Lectures & Seminars from previous terms: Michaelmas 2011
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
Convenor: Dr Mark Whittow
Wednesdays at 5 p.m.
The Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St. Giles
WEEK 1 (12 October)
Chrysi Kotsifou (Corpus Christi)
Encounters with the holy in Byzantine Egypt: a ‘communitas’ of pilgrims or a confirmation of status?
WEEK 2 (19 October)
Richard Gem
St Peter's in Rome: chronology and design of the 4th-century basilica
WEEK 3 (26 October)
Robert Hoyland (St. Cross)
The ‘eastern source’ and the historiography of the seventh- and eighth-century Near East
WEEK 4 (2 November)
Bert Smith (Lincoln)
Care of the past: Some buildings and their statues in late antique Aphrodisias
WEEK 5 (9 November)
Elizabeth Jeffreys (Exeter)
Manganeios Prodromos, a rhetorician for the masses
WEEK 6 (16 November)
Jeremy Johns (Wolfson)
The Edmund de Unger Ewer: a newly discovered early Fatimid rock crystal ewer
WEEK 7 (23 November)
Boris Maslov (University of Chicago)
Gregory of Nazianzus and the invention of theōsis: a case study in historical semantics
WEEK 8 (30 November)
Eric Rebillard (Cornell University)
***OCLA Special Lecture***
Christians and Violence against Pagans at the turn of the fifth Century in North Africa
Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar
Convenors: Lukas A. Schachner and Georgi R. Parpulov
THURSDAYS 12:00-1:00, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
WEEK 1 (5 May)
Jeremy Johns (Wolfson)
Muslim Artists and Christian Art in the Painted Ceilings of the Cappella Palatina, Palermo
WEEK 2 (12 May)
Mark Jackson (University of Newcastle)
Recent Excavations of the Byzantine Settlement at Kilise Tepe
WEEK 3 (19 May)
Angeliki Lymberopoulou (Open University)
Who, Where, Why and How? Four Basic Steps in Fresco Decoration on Venetian-Dominated Crete
WEEK 4 (26 May)
Bryan Ward-Perkins (Trinity)
Excavating 'Byzantine' Luna, 30 Years on
WEEK 5 (2 June)
Richard Marks (Cambridge University)
The ‘Afterlife’ of the Icon of the Mother of God of Vladimir
WEEK 6 (9 June)
Helen Whitehouse (Oriental Institute)
A Unicorn amidst the Birds and Beasts: An Unusual Drawing on an Oxyrhynchus Papyrus
WEEK 7 (16 June)
Ioanna Christophoraki (Academy of Athens)
A Tale of Two Icons: St Martin and Madonna with St Francis
WEEK 8 (23 June)
Peter Frankopan (Worcester)
Byzantine Sigillography