OxByzList: Trinity Week 8 Oxford Listings, 14-20 June
Oxford University Byzantine Society
Monday
15/06/2026, 16:30 - Priory House, Christ Church, St Aldate’s, OX1 1DP
Patristics Research Seminar - End of year garden party
15/06/2026, 17:00 - Wharton Room, All Souls College, High St, OX1 4AL; for Teams access join group “Medieval History Research Seminar” (team code rmppucs)
Medieval History Research Seminar - Serena Ferente (University of Amsterdam): Girls in the Global Middle Ages: Three Case-studies from the 13th to the 15th Centuries
Tuesday
16/06/2026, 17:15 - Memorial Room, Queen’s College, High Street, OX1 4AW
Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures - International Workshop: Forgotten Libraries
For more information: clemen...@queens.ox.ac.uk. or shaahin...@queens.ox.ac.uk.
16/06/2026, 13:00 - First Floor Seminar Room, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, OX1 3LU
Byzantine Epistles and Prosopography: Mapping the Lost Byzantine Generations of the Thirteenth Century
The fragmentation of Byzantium into a multitude of states from 1204 and until the Palaiologan reconquest of 1261 represents a terra incognita for current prosopographies of Byzantium. Outside of the chronological coverage of both the Prosopography of the Byzantine World (PBW) and the Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit (PLP) research initiatives, these two/three generations of Byzantine society are not detailed in any currently published database.
The information to connect the two established research tools lies in the vast and often overlooked corpora of some 500 letters produced in the thirteenth-century Balkans. These texts detail how peoples navigated a liminal life between the Byzantine successor-states, Latin Crusaders, and Slavonic-speaking powers. Often demonstrating the survival or reconstitution of imperial institutions and offices beyond the collapse of central authority, this seminar series is designed as a means to read these letters. The focus will be on identifying the individuals either written to or described, and placing them within a chronological and geographical window.
With the aid of digital mapping and database management, these individuals can be brought to light and contextualised and a black hole of digital humanities in Byzantium slowly filled. We will be working initially on the dossier of Demetrios Chomatenos, Archbishop of Ohrid (1216–1236), foremost legal mind of his day.
All welcome. Interested participants should contact Nathan Websdale at nathan....@history.ox.ac.uk.
16/06/2026, 14:00 - Catherine Lewis Lecture Theatre, Clarendon Institute, Walton Street Oxford, OX1 2HG
Seminar on Jewish History and Literature - Judith Göppinger (University of Würzburg): "Why Deeds Matter Most - Exempla in Flavius Josephus' Antiquitates Iudaicae"
In order to participate in this lecture via Zoom, please register at this link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/emsTvnExR_mYb_yueaRqbw
16/06/2026, 17:00 - Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - The Rt Hon. Lady Simler: Sultan Azlan Shah Lecture, Title to be Confirmed
Wednesday
17/06/2026, 17:15 - Memorial Room, Queen’s College, High Street, OX1 4AW
Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures - International Workshop: Forgotten Libraries
For more information: clemen...@queens.ox.ac.uk. or shaahin...@queens.ox.ac.uk.
17/06/2026, 15:15 - Rector’s Drawing Room, Exeter College, Turl Street, OX1 3DP
Byzantine Text Seminar - Stratis Papaioannou (Oxford): Readings from a variety of genres and texts (4th-15th c.)
For info, contact: stratis.p...@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk.
17/06/2026, 17:00 - Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’, OX1 3LU
Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar - Tassos Papacostas (London): The Cult of Saint Mamas between Cyprus and Venice in the 16th Century: A Patron Saint of Shepherds Promoted by the Urban Elite
Online Teams link here.
17/06/2026, 17:00 - Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Marston Road OX3 0EE
Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies - Afifi Al-Akiti (Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies): The Imago Dei and Human Dignity in Islamic Tradition
Thursday
18/06/2026, 17:00 - Dorfman Centre, St Peter’s College, New Inn Hall Street, OX1 2DL
After Roman and Further East Seminar - Teresa Bernheimer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich/ New College): Tombstones and the Early History of Islam
18/06/2026, 17:15 - Memorial Room, Queen’s College, High Street, OX1 4AW
Global Manuscript and Text Cultures Seminar - Jessica Rahardjo (Khalili Research Centre, Oxford): A Critical Edition and Translation of Ṣirāṭ al-Mustaqīm: a 17thc Malay Shāfi’ī Legal Text;
Shane Patrick (Wolfson, Oxford): The Debate of Abu Qurrah and its Manuscript Circulation
18/06/2026, 17:15 - KRC Lecture Room, Khalili Research Centre, 3 St John St, OX1 2LJ
Khalili Research Seminar - Muzaffer Özgüleş (Barakat Trust Postdoctoral Fellow, KRC): Historicising and Visualising the Evolution of Ottoman Architecture in Istanbul from the Mid-fifteenth to the Early Twentieth Century
In week 9:
Wednesday
24/06/2026 & 25/06/2026 - Memorial Room, Queen’s College, High Street, OX1 4AW
Centre for Manuscript and Text Cultures - International Conference: The Text and Thought of Early Chinese Manuscripts: Tsinghua Bamboo Slips and Beyond
/出土简帛的文本与思想国际学术研讨会：清华简及其延伸 in conjunction with Tsinghua University, Beijing.
Held at the China Centre, St Hugh’s College, Oxford. For more information: dirk....@queens.ox.ac.uk
Papers in English (24th), in Chinese (25th).
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Nidanu O'Shea
DPhil in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Secretary, Oxford University Byzantine Society
http://oxfordbyzantinesociety.wordpress.com