Tuesdays, 2 PM, KRC Lecture Room 3 St John St, Oxford OX1 2LG
THE ARCHAEOLOGY AND MATERIAL CULTURE OF THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WEST
25 April:ʿAlā fuwīr Tuṭīla. Bilingual contracts and written culture during the Christian conquest of al-Andalus
Mr Rodrigo García-Velasco Bernal • University of Cambridge
• 2 May:The origins of royal funerary architecture in al-Maghrib al-Aqṣā
Mr Péter Tamás Nagy • Khalili Research Centre
• 9 May:The written culture in Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Spain
Dr Nuria Martínez de Castilla • Paris, EPHE
• 16 May:Light and Lighting in al-Andalus
Dr Tom Nickson • London, Courtauld Institute
• 23 May:Writing a New History of Western Islamic Architecture
Professor Jonathan Bloom • Boston College
• 30 May:Life beyond the medina of Cordoba: districts (rabad) and cemeteries (maqābir)
Dr María Teresa Casal García • Madrid, CSIC
3:30 PM:Glassmaking in Umayyad and post-Umayyad al-Andalus
Dr Chloe Duckworth • Newcastle University
• 6 June:New (graphic) documents for the study of Almoravid
and Almohad architecture
Professor Antonio Almagro Gorbea • Granada, CSIC
• 13 June:Berbers and Borderlands: state formation and urbanisation in early medieval Morocco
Dr Corisande Fenwick • University College London
3:30 PM:‘How were the traces of their edifices erased?’ Archaeological / ethno-historical survey of Jerba, Tunisia
Professor Renata Holod • University of Pennsylvania
