Βυζάντιο explained Newsletter - Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar
OXFORD BYZANTINE GRADUATE SEMINAR - TRINITY TERM 2023
Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar (Trinity 2023)
(Sent on behalf of James Cogbill and Kelly E. McClinton, organisers of the Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar)
The Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar is designed to showcase the breadth of graduate research in modern Late Antique and Byzantine Studies and to foster academic collaboration across institutions and sub-disciplines.
Mondays, 12:30 – 14:00 (BST), via Zoom.
Organised by James Cogbill and Kelly E. McClinton.
To register, please contact james.cogbill@worc.ox.ac.uk.
Monday 24th April [1st Week]
Prolet Decheva (University College Dublin), Late Antique Personifications of Abstract Ideas and Elite Identity
Monday 1st May [2nd Week]
Paul Ulishney (University of Oxford), The Crisis of the Chalcedonian Episcopate in Egypt, c. 652-c. 710
Monday 8th May [3rd Week]
Valeria Annunziata (La Sapienza Università di Roma), Challenging Authorities: How and Why Byzantine Scholars Emended Classical and Authoritative Texts
Monday 15th May [4th Week]
Benjamin Morris (Cardiff University), ‘Against All Men’: The Movement of Military Service in Byzantine and English Treaties, 900-1200
Monday 22nd May [5th Week]
Emily Chesley (Princeton University), Collateral Damage: Eastern Women’s Experiences in the Roman-Persian Wars, 4th-6th Centuries
Monday 5th June [7th Week]
Peter Boudreau (McGill University), Keeping Time in Byzantium: Temporal Imagery and Thought in the Calendars of Later Byzantium
Monday 12th June [8th Week]
Jack Dooley (Royal Holloway, University of London), Between the ‘self’ and the ‘other’: the case of the gasmouloi in Late Byzantium
Monday 19th June [9th Week]
Rachel Catherine Patt (Princeton University), From Pliny’s Potter to Proclus’ Vision: Tracing the Role of Pothos in Byzantine Visual Culture
The Seminar takes place weekly on Mondays at 12.30-14.00 (UK time), via Zoom. The speaker will present for 40-45 minutes, followed by audience questions and discussion.
To register, please contact the organiser at james.cogbill@worc.ox.ac.uk. Please note that there is no need to register if you have previously subscribed to the seminar mailing list.