Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar, Hilary 2022

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Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar, Oxford University via Zoom, Mondays, 12:30–2:00 pm (GMT)

The Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar is designed to showcase the breadth of graduate research in modern Late Antique and Byzantine Studies and to foster academic collaboration across institutions and sub-disciplines. 

The Seminar will take place weekly on Mondays at 12.30-14.00 (UK) via Zoom. 

Please direct any queries to the organiser James Cogbill.

Schedule

February 7: Becca Grose (Royal Holloway)
Avitus of Vienne and Roman Approaches to Burgundian Royal Women: Ascetics, Virgins and Heretics 

February 14: Marc Czarnuszewicz (St Andrews)
Manzikert 1071: The Arabic and Persian Poetry

February 21: Benjamin Sharkey (Oxford)
The Minority Experience of a Central Asian Christian Community, Explored Through Syriac Gravestone Inscriptions (c. 1201-1345) from the Chu Valley, Kyrgyzstan

February 28: Carolyn Tyler La Rocco (St Andrews)
Christianising Elites and the Religious Topography of Late Roman and Visigothic Iberia

March 7: Matthew Hassall (Cambridge)
Inventing the Tyrant and the Dissident: Procopius and the Limits on Acceptable Speech

March 14: Margherita Riso (Leicester)
Churches at a Crossroads: Archaeological and Landscape Assessment of a Rural Sacred Landmark in Central Sicily

March 21: Canan Arıkan (Vienna)
Clerics and Building in Early Byzantine Inscriptions

March 28: Blake Lorenz (KU Leuven)
The Epigraphy of the Dome of the Rock in Relation to the Sacred Landscape of Jerusalem

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