Michaelmas Week 3 Oxford Listings, 26 October - 1 November

[Oxford University Byzantine Society]

Dear OUBS members,

We hope you're all well and in the swing of things. Here are the listings for week 3 - see the attached document for the full listings and abstracts.

Week 3

Monday

27/10/25, 14:00 - Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, OX1 2LJ
Course: Introduction to Arabic Palaeography - The Christians of al-Andalus and ‘Mozarabic’ scripts

27/10/25, 16:30 - Robert Beddard Room, Oriel, OX1 4EW
Patristics Research Seminar - Sea Yun Joung (Cambridge): ‘The Imagination in Synesius of Cyrene’s Epistolography’

27/10/25, 17:00 - Wharton Room, All Souls College, OX1 4AL; for Teams access join group “Medieval History Research Seminar” (team code rmppucs)
Medieval History Seminar - Lucy Donkin (University of Bristol): ‘Ex urbe et ab Hierosolomis: The Materiality and Portability of Place in Pre-Reformation Europe’ 

Tuesday

28/10/25, 16:00 - Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, OX1 3LU
Ancient History Sub-Faculty Seminar (Quo Vadis: Classics Meets AI) - Charlotte Tupman (Exeter): ‘AI and its implications for the future of epigraphy’
Mark McKerracher (Oxford): ‘Classifying Portable Antiquities with Artificial Intelligence’

28/10/25, 17:00 - Wellbeloved Room, Harris Manchester College, OX1 3TD
Medieval Church and Culture Seminar - Susanna Heywood (KCL): ‘A Practical Guide to Kingship?: the virtue of prudence in Giles of Rome's De Regimine Principum’

Wednesday

29/10/25, 12:15 - Lecture Room, Campion Hall, OX1 1QS
Syriac Lunch Seminar - Ya'el Nu'emah-Kremer: ‘The Cult of Shmuni In and Out of Church: Liturgy, Domestic Piety, and Memoryscapes’

29/10/25, 17:00 - Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, OX1 3LU; Join online via Teams, link here
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar - Stratis Papaioannou (Athens): ‘The Synaxarion of Constantinople as Historiography’

Thursday

30/10/25, 16:00 - Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College, OX1 AJF
Late Roman Seminar - Peter Gemeinhardt (Göttingen): ‘Life-Long Learning in Late Antique Christianity. A Praxeological Approach’

30/10/25, 17:00 - Online via Zoom; register here
All Souls Seminars in Medieval and Renaissance Music - Anne Walters Robertson (University of Chicago): ‘A cycle of masses for all seasons in the Burgundian court’

30/10/25, 17:00 - Mary Sunley Lecture Theatre, St Catherine’s College, OX1 3UJ
Medieval Visual Culture Seminar - Hannele Hellerstedt (Oxford): ‘Seeing Double: Visualising La Cité des dames and La Cité de Dieu’

30/10/25, 17:15 - Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, OX1 2LJ
Khalili Research Centre Book Launch - Jochen Sokoly (VCUarts Qatar): ‘Clothing the Caliphate: cultures of dress of the early Islamic period’

Friday

31/10/25, 09:30 - Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles, OX1 3LU
Byzantine Text Seminar - Dr Bazzani: The seminar sessions will focus on the text of John Moschos's Spiritual Meadow.

31/10/25, 14:00 - Shared Spaces Room 10.303, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, OX2 6AH Introduction to Coptic Linguistics Seminar

As always, let us know if there are any events you want to share with the OUBS community.

Best,

Nidanu

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Nidanu O'Shea

DPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Secretary, Oxford University Byzantine Society

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