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The Ming Imperial Family in Text and Picture

HoA Research Seminar Series 2026

14 October
The Ming Imperial Family in Text and Picture
Julien Creuzet, Attila cataracte, ta source aux pieds, des pitons verts, finira dans la grande mer, gouffre bleu, nous nous noyâmes, dans les larmes marées, de la lune, Portal, Flame, 2024. Wood, roucou, acrylic paint

HoA Research Seminar Series 2026

21 October
Common-Places: Édouard Glissant and Contemporary Art
Irene Chou painting

HoA Research Seminar Series 2026

28 October
The Painter’s Brain: Towards a Cognitive Art History
HoA Research Seminar W4

HoA Research Seminar Series 2026

04 November
The Many Names of Anonymity: Revisiting the Ting Qua Studio Portrait
HoA Research Seminar W5

HoA Research Seminar Series 2026

11 November
Hydropolitics, Form and the Mediterranean between Italy and Egypt
HoA Research Seminar W6

HoA Research Seminar Series 2026

18 November
Idols in The Round: The Late Medieval Fear of The Freestanding Portrait Statue
1 slade lecture absence

Slade Lectures 2027

20 January 2027
Sculptural Absence: Jaina Iconography and the Concept of Body Abandonment
2 slade lecture multiplicity

Slade Lectures 2027

27 January 2027
Architectural Multiplicity: The Modular Construction System of Jaina Temples
3 slade lecture complexity

Slade Lectures 2027

03 February 2027
Cosmic Complexity: The Jaina Religious Universe in Art and Architecture
4 slade lecture replication

Slade Lectures 2027

10 February 2027
Pilgrimage Replication: Multi-media Representations of the Sacred in the Human World
5 slade lecture sustainability

Slade Lectures 2027

17 February 2027
Cultural Sustainability: The Artistic, Ecological and Political Endurance of the Jaina Tradition
6 slade lecture continuity

Slade Lectures 2027

24 February 2027
Global Continuity: Jainism as an Indian and International Living Culture

Past Events

going postal photography and exchange

Going Postal: Photography and Exchange

17 July
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Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

16 June
Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture
mvcs tt w7

Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

11 June
Negotiating Boundaries in England's Medieval Parish Churches
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Art and Populism: Symposium

11 June
andrea buttner dancing nuns

Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

04 June
Contemporary Art Meets the Medieval Monastery
the many lives of the asante ewers

Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

28 May
The Many Lives of the Asante Ewers
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Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

07 May
Under the Gaze of the Judge: New approaches to a re-reading of the Conques tympanum
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Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

12 March
Silver trees and pearl crosses: Franco-Mongolian diplomacy and cultural exchange in thirteenth-century Karakorum

Lecture List

Michaelmas Term 2026 lecture list now published. Note: classes marked as closed can only be attended by our enrolled matriculated History of Art students.