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Events

1 slade lecture absence

Slade Lectures 2027

20 January 2027
Sculptural Absence: Jaina Iconography and the Concept of Body Abandonment
2 slade lecture multiplicity

Slade Lectures 2027

27 January 2027
Architectural Multiplicity: The Modular Construction System of Jaina Temples
3 slade lecture complexity

Slade Lectures 2027

03 February 2027
Cosmic Complexity: The Jaina Religious Universe in Art and Architecture
4 slade lecture replication

Slade Lectures 2027

10 February 2027
Pilgrimage Replication: Multi-media Representations of the Sacred in the Human World
5 slade lecture sustainability

Slade Lectures 2027

17 February 2027
Cultural Sustainability: The Artistic, Ecological and Political Endurance of the Jaina Tradition
6 slade lecture continuity

Slade Lectures 2027

24 February 2027
Global Continuity: Jainism as an Indian and International Living Culture

Past Events

going postal photography and exchange

Going Postal: Photography and Exchange

17 July
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Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

16 June
Turning Away: The Poetics of an Ancient Gesture
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Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

11 June
Negotiating Boundaries in England's Medieval Parish Churches
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Art and Populism: Symposium

11 June
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Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

04 June
Contemporary Art Meets the Medieval Monastery
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Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

28 May
The Many Lives of the Asante Ewers
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Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

07 May
Under the Gaze of the Judge: New approaches to a re-reading of the Conques tympanum
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Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

12 March
Silver trees and pearl crosses: Franco-Mongolian diplomacy and cultural exchange in thirteenth-century Karakorum

Lecture List

Michaelmas Term 2026 will be published shortly. Note: classes marked as closed can only be attended by our enrolled matriculated History of Art students.