OxByzList: Michaelmas Week 6 Oxford Listings (16-22 November)
Oxford University Byzantine Society
Week 6
Monday
17/11/25, 14:00 - Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, OX1 2LJ
Course: Introduction to Arabic Palaeography - Arabic documents from Norman Sicily
Eight weekly reading and discussion sessions (3 hours each) on Islamic manuscripts, calligraphy and the scribal traditions of the Arabic-speaking Mediterranean (7th-14th centuries).
These sessions are aimed at students and researches affiliated with the Faculties of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Medieval and Modern Languages, Theology and Religion, Classics, and History. A basic grounding in classical Arabic is required.
17/11/25, 15:00 - Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont St, OX1 2PG
Medieval Archaeology Seminar - Roberta Gilchrist: ‘The Medieval Ritual Landscape: persistence and place-making in later medieval England’
17/11/25, 16:30 - Robert Beddard Room, Oriel, OX1 4EW
Patristics Research Seminar - Alexander Bailey, CO (Oxford): Ad altare: Augustine’s Confessions and the imitation of Monnica
17/11/25, 17:00 - Wharton Room, All Souls College, OX1 4AL; for Teams access join group “Medieval History Research Seminar” (team code rmppucs)
Medieval History Seminar - Angus Russell (King’s College, Cambridge): ‘Between Truth and Justice: Towards an Intellectual History of Post-Mongol Rus’
Tuesday
18/11/25, 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) - Federica Nicolardi (Napoli): ‘Rediscovering an Ancient Library: Virtual Unwrapping of the Herculaneum Papyri’
Tristan Vigliano (Aix-Marseille): ‘ATALAT, an experiment in machine translation applied to (very) Late Latin texts’
18/11/25, 17:00 - Wellbeloved Room, Harris Manchester College, OX1 3TD
Medieval Church and Culture Seminar - Alice Rio (All Souls): ‘Gender and the Carolingian Dreamscape’
Wednesday
19/11/25, 12:15 - Lecture Room, Campion Hall, OX1 1QS
Syriac Lunch Seminar - Amin Royatvand: ‘Heavenly Powers and Agency in Late Antique Thought: Narsai and Eznik’
Participation is open to graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from all academic fields and is by invitation. Those interested in attending are kindly asked to contact Katherine Painter (katherin...@theology.ox.ac.uk) by the Sunday prior to the date(s) they wish to attend so that complementary lunch can be provided.
This seminar is made possible by the generous sponsorship of Campion Hall and the Dolabani Fund for Syriac Studies.
19/11/25, 16:00 - Outreach Room, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, OX1 3LU
Oxford University Numismatic Society Lecture - Alison Kidd (British Museum): ‘Subversive communication: architectural simulacra on Roman Provincial Coinage
19/11/25, 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 - Peter Frankopan and Jonathan Shepard: (Oxford) ‘Revisiting the Byzantine Commonwealth: A Discussion’
Thursday
20/11/25, 14:00 - Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Institute, Waltonst, OX1 2HG
Reading Group: Jewish Magical Texts from Antiquity and the Cairo Genizah - Babylonian Magic Bowls
For inquiries, please contact Prof. Meron Piotrkowski: meron.pi...@ames.ox.ac.uk
20/11/25, 15:45 - Online via Zoom; to get a link please send a message to the conveners: Agata Deptuła (agata....@uw.edu.pl) or Robert Wiśniewski (r.wisn...@uw.edu.pl).
Warsaw Late Antique Seminar - Roxanne Bélanger-Sarrazin (Universität Würzburg): ‘Apocrypha, Magic, Liturgy: The Multiple identities of Coptic Prayers in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt’
20/11/25, 16:00 - Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College, OX1 AJF
Late Roman Seminar - Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh): ‘Theodosius I in the Works of Ausonius and Aurelius Victor’
20/11/25, 16:00 - Somerville College, OX2 6HD (Meet in lodge)
Medieval Women’s Writing Research Seminar - Letters and Acts( Including extracts from the letters of Hildegard von Bingen, Catherine of Siena, Violant de Bar and María de Castilla)
We are an informal, friendly reading group, meeting to discuss everything to do with women’s writing in the Middle Ages. We will meet on Thursdays of weeks 2, 4, 6 and 8 at 4- 5pm at Somerville College, meeting at the lodge and walking together to the seminar room. Please email costas....@some.ox.ac.uk if you would like to find out more and/or receive reading materials in advance. All are welcome!
Friday
21/11/25, 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.
To sign up and receive the work materials, email marina....@classics.ox.ac.uk
21/11/25, 14:00 - Shared Spaces Room 10.303, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, OX2 6AH
Introduction to Coptic Linguistics Seminar
No prior knowledge of Coptic is needed but either a linguistics background or some basic Coptic would be an advantage.
As always, if there are any events you would like to share with the OUBS, please get into contact with us.
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Nidanu O'Shea
DPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Secretary, Oxford University Byzantine Society
http://oxfordbyzantinesociety.wordpress.com