Upcoming Events
History and Identity in the Eastern Mediterranean 500–1000
Joint Colloquium of the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity with the Corpus Classics Centre
Saturday 13 February 2010 (4th Week), 9.30am–5pm in the
Rainolds Room, Corpus Christi College
Oxford Centre for Medieval History:
‘Global Middle Ages’ workshop
Friday 19 February 2010 (5th Week), 2–4.30pm (to finish in time for attendance at the Ford Lecture)
Rees Davies Room, History Faculty, George Street
The purpose of the workshop is to enable the conversation which began electronically last term about the scope and direction of potential Oxford endeavours in the field of the Global Middle Ages to develop further. The workshop will take the form of a series of ten-minute presentations structured around the themes and questions which were generated by the Michaelmas Term email exchange. These presentations will be followed by a longer and more open-ended discussion about how we want to define and approach 'The Global Middle Ages'.
The short presentations will follow this schedule:
1. Catherine Holmes (History) – Introduction: what do we mean by 'The Global Middle Ages'?
2. John Darwin (History) – Global History: the early modernist's perspective
3. Arietta Papaconstantinou (Oriental Institute) – Global Late Antiquity
4. Hilde de Weerdt (Chinese Studies) – Questions of periodisation
5. Sarah Foot (Theology) – Historiography from China to the Maya: a case study in the Global Middle Ages
Oxford Byzantine Society:
Graduate Workshop: ‘Being Byzantine: Definitions, limits and realities’
Friday 5 and Saturday 6 March 2010 (7th Week)
History Faculty, George Street
This conference will explore the Byzantine identity, and 27 speakers from 13 different cities across Europe will present papers.
£6 for a single day or £10 for both days (fee includes annual membership of the Oxford Byzantine Society). Those interested in attending must register by Sunday 28 February 2010. To register, please email the Byzantine Society.
In Portingalia . . . trans Neptunum
English and Portuguese in exchange (1100–1500)
A workshop on forms of ‘international’ contact in medieval Western Europe
Friday, 28 May 2010 at St John’s College (New Seminar Room), Oxford
Marriage of João I of Portugal and Philippa Plantagenet
(detail from British Library MS Royal 14 E IV — Jean de Wavrin's 'Chronicles of England')
Contact and Exchange in Late Medieval Europe
The coats of arms of England and
Bordeaux, Collegiate Church of St-Seurin,
first half of fifteenth century
Workshop in honour of Malcolm Vale
10–11 September 2010, St John’s College, University of Oxford
This workshop marks the retirement of Malcolm Vale, fellow and tutor in history at St John’s College, and it will explore the theme of political, cultural and ideological contact and exchange across European frontiers in the late Middle Ages. Experts on different European regions will investigate the porousness of boundaries and the nature of exchange between European cultures, and discuss the usefulness and implications of a ‘transnational’ perspective on European history in the late Middle Ages.
Numbers are restricted, but anyone interested in attending is welcome to contact the organisers.
Organisers: Patrick Lantschner, Guilhem Pépin, Robert Shaw, Hannah Skoda, Tiago Viula de Faria
Speakers
Paul Booth (Liverpool), Maria-Joao Branco (Lisbon), Rita Costa-Gomes (Towson, MD),
Gottfried Croenen (Liverpool), Mario Damen (Leiden and Amsterdam), Jan Dumolyn (Ghent),
Jean Dunbabin (Oxford), Jean-Philippe Genet (Paris I), Michael Jones (Nottingham),
Maurice Keen (Oxford), Frédérique Lachaud (Paris IV), Werner Paravicini (Kiel),
Guilhem Pépin (Oxford), Gervase Rosser (Oxford), John Watts (Oxford).