
Teaching staff: Günseli Gürel and Umberto Bongianino, with special lectures by Jaimee Comstock-Skipp and Juan de Lara
Restricted to first-year students on the MPhil 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, 14.00–16.00, Weeks 1–8 (KRC Lecture Room)
Week 1: Timurid art and architecture
Week 2: Royal workshops
Week 3: Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal palaces
Week 4: Ottoman mosques: the ‘classical synthesis’
Week 5: Ottoman illustrated histories and dynastic portraiture
Week 6: Sufi shrines in the age of empires
Week 7: The forgotten empire: visual culture in Saadian Morocco
Week 8: Innovations in Qajar and Ottoman visual cultures
Manuscript Viewing Sessions
Teaching staff: Teresa Fitzherbert, Naide Gedikli-Gorali, Günseli Gürel, Jessica Rahardjo, Jaimee Comstock-Skipp, Alasdair Watson.
Restricted to KRC and AMES students with an interest in Islamic manuscripts. Registration is essential (e-mail teresa.fitzherbert@ames.ox.ac.uk).
Fridays, 11.00–12.45, Weeks 2, 4, 6 (Weston Library, Horton Seminar Room)
Week 2: Timurid and Turkman (TF, GG, JC-S)
Week 4: Safavid, Abu’l-Khayrid-Shaybanid and Ottoman (TF, NGG, GG, JC-S)
Week 6: Island Southeast Asia (JR)
KRC Research Seminars
Convenors: Umberto Bongianino and Günseli Gürel
All Oxford students, staff, and the general public are welcome to attend. Thursdays, 17.15–18.45 (KRC Lecture Room)
Week 2 (8th May) Lajvardina: A Re-evaluation of Distinctive Ilkhanid and Golden Horde Overglaze Painted Wares - Richard Piran McClary (University of York)
Week 3 (15th May) Sultan-builders and architectural innovations in Java during the early colonial period (16th – early 19th century) - Hélène Njoto (École française d’Extrême-Orient, Jakarta)
Week 4 (22nd May) Zoomorphic incense burners of medieval Khurasan - Elizabeth Kelly (Independent researcher, London)
Week 6 (5th June) The mosque as instrument: new approaches in the history of Islamicate astronomy - Yusuf Tayara (Faculty of History / Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies)
Week 7 (12th June) Beyond education: architecture and socio-political evolution of the Marvi Madrasa in Qajar Tehran - Maryam Heydarkhani (Barakat Postdoctoral Fellow, KRC)
Week 8 (19th June) Tracing authenticity among colours: rewriting a monument’s identity through the restoration of the Sultan Ahmet Mosque - Ahsen Karagöl and Ömer Faruk Kara (İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi)
The following talks are organized in conjunction with the seminar series “After Rome and Further East”, on Thursdays, 17.00 at New College (Lecture Room 4)
Week 1 (1st May) The double-sided object: reflections on the sculptures of the Great Stupa at Amarāvatī - Jás Elsner (University of Oxford, Corpus Christi College)
Week 5 (29th May) Inscriptions between epigraphy, archaeology, and history: the reuse of the ‘pagan’ past in Late Antiquity (fourth to seventh centuries CE) - Anna Sitz (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
Special Lecture
Week 5 (Tuesday 27 May), 17.00 (KRC Lecture Room)
The Exposition Universelle of 1900 and Ottoman artists - Gizem Tongo (Hacettepe University, Ankara) and Vazken Khatchig Davidian (Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies)
