The Virtual Islamic Art History Seminar Series (VIAHSS) is pleased to announce our Spring 2025 program. Please note that all talks now take place on Tuesdays instead of Fridays at 12 noon EST/5PM UK/7PM Turkey (unless otherwise noted). Registration links for individual events will be sent out approximately one week before the program. To receive these links, please sign up for our mailing list at viahss.org.

Spring 2025 Presentations

Tuesday, February 4, 2025
Jessica Holland (British School at Athens)
David Maina (British Institute of East Africa)
Anne Marie Williamson (British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies)
Using Linked Open Data to Make Visible Links between Islamic Heritage Collections across the British International Research Institutes Network

Tuesday, March 4, 2025
Giorgia M. Maffioli Brigatti (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge)
Poetics and Politics of Fragrance: An Olfactory Approach to Safavid Paintings

Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Atri Hatef Naiemi (University of British Columbia)
Ilkhanid Capital Cities: Transcultural Interactions

Tuesday, March 25, 2025 [postponed from Tuesday, November 19, 2024]
Amber Elisabeth Peters (Ca’Foscari University)
The Ocean in Early-Modern South Asian Art

Tuesday, April 15, 2025
Carol Bier (Center for Islamic Studies, Graduate Theological Union)
Geometry in Islamic Art: Number, Shape, and the Nature of Space

Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Shunhua Jin (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin)
Mihrab Spaces in Late Imperial Mosques of North China: Material Localization and Function

You can review our full schedule of upcoming talks and register for our list-serv on our website at viahss.org. Although not every talk is recorded, we also have recordings of several recent talks available on the VIAHSS Vimeo page at vimeo.com/viahss. Lastly, you can follow us on X at @viahss and on Instagram at @theviahss to stay up to date on upcoming events and register to join us!