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

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 (BST) via Zoom. The speaker will present for 40-45 minutes, followed by audience questions and discussion. 

To register and for further information, please contact the organiser James Cogbill. 

Schedule 

10th May: Cristina Cocola (Universiteit Gent & Katholieke Universiteit te Leuven)
Feeling Repentance in Byzantium: A Study on the Literary Sources of Katanyktic Poetry 

17th May:  Ben Kybett (Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge)
Themistius and the Muses: Religion, Rhetoric, and Classical Statuary in Fourth-Century Constantinople 

24th May: Grace Stafford (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz)
Between the Living and the Dead: Use, Reuse, and Imitation of Painted Portraits in Late Antiquity 

31st May: Josh Hitt (St. Hilda’s College, Oxford)
Ageing, Rejuvenation and Patronage in Twelfth-Century Byzantium 

7th June: Constanța Burlacu (Merton College, Oxford)
Monastic Presence and Book Circulation in the Lands North of the Danube (15th-16th Centuries) 

14th June: Kyriakos Fragkoulis (University of Birmingham)
(Re)contextualising a Late Antique City through the Ceramic Record: The Case of Dion in Macedonia (Pieria, Greece)