Oxford Listings Week 8 (June 16-22)

[Oxford University Byzantine Society]

Dear members of the OUBS,

Congratulations on making it through Trinity, and this academic year! We are especially proud of our LABS masters and DPhil students who are finishing, and wish everyone luck on their remaining exams and submissions. Below are the final listings for the term; see the attached document for abstracts and complete details.

Monday:

16.06.25, 9:00 am, Seminar Room, Radcliffe Humanities, and online; for online registration, see this link:

TORCH Network: Poetry in the Medieval World Workshop: Poetry, Power, Literacy, and the Emergence of Vernacular Literatures

 

16.06.25, 2.30 pm, Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel College:

Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Seminar: Speaker’s Lectures Series: Judith H. Newman (Toronto): ‘The Latter Days’

 

16.06.25, 5.00 pm, Old Library, 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: Stuart Airlie (Glasgow): ‘Returns of the Repressed: Aby Warburg's cultural history of Percy Ernst Schramm’

Note the change in venue

 

Tuesday:

17.06.25, 12.00 pm, Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel College:

Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Seminar: Speaker’s Lectures Series: Judith H. Newman (Toronto) and Hindy Najman (University of Oxford, Oriel College): ‘The Future of Prayer and Hermeneutics in Biblical Studies’

 

17.06.25, 2.30 pm, The Song School (please note there is no lift access), and online; for registration, see this link:

CMCS Oxford Summer Term Series: Mohammed Gamal Abdelnour (Research Fellow, CMCS Oxford): ‘A Muslim scholar studies a New Testament Gospel: challenges and opportunities’

 

Wednesday:

18.06.25, 5.00 pm, Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre; to join online, see this link:

Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar & OCBR Special Lecture: Marc Lauxtermann (University of Oxford, Exeter College): ‘The Emergence of Fiction: Byzantium and the East’

 

18.06.25, 5.00 pm, Lower Lecture Room, Lincoln College:

Medieval Women’s Writing Research Group: Letters of Friendship and Gratitude

 

Thursday:

19.06.25, 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, p. 4 (pp. 75b – 79a)

 

19.06.25, 5.00 pm, Lecture Room 6, New College:

After Rome and Further East Seminar: Agata Deptuła (Warsaw): ‘“Chanting and Singing a Hymn of Praise”: Early Greek Hymnography in Medieval Nubia’

 

Friday:

20.06.25, 2.00 pm, Room 207, Clarendon Institut:

Coptic Reading Class on Magical Papyri (Papyri Copticae Magicae, Vol. 1)

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

Best wishes,

Sophia Miller

MPhil in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies

Secretary, Oxford University Byzantine Society

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