KRC Research Seminars Talk: What is the sensory history of Islamic art?

Thursday 28 November 2024, 5.15–6.45 PM, Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, Oxford University, Oxford.

Detail from the folio of a dispersed seventeenth-century Ottoman album showing two paintings, one of a young man holding out a flower and another of a young woman (T 439.1, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, CC license).

Dr. Suzanne Compagnon will give a talk in the Khalili Research Centre’s research seminars on November 28^th 2024. The talk titled “What is the sensory history of Islamic art?” discusses the relevance of sensory history to the field of Islamic art. It takes stock of the state of research on the sensory history of the Islamic world and outlines some of its far-reaching implications for the study of material and visual culture.