Lectures & Seminars from previous terms: Michaelmas Term 2010
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
Convenors: Prof Marc Lauxtermann and Dr Mark Whittow
Michaelmas Term 2010, WEDNESDAYS 5 pm
Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
WEEK 1 (*13 October)
Prof. Jean-Pierre Sodini (Paris I – Sorbonne):
New results from excavations at Qal‘at Sem‘an (1999-2010)
WEEK 2 (20 October)
Dr Jas’ Elsner (Oxford):
Icon and architecture: the material articulation of the Holy in East Christian art
WEEK 3 (27 October)
Prof Michael Jeffreys (Sydney/Oxford):
Reconstruction of a central personality of the Byzantine eleventh century without the help of narrative sources: Constantine nephew of Keroularios
WEEK 4 (3 November)
Dr Peter Bell (Oxford):
Legitimacy: what it means, what it meant, why it mattered in sixth-century Constantinople
WEEK 5 (10 November)
Dr Marlia Mango (Oxford):
'The donkey, the camel, some olive pits and wine: recent archaeological tales from Androna in Syria
WEEK 6 (17 November)
Dr Ida Toth and Dr Milena Grabacic (Oxford):
The Genoese Pallio and the silken diplomacy of Michael VIII Palaiologos
WEEK 7 (24 November)
Dr Meredith Riedel (Oxford):
The 'Taktika' of Leo VI and the opposition of ideologies
WEEK 8 (1 December)
Dr Pamela Armstrong (Oxford):
Hellenization and the restoration of Orthodoxy in the Peloponnese in the tenth century
* jointly with the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity
Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
Convenors: by Lukas A. Schachner and Georgi R. Parpulov
THURSDAYS of weeks 2-8, 12:00-1:00, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
WEEK 2 (October 21)
Dr David Gwynn (Royal Holloway, London):
Archaeology and Heresy: Material Culture and the ‘Arian’ Controversy
WEEK 3 (October 28)
Dr Judith McKenzie (Archaeology):
Who Made the Mosaics in the Great Mosque in Damascus?
WEEK 4 (November 4)
Dr Elif Keser (Wolfson):
Eighth-Century Churches of the Tur Abdin
WEEK 5 (November 11)
Javier Martinez (Worcester):
The Aqueduct of Reccopolis: The First Survey Season
WEEK 6 (November 18)
Foteini Spingou (Keble):
Patronage and Public Image: Epigrams on Portraits of Emperor Manuel Komnenos
WEEK 7 (November 25)
Dr Chrysi Kotsifou (Classics):
Life in a 10th-century Egyptian Monastery: Coptic Dipinti from the Monastery of John the Little in Wadi n'Natrun
WEEK 8 (December 2)
Dr Tassos Papacostas (Kings College, London):
The Cult of the True Cross and the Architectural Setting of Pilgrimage in Byzantine Cyprus
Weekly schedule of lectures, classes and seminars for Masters Degrees in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
All sessions take place in the Ioannou Centre for Research in Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles, unless otherwise indicated
Monday:
- 9 -10.30 Late Antique Archaeology & Art (class) - Dr Schachner
- 11.00 Elementary Greek - Examination Schools
- 12.00 Late Antique Archaeology (lecture) – Dr Schachner
Tuesday:
- 11.30-1.00 Byzantine Art/Archaeology (class) - Dr Parpulov
Wednesday:
- 9.30-11.00 Introduction to the History of Late Antiquity, 284- 565 (class) - Dr McLynn
- 11.00 Elementary Greek - Examination Schools
- 1.00 Byzantine Greek - Dr Toth
- 2.00 Medieval Latin (Group A) - Dr Toth
- 3.00-4.30 History of the Greek Language – Prof. Lauxtermann
- 3.15-4.45 Introduction to Greek Palaeography and Codicology – Dr Parpulov
- 5.00 Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar – Prof. Lauxtermann and Dr Whittow
Thursday:
- 12.00 Byzantine Art and Archaeology Seminar - Dr Parpulov and Dr Schachner
- 2.00 Medieval Latin (Group B)- Dr Tot
- 2.00-4.00 Introduction to the History of Byzantium, 500-1500 (class) – Dr Whittow, Corpus Christi
- 5.00 Late Roman Seminar – Dr McLynn and Dr Ward-Perkins, Corpus Christi
Friday:
- 10-11.30 Byzantine Text Seminar (Female Saints’ Lives) - Prof. Lauxtermann
- 11.00 Elementary Greek - Examination Schools
- 12.00 Byzantine Literature (Epistolography) – Prof. Lauxtermann
- 1.00 Byzantine Greek - Dr Toth
- 2.00-4.00 (weeks 2, 4, 6, 8) Byzantine Theatron – Prof. Lauxtermann
- 5.00 (weeks 2, 4, 6, 8) Late Antique and Byzantine reading group - Ms Thompson