History of Art Research Seminar Series | Dr Yusen Yu

Chairs and Change: Furnishing Mongol Iran

Join History of Art for the next talk in the Research Seminar Series chaired by Dr Glaire Anderson.

This lecture will be hybrid. Please book your ticket for attendance in person or online.

This talk explores the changing meaning of furniture in Iran during the Mongol century, revealing how the aesthetics of everyday life were integral to social transformation. It examines how the arrangement of furniture, such as chairs, beds or tables, mediates the relationship between space, objects and the perceiving body.

About Dr Yusen Yu

Yusen Yu is Lecturer in Iranian Islamic Art History at the University of St Andrews. He researches the art and cultural history of medieval Islam and broader Eurasia, with a focus on Iran and Central Asia during the Mongol and Timurid centuries.

Image: Detached manuscript page showing Uljaytu and his Ambassadors, Herat, c. 1415, British Museum. © The Trustees of the British Museum.

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