Name: David Taylor
The Oriental Institute

Events this person is organising:

Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

A Babylonian Babel: The Sasanians and the Crystallization of Judaism
Date: 8 October 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2018)
Speaker : Shai Secunda (Bard College)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Organisers: Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina (The Oriental Institute), David Taylor (The Oriental Institute), Sergey Minov (History)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Resisting the Empire: Armenian Historiography of the Fifth Century
Date: 15 October 2018, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2018)
Speaker : Dr David Zakarian (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Organisers: Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina (The Oriental Institute), David Taylor (The Oriental Institute), Sergey Minov (History)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 23 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Serial Orthodoxy: State, Faith and Power in the Sasanian Empire
Date: 23 October 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2018)
Speaker : Albert de Jong (Universiteit Leiden)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Organisers: Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina (The Oriental Institute), David Taylor (The Oriental Institute), Sergey Minov (History)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 30 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Babylonian Jews as Sasanian Jews: The Politics of Accommodation
Date: 30 October 2018, 17:00 - 18:00 (Tuesday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Speaker : Simcha Gross (University of California at Irvine)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Organisers: Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina (The Oriental Institute), David Taylor (The Oriental Institute), Sergey Minov (History)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 5 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Sometimes the Empire Strikes Back: The Sasanian Empire and its Religious Communities
Date: 5 November 2018, 17:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Speaker : Touraj Daryaee (University of California at Irvine)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Organisers: Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina (The Oriental Institute), David Taylor (The Oriental Institute), Sergey Minov (History)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 12 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The Sasanian Role in the Mandaean World
Date: 12 November 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Speaker : Charles Häberl (Rutgers University)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Organisers: Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina (The Oriental Institute), David Taylor (The Oriental Institute), Sergey Minov (History)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 19 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Chalcedonians and Severans in the Empire of Khusrau II
Date: 19 November 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Speaker : Phil Booth (University of Oxford)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Organisers: Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina (The Oriental Institute), David Taylor (The Oriental Institute), Sergey Minov (History)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Strategies for Success: Manichaeism under the Early Sasanians
Date: 26 November 2018, 17:00 - 18:30 (Monday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2018)
Speaker : Iris Colditz (Freie Universität Berlin)
Venue: Wolfson College, Linton Road OX2 6UD
Organisers: Yuhan S.-D. Vevaina (The Oriental Institute), David Taylor (The Oriental Institute), Sergey Minov (History)
Hosts: TBA