OxByzList: Michaelmas Week 7 Oxford Listings (23-29 November)

[Oxford University Byzantine Society]

Dear all,

We hope you're all doing well! See below for the listings for week 7.

Week 7

Monday

24/11/25, 14:00 - Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, OX1 2LJ
Course: Introduction to Arabic Palaeography - The Ayyubids and the Mamluks
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.

24/11/25, 16:30 - Robert Beddard Room, Oriel, OX1 4EW
Patristics Research Seminar - Ashby Neterer (Oxford): ‘Typologies of Mary in the Christus Patiens of (Pseudo?)-Gregory’

Tuesday

25/11/25, 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) - Barbara McGillivray (King’s College London), ‘AI for Classics: Understanding semantic change across centuries’
Barbara Graziosi (Princeton), 'A Humanistic Approach to Artificial Intelligence'

25/11/25, 17:00 - Wellbeloved Room, Harris Manchester College, OX1 3TD
Medieval Church and Culture Seminar - Mark Vessey (UBC): ‘Some Problems in the Earliest History of the Latin Life of Antony’

Wednesday

26/11/25 - Time and place to be confirmed
Oxford Centre for Early Medieval Britain and Ireland - Skills Sharing: Basic Map-Making
An informal workshop led by Wyatt Wilcox for those who would like to learn how to make maps for use in their work, or improve their skills in doing so. Limited places; booking required.

26/11/25, 12:15 - Lecture Room, Campion Hall, OX1 1QS
Syriac Lunch Seminar - Abigail Pearson: ‘The Revelation of Ezra Prognostic in Syriac: a Translation From Three Newly Identified Fragments’
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.

26/11/25, 16:00 - Online via Teams, link here
Oxford University Numismatic Society - Cross-Institution Graduate Colloquium. Titles TBC

26/11/25, 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 - Thomas Laver (Cambridge) ‘Estates, Economy, and “Holy Men” in Late Antique Egyptian Monasteries’

Thursday

13/11/25, 13:15 - Online via Zoom; For registration please contact maren....@student.uni-tuebingen.de.
Tübingen Byzantine and Near Eastern Seminar - Danii Pleshak (Tübingen): ‘Letters of Exile: Patriarch Photius and his Correspondence’

27/11/25, 16:00 - Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College, OX1 AJF
Late Roman Seminar - Anthony Comfort (Independent Researcher): ‘Crossing the Tigris in (Late?) Antiquity’

Friday

28/11/25, 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

28/11/25, 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.

28/11/25, 17:00 - Memorial Room, Queen’s College, OX1 4AW
Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures - Roberta Mazza (Bologna): ‘Beyond Provenance: publishing papyri and other manuscripts from Egypt in 2025’
A critical reflection on the history of papyrology and papyrus collecting, discussing problems and issues in current policies and practices.
Roberta Mazza is a papyrologist based in the Department of Cultural Heritage, Bologna, where she works on the ethics of the illegal trade in papyri and other cultural artefacts. Her book, Stolen Fragments; Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts (Stanford, 2024), wona silver medal in the 2025 Independent Publisher Book Awards.

As always, please let us know if you have any events you'd like to share with the OUBS community.

Kind regards,

Nidanu

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Nidanu O'Shea

DPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies

Secretary, Oxford University Byzantine Society

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