Tuesday 25 April 2017

• 14:00 - ʿAlā fuwīr Tuṭīla. Bilingual contracts and written culture during the Christian conquest of al-Andalus
  Mr Rodrigo García-Velasco Bernal (University of Cambridge)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Tuesday 2 May 2017

• 14:00 - The origins of royal funerary architecture in al-Maghrib al-Aqṣā
  Mr Péter Tamás Nagy (Khalili Research Centre)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Tuesday 9 May 2017

• 14:00 - The written culture in Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Spain
  Dr Nuria Martínez de Castilla (Paris, EPHE)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Tuesday 16 May 2017

• 14:00 - Light and Lighting in al-Andalus
  Dr Tom Nickson (London, Courtauld Institute)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Tuesday 23 May 2017

• 14:00 - Writing a New History of Western Islamic Architecture
  Professor Jonathan Bloom (Boston College)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Tuesday 30 May 2017

• 14:00 - Life beyond the medina of Cordoba: districts (rabad) and cemeteries (maqābir)
  Dr María Teresa Casal García (Madrid, CSIC)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 15:30 - Glassmaking in Umayyad and post-Umayyad al-Andalus
  Dr Chloe Duckworth (Newcastle University)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Tuesday 6 June 2017

• 14:00 - New (graphic) documents for the study of Almoravid and Almohad architecture
  Professor Antonio Almagro Gorbea (Granada, CSIC)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Tuesday 13 June 2017

• 14:00 - Berbers and Borderlands: state formation and urbanisation in early medieval Morocco
  Dr Corisande Fenwick (University College London)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 15:30 - ‘How were the traces of their edifices erased?’ Archaeological / ethno-historical survey of Jerba, Tunisia
  Professor Renata Holod (University of Pennsylvania)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 12 October 2017

• 14:00 - Acculturated natives who rebel. Revivalist, Ottomanist and Pan-Arabist engagements with early Islamic art (1876-1930s)
  Dr Nadia Ali (Wolfson College, Empires of Faith Project)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 19 October 2017

• 14:00 - The ʿAbbasid envoy and the giant’s bones: notes on the authorship of Ibn Fadlan’s Kitab
  Dr Luke Treadwell (St Cross College, KRC)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 26 October 2017

• 14:00 - Late medieval pottery from Ephesus
  Dr Georgi Parpulov (Wolfson College, British Museum)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 14:00 - L’architecture palatiale ziride et hammadide et son influence sur l’architecture normande en Sicile
  Professor Lamia Hadda (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) )
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 9 November 2017

• 14:00 - Geometry and architecture in Islamic Jerusalem: a Sufi way
  Dr Archie G. Walls (independent scholar)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 16 November 2017

• 14:00 - ‘Ways of seeing’: Preparing the new Albukhari Foundation Galleries of the Islamic World
  Dr Ladan Akbarnia (British Museum)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 23 November 2017

• 14:00 - An impossibility? Writing a book on Persian Pottery
  Professor Oliver Watson (Wolfson College, KRC)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 14:00 - Iran: collecting and curating
  Ms Fuchsia Hart (Wolfson College, V&A Museum)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 17 October 2019

• 17:15 - The Language of the Qur’an in light of the Arab Grammarians and Early Qur’anic Manuscripts
  Marijn Van Putten (Leiden University)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 24 October 2019

• 17:15 - The Great Mosque of Damascus and the medieval Islamic mosaic industry
  Beatrice Leal (University of Oxford)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 31 October 2019

• 17:15 - The archaeology of the San‘ā’ palimpsest: New reflections from the perspective of codicology
  Eléonore Cellard (Collège de France)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 7 November 2019

• 17:15 - The Management of Architectural Heritage in the Mamluk Sultanate
  Doris Behrens Abouseif (SOAS)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 14 November 2019

• 17:15 - Origins of Hebrew calligraphy: from Abbasid Baghdad to Fatimid Cairo
  Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (University of Oxford)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 21 November 2019

• 17:15 - Manuscrits Coraniques de l’Afrique, une étude comparative
  Constant Hamès (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 28 November 2019

• 17:15 - The ‘Mosque of the Prophet’ and Beyond: A Tentative Reconstruction of the Early Islamic topography of Madina al-Munawwara (622-750) Based on Written Sources
  Aila Santi (American University of Beirut)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 5 December 2019

• 17:15 - Artistic and Architectural patronage of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan
  Gulfishan Khan (Aligarh Muslim University)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Friday 17 May 2024

• 10:00 - From Sicily to Sumatra: Conference in Honour of Professor Jeremy Johns
  Lev Arie Kapitaikin (Tel Aviv University), Ruba Kana'an (University of Toronto), Marcus Milwright (University of Victoria / University of York), Teresa Bernheimer (LMU (Munich)), Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A (London)), Elvira Miceli (University of Oxford), Joseph O'Hara (University of Oxford), Laura Hinrichsen (Scholar), Peter Nagy (Qatar Museums), Julian Raby (Smithsonian Institution), Jessica Rahardjo

Thursday 4 July 2024

• 09:30 - Aesthetic and Symbolic Dimensions of Arabic Writing (ASDAW) Symposium
  Prof Alain George (University of Oxford), Luke Treadwell (University of Oxford), Umberto Bongianino (Islamic Art and Architecture), Ruba Kana'an (University of Toronto), Marcus Milwright (University of Victoria / University of York), Alya Karame, Nourane Ben Azzouna, Vivek Gupta, Zahra Kazani (University of Oxford), Martina Massullo, Sergio Carro Martín, András Barati, Patricia Blessing, Carine Juvin, Eloïse Brac de la Perrière