OxByzList: Michaelmas Week 4 Oxford Listings, 2 - 8 November
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Week 4
Monday
3/11/25, 14:00 - Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, OX1 2LJ
Course: Introduction to Arabic Palaeography - The early Fatimid period
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.
3/11/25, 15:00 - Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology, 36 Beaumont St, OX1 2PG
Medieval Archaeology Seminar - Wyatt Wilcox: ‘Isolated Barrows in Early Medieval England: A Spatial Analysis’
3/11/25, 16:30 - Robert Beddard Room, Oriel, OX1 4EW
Patristics Research Seminar - Katie Painter (Oxford): ‘Ethopoeia in Saint Ephrem the Syrian’s Madrashē’
3/11/25, 17:00 - Wharton Room, All Souls College, OX1 4AL; for Teams access join group “Medieval History Research Seminar” (team code rmppucs)
Medieval History Seminar - Anna Chrysostomides (Queen Mary, University of London): ‘Non-Binary Gender in Abbasid Baghdad: Reality vs. Fiction’
Tuesday
4/11/25, 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) - Volker Heuchert (Oxford): ‘The RPC Online and EpiDoc Project: Using AI to expand, translate and encode 150,000 coins inscriptions’
4/11/25, 17:00 - Wellbeloved Room, Harris Manchester College, OX1 3TD
Medieval Church and Culture Seminar - Clare Whitton (Blackfriars): ‘Resurrecting a Patron Saint: The Feast of San Gennaro in 14th century Naples’
Wednesday
5/11/25, 12:15 - Lecture Room, Campion Hall, OX1 1QS
Syriac Lunch Seminar - Carlo Emilio Biuzzi: ‘Methodological Inquiry into Syriac Social History: The Case Study of Syriac Legal Literature’
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.
5/11/25, 12:30 - Balliol College, OX1 3BJ
Oxford Centre for Early Medieval Britain and Ireland - Connecting Catch-up Lunch
A chance to meet new students, catch-up with the interdisciplinary community of early medievalists in Oxford, and outline our current research projects over a free buffet lunch. More information to follow
5/11/25, 16:00 - Outreach Room, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, OX1 3LU; Join online via Teams, link here
Oxford University Numismatic Society Lecture - Connor Beattie (Pharos Foundation): ‘Magna Mater in the Second Punic War: A Reflection on RRC 39/5’
5/11/25, 17:00 - Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, OX1 3LU
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar - Erin Thomas Dailey (Leicester): ‘Why Did the Byzantine Empire Forbid Slave-Owners from Making Eunuchs of their Slaves? Castration, Masculinity, and Identity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages’
Thursday
6/11/25, 14:00 - Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Institute, Walton St, OX1 2HG
Reading Group: Jewish Magical Texts from Antiquity and the Cairo Genizah - Metal Amulets
For inquiries, please contact Prof. Meron Piotrkowski: meron.pi...@ames.ox.ac.uk
6/11/25, 15:00 - Online via Zoom; link here.
Frankfurt-Leuven project “Commentary on John of Ephesus’s Ecclesiastical History” - Christine Shepardson (UT, Knoxville): “A Memory of Violence: John of Ephesus, Guide to an Apocalypse”.
6/11/25, 15:45 - Online via Zoom; link here.
Warsaw Late Antique Seminar - David Addison (University of Liverpool): ‘Extraneae Feminae: Women, the Clerical Household, and the Legacy of Nicaea’
6/11/25, 16:00 - Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College, OX1 AJF
Late Roman Seminar - Lea Niccolai (Cambridge): ‘Divine Unknowns and the Politics of Ignorance in the Fourth-century Greek East’
6/11/25, 16:00 - Somerville College, OX2 6HD (Meet in lodge)
Medieval Women’s Writing Research Seminar - Chronicling the Self (Including extracts from the memoirs of Lady Nijo and Leonor López de Córdoba)
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!
6/11/25, 16:00 - All Soul’s Old Library, High St, OX1 4AL
Oxford Interfaith Forum - The 65th Anniversary of the Recovery of the Iconic Interculturalist Poet Shota Rustaveli’s Medieval Fresco in the Jerusalem Monastery
At the special multilingual event, Oxford's linguists and historians will present Rustaveli's epic poem in twelve languages. All welcome but registration required: https://oxfordinterfaithforum.org/blog/the-65th-anniversary-of-the-recovery-of-the-iconic-interculturalist-poet-shota-rustavelis-medieval-fresco/
6/11/25, 17:00 - Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, OX1 2LJ
Medieval Visual Culture Seminar - Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A (London)), Ashley Coutu (Pitt Rivers Museum): New directions in the study of ivories from the Islamic world: A talk and handling session
Co-sponsored with the Khalili Research Centre and exceptionally held at the Khalili Research Centre
Friday
7/11/25, 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
7/11/25, 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.
Best,
Nidanu
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Nidanu O'Shea
DPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Secretary, Oxford University Byzantine Society
http://oxfordbyzantinesociety.wordpress.com