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Islamic Art Circle LecturesChaired by Professor Doris Behrens-AbouseifAll lectures begin at 7.00 p.m. in the Khalili Lecture Theatre (Main School Lecture Theatre), Philips Building, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG.For further information please contact Rosalind Wade Haddon: 01608 730769.Incorporating Spolia in Alexandria (10 October 2013)Dr Hélène Fragaki (Independent scholar, Paris)Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre,7:00 PM - 9:00 PMFrom Ibn al-Haytham to Kandinsky: the Unexpected History of Egyptian Shadow Puppetry (13 November 2013)Professor Marcus Milwright (Islamic Art and Architecture, Director, Programme for Medieval Studies, University of Victoria, Canada)Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre,7:00 PM - 9:00 PMCollecting from the Past or Appropriating the Present: the Dilemma in Contemporary Iranian Art (11 December 2013)Dr Hamid Keshmirshekan (Barakat Trust Research Fellow, University of Oxford)Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre,7:00 PM - 9:00 PMThe Hadassah and Daniel Khalili Memorial Lecture in Islamic Art and Culture/A Battle of Books: ͑Abbasid Patronage and Qur ͑anic Manuscripts (8 January 2014)Professor François Déroche (Director of Studies, École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, Paris)Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre,7:00 PM - 9:00 PMMamluk Relief Wares (5 February 2014)Professor Bethany Walker (University of Bonn)Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre,7:00 PM - 9:00 PMThe Bahari Foundation Lecture in Iranian Art and Culture (12 March 2014)Dr Sussan Babai ͑ īRussell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre,7:00 PM - 9:00 PMOttoman Jerusalem (23 April 2014)Dr Yusuf Natsheh (Director of Awqāf, Jerusalem)Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre,7:00 PM - 9:00 PM͑Ali of Gelibolu and the Istanbul Art Market in the 1580s (14 May 2014)Professor Serpil Bağci (Department of History, Hacettepe University, Ankara)Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre,7:00 PM - 9:00 PMFabulous Fakes and How to Spot Them: some Recent ʻHistoricʼ Metalwork (11 June 2014)Rachel Ward (Independent Scholar)Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre,7:00 PM - 9:00 PMInfos:http://www.soas.ac.uk/art/islac/