OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY
OXFORD LISTINGS: Week 2
Hilary Term 2019
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MONDAY 21st January
14.15 Seminar in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies
Weston Library, 1st Floor, Horton Room
Daniel Sawyer
Against dullness: some ways to learn from (and enjoy) ‘average’ manuscripts
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15.00 Medieval Archaeology Seminar
Institute of Archaeology Lecture Room
Helena Hamerow
Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The bioarchaeology of an agricultural revolution
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16.15 Gender in Classical Archaeology Seminar Series
The Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’
Dr Glenys Davies (University of Edinburgh)
Gender and body language in Roman art revisited
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17.00 Medieval History Seminar
All Souls College, Warton Room
Dr Amy Singer (Tel Aviv / All Souls)
An Ottoman Capital Idea: Edirne 1402-1453
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TUESDAY 22nd January
12.00 Climate and Chronology Group
School of Archaeology, 1 South Parks Road, Lecture Theatre
Prof. Christopher Bronk Ramsey, University of Oxford
Progress towards an integrated approach for chronological projects
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14:00 Later Medieval Seminar – Commemoration
St John’s College, 21 St Giles seminar room
Emily Guerry (Kent)
Picturing the Passion in the Capetian present
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14:00 Byzantine Epigraphy
The Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’
Dr Ida Toth
Byzantine Epigrams with Andreas Rhoby
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17:00 Medieval Church and Culture
Harris Manchester College, Charles Wellbeloved Room
Ben Williams (Oriental Institute)
In the Clothes of Men: Women’s Mobility and the Book of Ruth
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WEDNESDAY 23rd January
12.00-13.00 Money in the Medieval West and Byzantium
Ashmolean Museum, Floor 2, Coin Study Centre, off Gallery 36 Japan after 1860
Dr Julian Baker
The Byzantine “Dark Ages”, ca. 600-800
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13.00-14.00 Early Medieval Britain Network
Balliol College
Janina Ramirez
Translating the Medieval World for Young Readers
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17.00 Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar
The Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’
Andreas Rhoby (Vienna)
Byzance après Byzance? Metrical inscriptions c. 1450-1650
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17.00 The Slade Lectures 2019: Islam and Image: Beyond Aniconism and Iconoclasm
Maths Institute, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter
Mimesis and Magic: The Lives of Images Revisited
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17.00 Oxford Archaeological Fieldwork Seminar
Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont Street, Lecture Room
Dr. Emily Forster (FeedSax Project)
Investigating Early Medieval Land Use: Pollen Coring at Sydlings Copse, Oxfordshire
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THURSDAY 24th January
11.00-12.30 Byzantine Art and Archaeology Seminar
Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, First Floor Seminar Room
Andreas Rhoby (Vienna)
“The light of Christ shines for all” – the meaning of crosses with tetragrams for Byzantine society
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12.00 RLAHA Martin Aitken Seminar
School of Archaeology, 1 South Parks Road, Lecture Theatre
No Seminar. All day presentations for the Associate Professorship in Archaeological Science – All welcome to attend
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14.00 Celebrities, Saints & Scholars: Fannish Devotions, Medieval and Modern
45 St Giles (St John’s Research Centre, Lecture room)
Dr Alicia Spencer-Hall (QMUL)
Celebrities, Saints & Scholars: Fannish Devotions, Medieval and Modern
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17.00 Late Roman Seminar
Corpus Christi College
Bryan Ward-Perkins (Oxford University)
Diversity in the late antique cult of saints
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17.00 Khalili Research Centre Seminars
Wolfson College
Alya Karame (Khalili Research Centre)
Change, Continuity and Rupture: Qur’an Manuscript Production in the Central and Eastern Islamic Lands of the 11th Century
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17.00 Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance music
All Souls, Wharton Room
John Milsom (Liverpool Hope University)
Polyphony, in four parts: composing, performing, listening, reflecting
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FRIDAY 25th January
10.00-11.30 Byzantine Text Seminar
Ioannou Center, 66 St Giles
Professor Lauxtermann
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11.00-12.45 KRC Manuscript Viewing Sessions
Weston Library, Horton Seminar Room
Qurʾan manuscripts (UG)
Registration is required. Please contact teresa.fitzherbert@orinst.ox.ac.uk
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12.00-13.00 Byzantine Literature
Ioannou Center, 66 St Giles
Professor Lauxtermann
