“Khalili Research Seminar”, avril-juin 2013, Oxford
Khalili Research Seminar
Date and place:
Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John Street, Oxford
Tuesdays 2.00–4.30 pm in Trinity Term 2013
Program
23 April (Week 1)
Harry Munt:
Why write local history in the early Islamic centuries?
30 April (Week 2)
Mahmoud Hawari:
Hishām’s Palace in context: landscape archaeological survey and excavations in the hinterland of Khirbat al-Mafjar
7 May (Week 3)
Umberto Bongianino:
Fātimid architecture in Cyrenaica: David Whitehouse’s excavations at Ajdābiya
14 May (Week 4)
Michael Macdonald:
Ignorance on the internet. A new corpus of Jāhilī writing from Arabia
21 May (Week 5)
James White:
Provincial power-play: a Safavid-era manuscript of ‘The Man in the Panther’s Skin’
28 May (Week 6)
Francesca Leoni:
The good, the bad and the ugly: representations of good and evil in Islamic art
4 June (Week 7)
Elise Morero:
Islamic rock crystal – technological perspectives
11 June (Week 8)
Marie Legendre:
Byzantine capitals, Umayyad dukes and the Egyptian dīwān: local administration and the formation of the Islamic state
Infos:
http://www.ocla.ox.ac.uk/sect_iiw_eve.shtml