Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar, Oxford University via Zoom, Mondays, 12:30–2:00 pm (UK)
The Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar is an initiative sponsored by Oxford Medieval Studies (TORCH) and Worcester College, Oxford. It 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
October 25: Sofia Simões Coelho (Oxford)
Holy Fools in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Rus’
November 1: Thomas R. Langley (Cambridge)
Julian, Constantinople, and the Role of Civic Patriotism in the Fourth Century
November 8: Jessica Varsallona (Birmingham)
Michael VIII Palaiologos and the southern shore of Constantinople
November 15: Nicola Ernst (Exeter)
The Athanasian Emperors: Reconsidering Orthodox and Heretical Emperors in the 340s
November 22: Callan Meynell (Oxford)
Roman? Greek? Byzantine? Some thoughts on the trial of Maximus the Confessor and Roman identity
November 29: John-Francis Martin (Oxford)
Byzantine Catholics (exact title TBC)
December 6: Kelly E. McClinton (Oxford)
The Case Romane del Celio: Living in Rome in Late Antiquity
December 13: Mark Huggins (Edinburgh)
The Many Byzantine Chrysostoms: A Look at Competing Sanctification Narratives at the Heart of Byzantine Spirituality