Michaelmas Week 1 Oxford Listings (12-18 October)

[Oxford University Byzantine Society]

Dear members of the OUBS,

Welcome (back) to a new year! Below are our listings for the first week of Michaelmas Term; you can refer to the attached document for abstracts and the full term listings. If you would like to add any events to the listings, please email us with details.

Monday

13/10/25, 14:00 - Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, OX1 2LJ
Course: Introduction to Arabic Palaeography - Egypt under the Tulunids and the Ikhshidids

13/10/25, 17:00 - Wharton Room, All Souls College, OX1 4AL; for Teams access join group “Medieval History Research Seminar” (team code rmppucs)
Medieval History Seminar - James Miller (Christ Church): ‘Imagining Monastic Perfection: Benedict, Fleury, and Beyond in the Central Middle Ages’

13/10/25, 17:30 - Priory House, Christ Church, OX1 1DP
Patristics Research Seminar – Welcome drinks

Tuesday

14/10/25, 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) - Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (Cambridge): ‘Counting Pompeian houses: what number crunching can’t tell you’

14/10/25, 17:00 - Wellbeloved Room, Harris Manchester College, OX1 3TD
Medieval Church and Culture Seminar - Oxford Medieval Studies Social!

14/10/25, 17:15 - Shulman Auditorium, Queen’s College, OX1 4AW
James Ford Special Lecture - Francesca Tinti (University of the Basque Country): ‘Long-distance Travel from Early Medieval Britain’

Wednesday

15/10/25, 09:00 - The Memorial Room, Queen’s College, OX1 4AW
Oxford Centre for Early Medieval Britain and Ireland - Early Medieval ‘Global Britain’: A Workshop

15/10/25, 12:15 - Online
Syriac Lunch Seminar - Salam Rassi: ‘Challenges of Editing and Translating Ps. Aristotle’s Epistle on the Craft’

15/10/25, 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 - Ine Jacobs (Oxford): ‘Worshipping the Mother Goddess: An Underground Cult Complex in Late Antique Aphrodisias’

15/10/25, 18:00 - The White Rabbit, 21 Friars Entry, OX1 2BY
Oxford University Numismatic Society - OUNS Social

 

Thursday

16/10/25, 16:00 - Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College, OX1 AJF
Late Roman Seminar - Kate Cooper (Royal Holloway): ‘The Winner Takes It All? Women in the Revolts of Firmus and Gildo’

Friday

17/10/25, 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 Moschos's Spiritual Meadow.
To sign up and receive the work materials, email: marina....@classics.ox.ac.uk

17/10/25, 14:00 - Shared Spaces Room 10.303, Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities, OX2 6AH
Introduction to Coptic Linguistics Seminar

All best,

Michael

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Michael Hughes

MPhil in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies

Treasurer, Oxford University Byzantine Society

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