Lectures & Seminars from previous terms: Trinity 2011
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
Convenors: Prof Marc Lauxtermann and Dr Mark Whittow
Trinity Term 2011, WEDNESDAYS 5 pm, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
WEEK 1 (4 May)
Bryan Ward-Perkins (Trinity)
The End of a Civilisation? Germanic West and Arab East Contrasted
WEEK 2 (11 May)
Jas’ Elsner (Corpus Christi)
Leslie Brubaker (University of Birmingham)
Iconoclasm as Discourse: From Antiquity to Byzantium
WEEK 3 (18 May)
Mary Whitby (Merton)
Between Gregory of Nazianzus and Manuel Philes: George of Pisidia on human life
WEEK 4 (25 May)
Marek Jankowiak ( Wolfson)
Were Heraclius’ ecclesiastical unions successful? Retracing the beginnings of the Monothelete controversy
WEEK 5 (1 June)
Cyril Mango (Exeter) and others
Late Roman and Byzantine Archaeology and Art at Oxford: past, present and future
WEEK 6 (8 June)
Tomas Hägg (University of Bergen)
Porphyry’s Plotinus from a biographical perspective (OCLA Special Lecture)
WEEK 7 (15 June)
Alexei Lidov (Moscow State University)
The Holy Fire. The Pascal miracle in Byzantine and Latin visual culture
WEEK 8 (22 June)
Sean Leatherbury (Corpus Christi)
Inscriptions and their frames in late antique churches: forms, functions, meanings
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