Early Slavonic Webinar, University of Oxford via Zoom, Tuesdays, October–November 2021, 5:00 pm (UK)

The Early Slavonic Webinar at University of Oxford begins on October 12. Zoom information for each webinar can be found HERE. Convener: Dr Alexandra Vukovich.

Program

October 12
When were the relics of St. Clement brought to Kiev and who brought them?
Oleksiy Tolochko (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

October 19
How to deal with Steppe Fauna? Remarks on the Byzantine perception of the nomads and on the Byzantine policy towards them (10th-12th centuries)
Aleksander Paroń (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences)

October 26
Identity and Identification in Late Medieval Western Balkans
Neven Isailović (The Institute of History Belgrade)

November 2
The Black Death and its consequences for the Jochi ulus and the successor states (The Tatar Khanates, Moscow and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania)
Timur Khajdarov (Kazan Federal University)

November 9
"Let Your Brother be to you like a Heathen and a Tax Collector": Fashioning an Orthodox Dynastic Identity during the Reign of Ivan III of Moscow
Iulia Nitescu (University of Bucharest)

November 16
Reinterpreting Russian Orthodox Canons Against Homosexuality
Nicholas Mayhew (University of Oxford)

November 23
Ascending to the Divine Scriptorium (The Concept of Heavenly Writings in the Slavonic Apocalypse of Enoch)
Florentina Badalanova-Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute)

November 30
The image of an Arab woman in medieval Rus literature (11th–16th century)
Zofia Brzozowska (The University of Łódz)