2024 events

The Annual PhD Conference 2024: Contested Identities

Friday 26 April 2024

This year's annual conference for History of Art PhD students is on the theme of 'Contested Identities'.

Fit for the Gods: Chinese Porcelain and Collecting Practices at the Court of Ferrara

Wednesday 24 April 2024

This talk will consider instead how Bellini may have been referencing the large porcelain collection held by the Este, housed in spaces such as the previously unknown Stanza delle Porcellane.

The Drama of Stained Glass: An Examination of the Fifteenth-Century Passion Window at St Kew

Tuesday 16 April 2024

This is a Stained Glass Research School lecture

British Pre-Raphaelites in Italy: Making an Exhibition in 2024

Wednesday 10 April 2024

This research seminar will explore the challenges -- both intellectual and practical -- of making a large exhibition of British art for an Italian museum organisation in the period post-Brexit and post-Covid.

The Great War and its Aftermath in Iraq: Contemporary Visual and Textual Perspectives

Wednesday 20 March 2024

This talk considers a range of primary sources created during the Mesopotamian Campaign (1914–18) and through to the early years of the Kingdom of Iraq under British Administration (1921–32).

Production, Transmission & Interpretation - day 3

Friday 15 March 2024

An interdisciplinary conference on Islamic Art, Architecture and Archaeology (Day 3: Friday 15 March, 2024)

The Islamic fascination with domes

Thursday 14 March 2024

This lecture will seek to account for the popularity of domes in Islamic architecture. It will suggest some reasons why domes were so widespread from the early Islamic period up to modern times. That will involve a discussion of what functions they served – and here the architecture of death deserves special attention - and an investigation of both the impact of domes in other recent or contemporary cultures and also the role of domes of more distant ancestry.

Production, Transmission & Interpretation - day 2

Thursday 14 March 2024

An interdisciplinary conference on Islamic Art, Architecture and Archaeology (Day 2: Thursday 14 March, 2024)

Production, Transmission & Interpretation - day 1

Wednesday 13 March 2024

An interdisciplinary conference on Islamic Art, Architecture and Archaeology (Day 1: Wednesday 13 March, 2024)

The “Canton Shawl” in Imperial Spain: From Global Commodity to National Symbol

Wednesday 28 February 2024

This paper focuses on the history of the “Canton shawl” in Spain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Dr Lauren Rosati visit

Wednesday 14 February 2024

On Wednesday 14 February, we are delighted to host a visit from Dr Lauren Rosati (Associate Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art and Research Projects Manager, Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum).

Two lectures: Medieval Islamic Architecture in Afghanistan

Friday 2 February 2024

Join us for two lectures by leading scholars into aspects of the architecture and archaeology of medieval Afghanistan.

The Poiesis of Drapery in Italian Art 1400-1520

Wednesday 31 January 2024

This research seminar foregrounds drapery as a key site through which Italian Renaissance artists conceptualised and materialised the creative process in relation to natural poiesis, or emergence, a coming into being.

Technical Study and Classification of Iranian Stucco Decoration

Monday 15 January 2024

Sahar Basiri will be giving the first Islamic Art Research in Progress Seminar on Monday January 15th at 13:00 in K/111 in King's Manor.