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 (11th–15th centuries)
Teaching staff: Umberto Bongianino and Günseli Gürel
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.
Tuesdays 2–4 PM, Weeks 1–8 (KRC Lecture Room)
Week 1: Timurid Art & 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: New visual idioms in the 18th century
Manuscript Viewing Sessions
Teaching staff: Alasdair Watson, Marinita Stiglitz, Francesca Leoni, Teresa Fitzherbert, Naide Gedikli-Gorali, Günseli Gürel, Niko Kontovas, Jaimee Comstock- Skipp
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 PM, Weeks 2, 5, and 6
Week 2: Iran and Central Asia after 1400 CE, Weston Library, Horton Seminar Room (TF & JC-S)
Week 5: Works on paper and other media, Ashmolean Museum, Eastern Art Study Room, Jameel Study Centre (FL)
Week 6: Ottoman Turkey, Weston Library, Weston Library, Bahari Study Room (GG & NGG)
KRC Research Seminars
Convenors: Umberto Bongianino and Günseli Gürel
All Oxford students, staff, and the general public are welcome to attend. You are advised to arrive early in order to secure a seat, as spaces are limited.
Thursdays 17.15–18.45 PM, Weeks 1–8 (KRC Lecture Room)
Week 1 (30th April): Embodied Shadows: Puppets, Performance, and Social Critique in Late Ottoman Damascus - Hala Qasqas (Barakat Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, KRC)
Week 2 (7th May): Reading Between the Lines: The Maritime Landscape of Anaia on the Byzantine- Genoese and Aydinid Cusp - Suna Çağaptay (Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University)
Week 3 (14th May): Beside the Sultan: Harem Patronage and Dynastic Networks in the Reign of Selim III (1789–1807) - Deniz Turker (University of Cambridge)
Week 4 (21st May): Islamic Archaeology in Egypt: Sixteen Years of Rescue Excavations in Cairo - Stephane Pradines (The Aga Khan University)
Week 5 (28th May): Woven Together: Carpets and Architecture in Safavid Iran - Margaret Squires (Ashmolean Museum)
Week 6 (4th June): Portrait as Biography at the Ottoman Court: the Case of Murad III (r. 1574–95) - Emine Fetvaci (Boston College)
Week 7 (11th June): 16:00 Archives and Archaeology: Unearthing the Ottoman Perspective - Nilay Özlü & Ceren Abi (Istanbul Technical University) 17:15 Occupation on Display: Curating the Aftermath of World War I in Istanbul - Daniel-Joseph MacArthur-Seal (Scuola Superiore Meridionale, Naples) and Gizem Tongo (KRC & Lusail Museum, Doha)
Week 8 (18th June): Historicizing and Visualizing the Evolution of Ottoman Architecture in Istanbul from the Mid-fifteenth to the Early Twentieth Century - Muzaffer Özgüleş (Barakat Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, KRC)
Special Lecture
All Oxford students, staff, and the general public are welcome to attend. You are advised to arrive early in order to secure a seat, as spaces are limited.
17:00 - Lecture Room 2, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Pusey Lane
Week 6 (2nd June): Beyond Codex Sinaiticus: Documentary Evidence about Mount Sinai - Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis (Chair of Byzantine Studies, Freie Universität Berlin)
