Byzan um and Islam: ideas and objects on the move

Byzan'um and Islam: ideas and objects on the move Convenors: Dr Elena Draghici-‐Vasilescu and Dr Mallica Kumbera Landrus Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos, King’s College London 15 Oct: ‘The status of physicians in the ByzanDne Empire and the Islamic World in the late Middle Ages’ Dr Evanthia Baboula, University of Victoria 22 Oct: ‘Gold use and the gold supply in ByzanDum and the Islamic world’ Professor Jeremy Johns, Khalili Research Centre, Oxford 29 Oct: ‘Painted muqarnas ceilings between ByzanDum and Islam’ Professor Ian Freestone, University College London 05 Nov: ‘ByzanDne and Islamic Glass Technology’ Dr Nikolaos Karydis, University of Kent 12 Nov: ‘Architectural encounters between ByzanDum and Islam from the 10th to the 13th Century’ Dr Mark WhiBow, History Faculty, Oxford 19 Nov: ‘ByzanDne objects on the move’ Dr Francesca Leoni, Ashmolean Museum 26 Nov: ‘Impact of ByzanDne manuscript illustraDon on early Arab manuscript painDng, 12th-‐14thcentury’ Dr Alexander Lingas, City University of London and European HumaniDes Research Centre Oxford 03 Dec: ‘ByzanDum, Islam and the Development of a Common Musical Inheritance’ The above seminars will be given on Tuesdays at 2.30 pm in the Jameel Centre, Ashmolean Museum. Supported by the History Faculty and the Ashmolean Museum University Engagement Programme (funded by the Andrew W Mellon FoundaQon) and the Eastern Art Department. Arrive early; maximum of 15 people can be accommodated in the room. Further queries: [email protected]

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