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
Please note that there is no need to register if you have previously subscribed to the seminar mailing list.