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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    
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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
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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  

 

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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        
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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
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