All lectures take place in person at University of Oxford’s St Catherine’s College on Thursdays from 5-6:30 pm (unless otherwise noted).
30 October 2025
Hannele Hellerstadt (University of Oxford), “Seeing Double: Visualising La Cité des dames and La Cité de Dieu”
- Reception to follow. Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine’s College.
13 November 2025
Carly Boxer (Bucknell University), “Abstract Figures and Bodily Change: Giving Form to Unseen Things in Late Medieval England”
- Riverside Lecture Theatre, St Catherine’s College.
20 November 2025
Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A) & Ashley Coutu (Pitt Rivers), “New directions in the study of ivories from the Islamic world: A talk and handling session”
- Co-sponsored with the Khalili Research Centre and exceptionally held at the Khalili Research Centre.
4 December 2025
Kristine Tanton (University of Montreal), “Seeing Anew: Digital Methods and the Return to the Medieval Object”
- Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine’s College.
29 January 2026
Robert Mills (UCL), “Wild Forms: Hermits, Saints and Rock Art in Medieval England”
- Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine’s College.
12 March 2026
Emily Guerry (University of Oxford), “Silver trees and pearl crosses: Franco-Mongolian diplomacy and cultural exchange in thirteenth-century Karakorum”
- Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine’s College.
7 May 2026
Cécile Voyer (Université de Poitiers), Title TBC
- Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine’s College.
28 May 2026
Lloyd De Beer (British Museum), “The Many Lives of the Asante Ewers”
- Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine’s College.
4 June 2026
Jessica Barker (Courtauld Institute), “Contemporary Art Meets the Medieval Monastery”
- Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine’s College.
11 June 2026
Meg Bernstein (University of East Anglia), Title TBC
- Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine’s College.
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