Podcasts & Videos
We aim to put videos of Classical Art Research Centre events online whenever possible. You will find a variety of events and podcasts on this page. Some earlier recordings are also hosted on the University of Oxford Podcasts page and iTunes U.
Many more recordings for our Gandhara Connections project are on our dedicated page.
Parthian Art & the Graeco-Roman World
This hybrid workshop, hosted in Oxford with an online audience via Zoom, addressed unresolved questions about the identity of Parthian art and its complex relationship with the classical tradition. Ranging from the origins of the Arsacid dynasty in the 3rd century BC to the emergence of a new visual culture under Sasanian rule in the 3rd century AD, this workshop will bring together a panel of international experts to consider how Parthian art connected with the art traditions of Hellenistic Asia and the Roman Empire. We will consider different media, including sculpture, coins, and luxury art, and use recent discoveries and fresh research to cast new light on old problems, including the issue of whether Parthian art even existed as a coherent phenomenon.
Funding for this event is very generously provided by Richard Beleson in honour of Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis.
See the full programme here.
Videos of the proceedings are currently being processed and will be available shortly.
DAY 1Part 1Prof Peter Stewart, CARC, University of OxfordWelcome and IntroductionDr Henry Colburn, Cooper Union, New YorkGreek style and the problem of Parthian artProf Lucinda Dirven, Radboud Universiteit, NijmegenParthian art as a non-stylistic phenomenon in the Arsacid EmpirePart 2Prof Stefan Hauser (Universität Konstanz)Appropriateness: some thoughts about style in the later Arsakid EmpireProf Matthew P. Canepa (University of California, Irvine)Parthian art and architecture and the post-Hellenistic world: an agonistic co-creationDr Fabrizio Sinisi (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna)Parthian art, Arsacid art, or art(s) under the Parthians? Naming things (before trying) to understand themNew finds of Late Hellenistic sculpture from Qalatga Darband in Iraqi KurdistanProf Irene Bald Romano (University of Arizona) and Dr John MacGinnis (University of Cambridge)DAY 2Part 1Prof Pierfrancesco Callieri (Università di Bologna)Travelling craftsmanship in non-Mediterranean HellenismDr Gunvor Lindström (German Archaeological Institute, Berlin)The Denavar Bowl and the problem of Greek Style in the Arsakid EmpireDr Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis (Curator Emerita, British Museum, London)Parthian internal rivalries and encounters with RomePart 2Professor Barbara Kaim (University of Warsaw)Stucco decoration in Parthian architectureProf Ted Kaizer (Durham University)The Hellenism of the Desert CitiesProf Rubina Raja (Aarhus University)The Palmyrene ‘Problem’: Palmyra’s role in discussions about Graeco-Roman and Parthian ArtDr Blair Fowlkes Childs (New York)Away from ‘Parthian art’? Glimpses of northern and western influence on sculptures from Dura-Europos and PalmyraArt under the Seleukid Empire: New Perspectives, 28th-29th September 2023
Classical Art and Ancient India - Ancient Art Connections workshop 21st-22nd March 2023
'Classical Art and Ancient India', a hybrid workshop supported by the Bagri Foundation, was the first event in CARC's #AncientArtConnections initiative as well as building upon the Gandhara Connections project. The workshop brought together invited international speakers and a worldwide audience to address a topic very closely related to Gandhara and vital for placing classical art in its global context: the question of how much mutual artistic exchange occurred between other parts of India, Greece and Rome in antiquity, and what we stand to learn by studying their art traditions alongside each other.
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Speakers' abstracts now downloadable here.
Workshop programme downloadable here.
Watch the videos of the presentations and discussions below.
DAY 1
Introduction
Keynote lecture by William Dalrymple, From Berenike to Ajanta: The Romano-Egyptian Connection to the Early Buddhist Art of South and Central Asia
Greeks and the Art of India: Philosophy through Art, Prof Richard Stoneman (University of Exeter)
Yavanas in Early Indian inscriptions, Prof Upinder Singh (Ashoka University, Sonipat)
Beyond Gandhara: Syncretic Arts of the Early Indian Ocean World (1st century BCE – 3rd century CE), Dr Sunil Gupta (Indian Archaeological Society, New Delhi)
Small Figurines Shaping the Ancient Global World, Dr Serena Autiero (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
DAY 2
Coining Koine – Reading Numismatic Images in Context of Global Exchange, Dr Jeremy Simmons (University of Maryland)
The Navagraha (the Nine Planets) in Indian Art and their Graeco-Roman Connections, Dr Mandira Sharma (New Delhi)
Reflections of Roman Art in Southern India: Amaravati and Nagarjunakonda, Dr Elizabeth Rosen Stone (New York)
About Ivory and Theatre – The Exchange between Āndhradeśa and the West, Prof Monika Zin (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leipzig)
Response by Prof Juhyung Rhi (Seoul National University) and closing discussion.
Beazley for the 21st Century, CARC Annual Workshop held 26th-27th September, 2022
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Poster Presentation
Eleni Hasaki (University of Arizona) and Diane Harris Cline (George Washington University): Network Visualizations of Beazley's ABV and ARV Datasets: The Shape Sectors and Influential Artisans in the Athenian Kerameikoi
26th September 2022Session OneDr Peter Stewart (Director, Classical Art Research Centre)Welcome and IntroductionDr Dyfri Williams (Centre de Recherches en Archéologie et Patrimoine, Université libre de Bruxelles)Beazley, BAPD and BeyondProf Caspar Meyer (Bard Graduate Center, New York)Beazley the CraftsmanProf John Oakley (College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA)Beazley in the Classroom
Session TwoProf Corinna Reinhardt (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)Iconographic Studies and Digital Image Recognition: The Important Role of Beazley’s Photo ArchiveProf Cécile Colonna (INHA, Paris)Beazley’s Method and the Ancient and Modern Life of VasesSession ThreeProf Robin Osborne (University of Cambridge)Beazley and Artistic Personalities27th September 2022Session FourDr Thomas Mannack (CARC, University of Oxford)Beazley's Painters and their FavouritesProf Sheramy Bundrick (University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL)Personal or Strictly Business? Creativity and Commerce in the Athenian Potters' QuarterDr Jasper Gaunt (Curator of Ancient Art, The Al Thani Collection, Paris)Potter and Bronze-Smith in Classical Athens: Beazley's Potter and Painter revisitedProf Amy Smith (University of Reading)Late Black Figure Festival WareDr Diana Rodríguez Pérez (CARC, University of Oxford)Leveraging Beazley’s Legacy for the Study of Athenian Figure-Decorated Pottery in the Iberian Peninsula: ‘Heirloom’ Vases in Iberian Tombs and SettlementsProf Kathleen Lynch (University of Cincinnati)Concluding response and discussion
Textile Art in the Graeco-Roman World, CARC Annual Workshop held 26th-27th September, 2019
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Poster Session
Textile Finds from the Rhineland, First to Fourth Centuries AD: Roman Customs and Fashion in the North of the Empire - Dr Petra Linscheid (University of Bonn)26th September 2019Session OneDr Peter Stewart (Director, Classical Art Research Centre)Welcome and IntroductionDr Susanna Harris (University of Glasgow)Textile Wealth of the Archaic Greek Goddesses: A Textile Technology Approach to RepresentationSession TwoDr Stella Spantidaki (Director, ARTEX, Athens)Poikila Himatia: Textile Embellishment in Classical GreeceSession ThreeDr Dimitra Andrianou (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens)Furniture Textiles in Classical and Hellenistic Interiors of the Mediterranean World Dr Audrey Gouy (Marie Curie Research Fellow, University of Copenhagen/University of Oxford)Figure-Decorated Textiles in Classical Etruscan Art Session FourDr Jónatan Ortiz-Carcía (University of Alcalá)Painting Eternity: Decorated Shrouds from Roman Egypt27th September 2019Session FiveDr Amandine Mérat (Independent Egyptologist and textile specialist)When Graeco-Roman Allegories Meet So-Called Coptic Weavers: The Representation of Gaia and the Four Seasons on 1st Millennium AD Egyptian TextilesSession SixDr Elsa Yvanez (University of Copenhagen)Textile Dimensions: Art, Iconography and Crafts in Late Antique NubiaSession SevenJennifer Moldenhauer (Skulpturensammlung und Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin)Woven Adventures: Depictions of Heroes on Egyptian Textiles from Late Antiquity and the First Centuries of Muslim Rule (This presentation is not available as a podcast.)Dr Regula Schorta (Abegg Foundation, Riggisberg)Late Antique’ Textiles from Central AsiaSession EightDr Peter Stewart (CARC, Oxford)An Extensible Art: Yingpan Man’s Tunic and its Roman Connections
Ancient Britain and Classical Art
CARC Annual Workshop held 27th-28th September, 2018
Transmission: The Migration of Iconography in Classical Art
CARC Annual Workshop held 28th-29th September, 2017
Download workshop programme28th September 2017Session OneDr Peter Stewart (Director, Classical Art Research Centre)Welcome and IntroductionProf Luca Giuliani (Humboldt-Universität, Berlin)Tales and Images of Polyphemus' Blinding: Ways of TransmissionSession TwoProf Katherine Dunbabin (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario)The Transmission of Scenes from Menander in Graeco-Roman ArtSession ThreeDr. Alexandra Dardenay (Université Toulouse II Jean-Jaures - CNRS)The Migration of the Iconographic Theme of Aeneas in the Roman Occident: Vectors, Actors and ModalitiesMs Alison Pollard (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)The Everyday in the Epic: Extra-Homeric Imagery in Roman Iliadic FriezesSession FourProf Nikolaus Dietrich (Universität Heidelberg)Conceptualizing the Copy without an Original in Roman SculptureProf Bettina Bergmann (Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts)Pictorial Schemes as Bearers of Meaning29th September 2017Session FiveDr Arne Reinhardt (Universität Heidelberg)Transmission and the Replication Chain: The Mechanics of Clay and Plaster-based Reproduction in Graeco-Roman AntiquityDr Peter Stewart (CARC, University of Oxford)The Mysteriously Transmitted Grecian Touch': Hellenistic Art, Roman Sarcophagi, and Gandharan SculptureSession SixDr Will Wootton (King's College London)Response & Concluding Discussion
CARC Special Lecture 8th May, 2017
Prof Marian FeldmanStyle as a Fragment of the Ancient World: A View from the Iron Age Levant and Assyria 8th May, 2017
The Maker's Share in Ancient Greek Art
CARC Annual Workshop held 26th-27th September, 2016
Other Podcasts / Videos
- Research in Classical Archaeology
Discussion between Sir John Boardman and Donna Kurtz on the subject of being classical archaeology researchers and academics and some of the challenges and opportunities they face.
- Introduction to Art of the Ancient World
Donna Kurtz and Sir John Boardman talk about Sir John's life, his career and experiences as a classical scholar and also the relationship works of art from different cultures around the ancient world have with one another.
- Treasures of Oxford - Athenian Wine Drinking Cup.
Sir John Boardman talks about a wine drinking cup made in Ancient Athens; he also talks about what we can learn from it about Ancient Greek culture and the kind of lifestyle the Greeks had.
- Studying Classical Gems - Classics Alumni Day 15th March 2014
Prof Sir John Boardman delivers his lecture on "Studying Classics Gems" as part of the Alumni day - "Classics from Helen to the Hijaz"
- The Relief Plaques of Eastern Eurasia and China - The Ordos Bronzes - video by Sir John Boardman
