Oxford Listings Week 7 (June 9-15)
Oxford University Byzantine Society
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Seminar: Speaker’s Lectures Series: Judith H. Newman (Toronto): ‘Birth and Re-Creations’
09.06.25, 5.00 pm, Wharton Room, All Souls College; to join online, log in to Teams with your .ox.ac.uk account and joining the group “Medieval History Research Seminar” (team code rmppucs):
Medieval History Seminar: Andrew Dunning (Bodleian Library): ‘The Cult of Saint Frideswide in Medieval Oxford’
Tuesday:
10.06.25, 2.30 pm, online; for registration, see this link:
CMCS Oxford Summer Term Series: Joy Hadden (Belfast Theological School): ‘Seeking truth and peace? Theological assumptions and developing constructive Muslim-Christian conversations’
Wednesday:
11.06.25, 12.15 pm, Lecture Room, Campion Hall:
Oxford Syriac Lunch Seminar: Karolina Tomczyszyn (KU Leuven): A Syriac Community of Letters: Scholarly Correspondence and the Institutionalisation of the Syriac Orthodox Church (7th-8th centuries)’
Those interested in attending are kindly asked to contact Katherine Painter (katherin...@bfriars.ox.ac.uk) by the Sunday prior to the date(s) they wish to attend so that complementary lunch can be provided.
11.06.25, 2.00 pm, Horton Room, Weston Library:
Workshop - Science of the Stars: an introduction to medieval astronomical and astrological manuscripts and texts: Laure Miolo (University of Oxford) & Alexandre Tur (Bibliothèque Nationale de France): ‘Session 6: Horoscope: dating and interpretating medieval horoscopes’
11.06.25, 5.00 pm, Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre; to join online, see this link:
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar: John-Francis Martin (University of Oxford, Oriel College) ‘“The Last Byzantine Controversy” — Politics, Rhetoric, and Religion from the Council of Ferrara-Florence to the Fall of Constantinople’
11.06.25, 5.00 pm, Oakeshott Room, Lincoln College:
June and Simon Li Lecture in the History of Art: Aden Kumler (University of Basel): ‘Vera Mensura: Dimensional Realism in Medieval Manuscripts’
11.06.25, 5.00 pm, Lower Lecture Room, Lincoln College:
Medieval Women’s Writing Research Group: Kat Smith (University of Oxford): ‘The Virgin Mary in Medieval and Early Modern Women’s Writing’
11.06.25, 5.00 pm, Rewley House, and online; for registration, see this link:
Medieval Society and Landscape: Simon Townley (Victoria County History of Oxfordshire): ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once: Exploring Medieval Place and Society through Local History’
Thursday:
12.06.25, 10.00 am, Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel College:
Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Seminar: Speaker’s Lectures Series: Judith H. Newman (Toronto): ‘Transformational Encounters’
12.06.25, 12.30 pm, 2nd Floor Small Meeting Room, Gibson Building:
Lunchtime Reading Group: ʿAmmār al-Baṣrī’s Kitāb al-burhān (The Book of Proof): ithbāt al-tajassud, pt. 3 (pp. 71b – 75a)
12.05.25, 1.00 pm, Room 207, Clarendon Institute, and online; for registration, see this link:
Reading Jews in Late Antiquity Guest Lecture: Shlomi Efrati (University of Münster): ‘"And Rested the Seventh Day": Sabbath’s Rest in Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman Exegesis and Polemics’
12.05.25, 4.00 pm, HB Allen Lecture Theatre, Keble College; for registration, see this link:
The Meyerstein Lecture in Archaeology 2025: Naomi Sykes (University of Exeter): ‘Dead Important: Addressing the Archaeological Curation Crisis’
12.06.25, 5.00 pm, Lecture Room 6, New College:
After Rome and Further East Seminar: Khodadad Rezakhani (Leiden): ‘The Sasanian Grand Strategy: State, Economy and War in the Sixth and Seventh Century West Asia’
12.06.25, 5.00 pm, online; for registration, see this link:
Eastern Christianity in Interfaith Contexts: George A. Kiraz (Institute for Advanced Study): ‘The Peshitta and the Making of the Antioch Bible’
Friday:
13.06.25, 9.00 am, Levett Room, Wolfson College:
Workshop: First Bahari Workshop for Early Career Scholars: Professionals of Writing in Late Antiquity
See this link for program.
13.06.25, 12.00 pm, First Floor Seminar Room, Ioannou Centre:
Storytelling: East and West: Marc Lauxtermann (University of Oxford): ‘‘The long version of Stephanites and Ichnelates: Arabic, Greek, and Latin in Norman Sicily’
13.06.25, 2.00 pm, Room 207, Clarendon Institute:
Coptic Reading Class on Magical Papyri (Papyri Copticae Magicae, Vol. 1)
13.06.25, 5.00 pm, Lower Lecture Room, Lincoln College:
Medieval Women’s Writing Research Group: Santhia Velasco Kittlaus & Marlene Schilling (University of Oxford): ‘Working with Modern Theory on Medieval Women’s Writing’
Best wishes,
Sophia Miller
MPhil in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
Secretary, Oxford University Byzantine Society
http://oxfordbyzantinesociety.wordpress.com