ANN 07.10.2017

Seminars: Empires of Faith (Oxford, 11 Oct-29 Nov 17)

Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 11.10.–29.11.2017

Maria Lidova

Conceived as an accompaniment to the Ashmolean exhibition Imagining the Divine (http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/imaginingthedivine/), the Empires of Faith research project (https://empiresoffaith.com ) is pleased to announce a series of weekly seminars on art and religions in Late Antiquity.

11 October (Week 1)
Phil Booth (Oxford University)
Crucible of the Copts: Empire and faith in seventh-century Egypt

18 October (Week 2)
Richard Hobbs (The British Museum)
Representing belief on silver plate in late Antiquity

25 October (Week 3)
Susan Walker (Oxford University)
Man with a mission: Charles Wilshere, a Victorian collector of early Christian and Jewish antiquities
1st of November (Week 4)
Nadia Ali (The British Museum / Empires of Faith project)
Qusayr 'Amra and the continuity of post-classical art in early Islam: Towards an iconology of forms

8th of November (Week 5)
Alain George (Oxford University)
The temple, church and first mosque at Damascus: New perspectives

15th of November (Week 6)
Michele Minardi (Bordeaux-Montaigne University)
Chorasmian gods. Images of Zoroastrian deities throughout antiquity

22nd of November (Week 7)
Maria Cristina Carile (Bologna University)
Re-approaching the late antique and medieval art of Ravenna: visuality and artistic culture of a Mediterranean city

29th November (Week 8)
Mattia Guidetti (Vienna University)
Churches and mosques in early medieval Syria

Quellennachweis:
ANN: Seminars: Empires of Faith (Oxford, 11 Oct-29 Nov 17). In: ArtHist.net, 07.10.2017. Letzter Zugriff 29.03.2024. <https://arthist.net/archive/16381>.

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