Archived Medieval Visual Culture Seminars
2025
Thu 4 Dec 2025
Seeing Anew: Digital Methods and the Return to the Medieval Object
Kristine Tanton (University of Montreal)
Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine’s College
Convened by Prof Nancy Thebaut
Thu 20 November 2025
New directions in the study of ivories from the Islamic world: A talk and handling session
(Co-sponsored by the Khalili Research Center)
Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A) & Ashley Coutu (Pitt Rivers)
Khalili Research Center
Convened by Prof Nancy Thebaut
Thu 13 November 2025
Abstract Figures and Bodily Change: Giving Form to Unseen Things in Late Medieval England
Carly Boxer (Bucknell University)
Riverside Lecture Theatre, St Catherine’s College
Convened by Prof Nancy Thebaut
Image: MS 86, St. John's College, University of Oxford
Thu 30 October 2025
Seeing Double: Visualising La Cité des dames and La Cité de Dieu
Hannele Hellerstedt (University of Oxford)
Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine’s College
Convener: Prof Nancy Thebaut
Wed 4 June 2025
Frustration and Failure: Medieval Images of Christ's Transfiguration (12th-13th c.)
Professor Vincent Debiais (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
Raptakos Seminar Room, St Catherine’s College
Convener: Prof Nancy Thebaut
Image: Munich, BSB clm 835, f. 24r
