OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
What did it mean to read ‘in order’ in the Roman Mediterranean? Readers in the early centuries CE used a variety of conceptual strategies (e.g., pedagogy, sortilege, lectionaries) and material technologies (e.g., sectioning, tables of contents, cross-references) to orient encounters with written texts. These practices invite us to interrogate broader ideas of ‘order’—of language, of time, of cosmos, of society—that shaped textuality and knowledge in Mediterranean antiquity. This workshop brings together scholars of classics, early Judaism, and early Christianity. To facilitate a rich discussion, written materials will be precirculated to registered participants.