Michaelmas Week 2 Oxford Listings (19-25 October)
Oxford University Byzantine Society
Week 2
Monday
20/10/25, 14:00 - Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, OX1
2LJ
Course: Introduction to Arabic Palaeography - Written culture in early
Islamic Ifrīqiya
20/10/25, 15:00 - Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology, 36
Beaumont St, OX1 2PG
Medieval Archaeology Seminar - Eleanor Standley: ‘Re-excavating an
11th-century Yaozhou Ware Sherd in the Ashmolean Museum: A Journey from China
to al-Fustat to North Oxfordshire’
20/10/25, 17:00 - Wharton Room, All Souls College, OX1 4AL;
for Teams access join group “Medieval History Research Seminar” (team code
rmppucs)
Medieval History Seminar - Peter Jones (King’s College, Cambridge): ‘Event,
Story and Image in the Writings of John Arderne (1307- c.1380), English
Surgeon’
Tuesday
21/10/25, 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) - Luis
Rocha (Binghamton): ‘From cybernetics to the global brain: the challenge of
symbolic control in art and creativity’
Maximillian Schich (Tallinn): ‘Should we comprehend visual family resemblance
with bare eyes, plain algorithms, or fancy AIs?’
21/10/25, 17:00 - Wellbeloved Room, Harris Manchester
College, OX1 3TD
Medieval Church and Culture Seminar - John Merrington (All Souls): ‘Reading
the Five Thousand: gender, the body and the interpretation of John 6 in
medieval Europe’
Wednesday
22/10/25, 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 - Johannes Pahlitzsch (Mainz): ‘Concepts
of Space and Orthodoxy beyond Byzantium’
22/10/25, 18:00 - Online via Teams, link
here
Oxford University Numismatic Society Lecture - Peter van Alfen (American
Numismatic Society): ‘Transitional Troubles? From Electrum to Silver Coinage in
Archaic Asia Minor’
Thursday
23/10/25, 14:00 - Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre, Clarendon
Institute, Waltonst, OX1 2HG
Reading Group: Jewish Magical Texts from Antiquity and the Cairo Genizah - Magical
Papyri
23/10/25, 16:00 - Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College, OX1
AJF
Late Roman Seminar - Peter Van Nuffelen (Ghent): ‘Conceptions of Justice in
the Age of Justinian’
23/10/25, 16:00 - Somerville College, OX2 6HD (Meet in
lodge)
Medieval Women’s Writing Research Seminar - Authorising the Text (Including
extracts from the prose works of Teresa de Cartagena and Anna Komnene)
Friday
24/10/25, 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 Moshos's Spiritual Meadow.
24/10/25, 14:00 - Shared Spaces Room 10.303, Schwarzman
Centre for the Humanities, OX2 6AH
Introduction to Coptic Linguistics Seminar
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Nidanu O'Shea
DPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Secretary, Oxford University Byzantine Society