The Slade Lectures - Islam and Image: Beyond Aniconism and Iconoclasm

16 January - 06 March 2019

Mathematical Institute, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road OX2 6GG

Speaker: Finbarr Barry Flood (Director, Silsila: Center for Material Histories, New York University)

Lecture One: The Making of an Image Problem

Lecture Two: Mimesis and Magic: The Lives of Images Revisited

Lecture Three: Regulating the Gaze in the Medieval Mosque

Lecture Four: Economies of Imaging: Bowls, Baths and Bazaars

Lecture Five: Grammars of Defacement: Censure and Redemption

Lecture Six: Figuring for Piety: Strategies of Negotiation

Lecture Seven: Statue Histories: Iconoclasm as Anti-Colonialism

Lecture Eight: Beyond Enlightenment? Towards a Conclusion