The Byzness, 15th May 2024
Oxford University Byzantine Society
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THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY
The Byzness, 15th May 2024
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1. NEWS AND EVENTS
2. CALLS FOR PAPERS
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JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
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1. NEWS AND EVENTS
The Byzantine-Islamic Frontier in Cappadocia and Cilicia, 640-750: Strategy, Warfare, and Socio-Economic trends
On Thursday, 16 May at 4.45 p.m. (Warsaw time), at Ewa Wipszycka Warsaw Late Antique Seminar, Alexander Sarantis (Leibniz Zentrum für Archäologie, Mainz) will present a paper 'The Byzantine-Islamic Frontier in Cappadocia and Cilicia, 640-750: Strategy, Warfare, and Socio-Economic Trends'.
We are meeting in the usual place: Room 203 at the Faculty of Law and Administration (UW main campus), but Zoom participation will be possible at this link.
Abstract:
Historians have long agreed that the survival of the Byzantine empire in the face of the threat posed by the Early Islamic Caliphate from the 7th c. rested on the nature of the Anatolian peninsula and Byzantine military strategy in the region. This contributed to the inability of the Arabs to conquer the empire despite attacking it regularly across the 7th to 10th c. However, there has been considerable debate over the nature of this strategy, and of the Cappadocian and Cilician frontier between the Byzantine and Islamic empires. Was the frontier centrally controlled and heavily fortified and defended, was it a depopulated no-man’s land or buffer zone, or was it a peripheral region whose populations were semi-independent and had more in common with their neighbours in the Islamic empire? Were Arab incursions major long-lasting centrally-planned military expeditions seeking to conquer territory, or transitory cross frontier plundering raids by local warlords? Did these incursions shatter societies and economies in the frontier region, creating swathes of inhabited territory, or did local communities find ways of adapting to and in some cases profiting from the Arab threat? This paper will consider these issues, arguing that the situation varied diachronically, the empire wielding far less central control over the region in the late 7th to early 8th centuries compared with the Middle Byzantine period, from the late 8th to 10th c.
The Globalization of Baghdad, 762-1000 CE
The Emmy Noether research group “Religious Conflict and Mobility, 700-900” together with the Department of Oriental and Islamic Studies cordially invites you to the next lecture in the Tübingen Byzantine and Near Eastern Seminar Series:
The Globablization of Baghdad, 762-1000 CE
Hugh Kennedy
Professor of Arabic, SOAS, London
Thursday, May 16, 2024, 2:15 p.m.
Münzgasse 11, Room 101
The lecture is hybrid. For online (Zoom) registration, please contact maren....@student.uni-tuebingen.de
More at https://uni-tuebingen.de/en/201982.
Animals in Anatolian and Turkish History
Conference, May 16—17, 2024
Co-organized by: Penn State University's Department of History Koç University's Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations
The modern industrial age has relegated most animals to the periphery of the daily human experience, confining them within farms, zoos, and protected areas. But for most of human history, animals were everywhere—both in the city and in the countryside. Animals, moreover, mattered far more than they do in today's industrial economy. They performed vital roles as modes of transportation, as sources of food and fibers, as commodities, and as status and cultural symbols. Human history, in short, cannot be adequately understood without paying attention to animals.
The Department of History at Penn State and the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) at Koç University are happy to announce a conference exploring the role of animals in Anatolian and Turkish history. The conference's goal is to explore how animals shaped the human experience in Anatolia and Turkey over time, and how Anatolian and Turkish societies (in turn) have altered the past and present of different animal groups. The conference will be bilingual, in Turkish and English, and there will be a live English-Turkish and Turkish-English translation.
For more information, please visit the conference website.
2. CALLS FOR PAPERS
Hungarian Historical Review
The Hungarian Historical Review (https://www.jstor.org/journal/hunghistrevi; www.hunghist.org) invites submissions for its second issue in 2025, the theme of which will be:
'Coherence of Translation Programs and the Contexts of Translation Movements, ca. 500–1700 AD'
The deadline for the submission of abstracts: June 15, 2024.
The deadline for the accepted papers: December 15, 2024.
This Special Issue aims to explore the complex historical, literary, and material backgrounds that are conducive to producing translations from any source language (Greek, Arabic, Armenian, Syriac, Hebrew, etc.) into Latin and from Latin into the vernaculars or local dialects from Late Antiquity until the end of the Renaissance period. The special issue investigates triggers and factors that helped produce Latin translations and eased the reception of Latin texts by non-Latin-using audiences. The variety of source and target languages creates a comparative framework that enriches our understanding of complex translating processes as historical phenomena.
3. JOBS AND SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
Royal Numismatic Society 'Parkes Weber Prize'
A prize awarded for an original essay of not more than 5,000 words on any subject relating to coins, medals, medallions, tokens or paper money. Competitors should choose their own subject, but may seek guidance if they wish. The value of the prize is currently £150.
Deadline: 31 December.
Eligibility: Competitors may be of any nationality, but must be under the age of thirty on the final day of entry, 31 December.
More information: https://numismatics.org.uk/honours-and-awards/the-parkes-weber-prize/.
Barclay Head Prize for Ancient Numismatics (for Oxford Students)
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Alexander Sherborne
DPhil Candidate, Faculty of History
President, Oxford University Byzantine Society
http://oxfordbyzantinesociety.wordpress.com