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

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. The speaker will present for 40-45 minutes, followed by audience questions and discussion.

Please direct any queries to the organiser James Cogbill.

Schedule
January 23: Rebecca Amendola (La Sapienza Università di Roma)
Manuscripts in Motion: The Parma Gospel Book (Ms. Pal. 5) and Its Journey to Italy

January 30: Emma Huig (Universiteit Gent)
Stephanites and Ichnelates: recovering the Eugenian recension?

February 6: Daniel Alford (Oxford)
Adults, Children and Other Animals: The Construction of the Zoroastrian Household

February 13: James Duncan (Liverpool)
Mechanical Dragons and Underground Cults: Quodvultdeus’s Hidden Pagans

February 20: Nathan D C Websdale (Oxford)
The Humbled Generation: Racial Otherization and Ethnic Contraction in Byzantium in the Witnesses of the Fourth Crusade

February 27: Ben Morris (Cardiff)
"Against All Men": The Movement of Military Service in Byzantine and English Treaties, 900-1200

March 6: Juliana Santos Dinoá Medeiros (Uniwersytet Warszawski)
Hagiography and miracle performance in seventh-century Gaul

March 13: Maria Rukavichnikova (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
War Discourse in Times of Crisis: Authorial Strategies in Byzantine Historical Literature of the 14th century

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