Lectures & Seminars from previous terms: Michaelmas 2008
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
Conveners: James Howard-Johnston and Marc Lauxtermann
WEDNESDAYS at 5pm Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, Lecture Theatre
Week 1 (15 October):
Dr Peter Frankopan (Oxford):
How should we read the Alexiad?
Week 2 (22 October)
Dr Mark Vessey:
Augustine's Literary Professions
(jointly with the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity)
Week 3 (29 October)
Mr James Howard-Johnston (Oxford)
Theophanes and the Seventh Century
Week 4 (5 November)
Dr Olga Karagiorgou:
Nikephoros Botaneiates and his era on the evidence of his lead seals
Week 5 (12 November)
Professor Zbigniew Fiema:
The Jebel Haroun Project in Syria
(jointly with the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity)
Week 6 (19 November)
Dr Staffan Wahlgren:
The Chronicle of the Logothete
Week 7 (26 November)
Professor John Matthews (Yale):
Reading the Mind of a Traveller: The Cultural Landscape of the Bordeaux Itinerary
(jointly with the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity)
Week 8 (3 December)
Dr Georgi Parpulov (Oxford):
The Emperor Michael VII and His Manuscripts
Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art seminar
Conveners: Georgi Parpulov, Lukas Amadeus Schachner
WEDNESDAYS at 12 noon in Weeks 2-4 and 6-8
TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY at 12 noon in Week 5
Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, First Floor Seminar Room (except Tuesday 11 November)
Week 2 (22 October)
Dr Lukas Amadeus Schachner (Oxford)
From the olive to ‘Holy oil’
Week 3 (29 October)
Dr Georgi Parpulov (Oxford):
The chronology of Sinai icons
Week 4 (5 November)
Marlena Whiting (Oxford):
Monastic hospitality in the Late Antique Holy Land
Week 5 (11 November)
Zbigniew Fiema:
Remarks on the development and use of the colonnaded street in Petra
NB different venue: Seminar Room of the Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont Street)
Week 5 (12 November)
Dr Agnes Vokaer (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Production and Exchange in Byzantine Syria: the contribution of the ceramic studies
Week 6 (19 November)
Elif Keser-Kayaalp (Wolfson College):
Bēth Qadīshā and its significance in West Syrian monasteries
Week 7 (26 November )
Simon Davies (Oxford):
Aspects of secular sculpture in medieval Constantinople
Week 8
Dr Theo Papaioannou (Oxford) 3 December Reconstructing the trade patterns of Late Antiquity on the basis of ceramic evidence
Late Roman Seminar
Convenors: Neil McLynn and Bryan Ward-Perkins
THURSDAYS at 5pm in the Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College
Week 1 (16 October)
No Seminar
Week 2 (23 October)
Mark Vessey (University of British Columbia):
Cassiodorus and late Roman Codex-Culture
Week 3 (30 October)
Mark Humphries (Swansea):
Ammianus, Constantius and the Fabric of Rome
Week 4 (6 November)
Oliver Nicholson (University of Minnesota):
Plaster Saints or Suicidal Loonies? Motives for Martyrdom in the Early Church
Week 5 (13 November)
Bert Smith and Bryan Ward-Perkins (Oxford):
An Introduction to ‘The Last Statues of Antiquity’ Project
Week 6 (20 November)
Susannah Belcher (Oxford):
Ammianus at the End: The Ending of the Res Gestae
Week 7 (27 November)
John Matthews (Yale):
The Notitia Urbis Constantinopolitanae as an Urban Portrait
Week 8 (4 December)
Clifford Ando (Chicago):
Praesentia Numinis: Gods, Objects and Ritual in Christian Apologetics