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About Tanja Tolar
I studied Art History (BA) in Ljubljana, Slovenia and Medieval Studies (MA) at Central European University, Budapest before coming to SOAS to study History of Art and Archaeology (MA). In 2012 I was an intern on a project “Illuminating Objects”, researching one object from a group of Spanish lusterware from the Courtauld Institute. I have completed my PhD (SOAS, 2014) on a topic of Islamic enamelled glass and its connections with Byzantium and Venice. Since 2014, I have been teaching as a Senior Teaching Fellow at SOAS, specializing in topic such as Art and architecture of the Islamic world, Cross-cultural dimensions of Islamic material culture, Glass and Ceramics of Islamic lands and Orientalism.Tanja Tolar is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London.
NBN Episodes hosted by Tanja:
May 27, 2022
Sea Change
Textiles were the second-most-traded commodity in world history, preceded only by grain. In the Ottoman Empire, in particular, the sale and exchange o…
April 20, 2022
The Invention of Norman Visual Culture
In The Invention of Norman Visual Culture: Art, Politics, and Dynastic Ambition (Cambridge UP, 2020), Lisa Reilly establishes a new interpretive parad…
March 25, 2022
Mongol Court Dress, Identity Formation, and Global Exchange
The Mongol period (1206-1368) marked a major turning point of exchange - culturally, politically, and artistically - across Eurasia. The wide-ranging …
February 4, 2022
Destinations in Mind
In Destinations in Mind: Portraying Places on the Roman Empire's Souvenirs (Oxford UP, 2021), Kimberly Cassibry asks how objects depicting different s…
January 5, 2022
Tree of Pearls
Shajar al-Durr--known as "Tree of Pearls"--began her remarkable career as a child slave, given as property to Sultan Salih of Egypt. She became his co…
December 21, 2021
From Granada to Berlin
Part of the series CAHIM Connecting Art Histories in the Museum, Anna McSweeney's book From Granada to Berlin: The Alhambra Cupola (Kettler Verlag, 20…