• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Alexandra Vukovich (Oxford)
• Timing: Tuesdays, 17:00 (UK) via Zoom

Tuesday 7 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - In Search of Harald Hardrada’s treasures
  Dr Fedir Androshchuk (Swedish History Museum/University of Uppsala)

Tuesday 21 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Confused or concise? On the interpretation of the Kniga palomnik by Anthony of Novgorod
  Dr Anna Joureval (Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg)

Tuesday 4 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus
  Dr Sean Griffin (Dartmouth College)

Tuesday 29 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The archaeology of holy war and colonisation in the Baltic
  Dr Aleksander Pluskowski (Reading)

Tuesday 19 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Sermon on Law and Grace: between textual criticism and interpretation
  Prof Giorgio Ziffer (Udine)

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Trans perspectives on medieval and early modern Slavic culture
  Dr Nicholas Mayhew (Stanford)

Tuesday 18 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Oleg the Wise as Saint Demetrios or the problem of the middle link in the oldest Rus'ian chronicle-writing
  Professor Constantin Zuckerman (École Pratique des Hautes Études)

Tuesday 3 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - A Case of Cultural transfer from the Hungarian Gesta Ladislai regis to the Russian tale of the evil Tsar Batu
  Professor Pierre Gonneau (École Pratique des Hautes Études)

Tuesday 28 April 2020 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The First Church of St Sophia in Kyiv
  Dr Vadym Aristov (Institute of Ukrainian History, Kyiv)

Tuesday 5 May 2020 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Was Alexander really from Macedonia? The East Slavic genealogy of Alexander the Great
  Professor Susana Torres Prieto (IE University, Madrid)

Tuesday 12 May 2020 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Medieval Memory Wars in Post-Socialist Russia and Ukraine
  Dr Sean Griffin (Dartmouth College)

Tuesday 19 May 2020 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The Kingdom of a Rus': A New Theoretical Model of Rulership
  Professor Christian Raffensperger (Wittenberg University)

Tuesday 26 May 2020 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Tradition and Creation, or How Did Rus'ian Chroniclers Construct Their World?
  Dr Ines Garcia de la Puente (Boston University)

Tuesday 2 June 2020 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Who Wrote the Povest' vremennykh let?
  Professor Don Ostrowski (Harvard University)

Tuesday 9 June 2020 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Belated Jerusalems: Maksim Grek against Translatio Hierosolymi
  Mr Justin Willson (Princeton University), Mr Ashley Morse (Harvard University)

Tuesday 16 June 2020 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - How and Where the Old Slavic Digenis Akritis Was Made
  Professor Robert Romanchuk (Florida State University)

Tuesday 23 June 2020 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The “grand retinue” in North-Eastern Europe in the 10th-11th centuries
  Professor Petr Stefanovich (Higher School of Economics, Moscow)

Tuesday 3 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Basqaqs in Rus: A Social Strategy of Power
  Adrian Jusupović (The Institute of History, Poland Academy of Sciences)

Tuesday 10 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Role of the Chudi in the Formation of Kievan Rus
  Marika Mägi (Tallin University)

Tuesday 17 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - From strange discovery to happy overture: Russian-English Relations, 1553-1613
  Rima Greenhill (Stanford University)

Tuesday 24 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Сибирские летописи и отражение в них событий XV-XVI вв. (What Siberian Chronicles Tell Us about Events in the 15th-16th c.)
  *Paper in Russian with notes & commentary in English*
  Denis Masliuzhenko (Kurgan State University)

Tuesday 1 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Magic and Empathy: Animals in Muscovite Spells
  *This talk begins at 16:00*
  Valerie Kivelson (University of Michigan)

Tuesday 26 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha (1459-1517). From Bosnian Prince to Ottoman Vizier
  Emir O Filipović (University of Sarajevo)

Tuesday 2 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - О влиянии искусства Казанского ханства на русскую дворцовую культуру 16-17 вв. (The Art of the Khanate of Kazan and Its Influence on Russian Court culture, 16th-17th c.)*
  Guzel’ Valeeva-Suleymanova (Институт истории им. Ш.Марджани Республики Татарстан/The Sh. Marjani Institute of History, Republic of Tatarstan)

Tuesday 16 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Overcoming the Nation(s): Ways of Approaching the Medieval Balkans
  Milena Repajić (University of Belgrade)

Tuesday 23 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - The Early Slavs and Their Ethnogenesis in Soviet and Post-Soviet Archaeology
  Florin Curta (University of Florida)

Tuesday 2 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Religion and Warfare in Pre-Mongol Rus
  Yulia Mikhailova (New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology)

Tuesday 9 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Turnovo – Capital of the Second Bulgarian Tsardom
  Kirił Marinow (University of Łódź)

Tuesday 4 May 2021 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - History as a source of vonflict between nations: recent Macedonian-Bulgarian controversies
  Petar Todorov (Institute of National History, Skopje)

Tuesday 11 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Amalfitans in Byzantium’s cultural and religious life, 10th-13th c.
  Liliana Simeonova (Institute for Balkan Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Science)

Tuesday 18 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - “They sweep down from the mountains to despoil and ravage the land” (Τhe problem of banditry in its medieval Balkan context)
  Panos Sophoulis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Tuesday 25 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Looking at the Bright Side: Some Benefits of the Pomest'e System in 16th c. Muscovy
  Janet Martin (emerita, University of Miami)

Tuesday 1 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Early Modern Plague Writing in the Margins of South Slavic Manuscripts and Books
  Kristina Nikolovska (St Cyril and Methodios University, Skopje)

Tuesday 8 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Rulers and Rulership between Ideal and Reality (East Central Europe, 10th-13th c.)
  Dušan Zupka (Comenius University in Bratislava)

Tuesday 15 June 2021 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - "Between East and West": assumptions & Interpretations concerning Medieval Karelia
  Kati Parppei (University of Eastern Finland)

Tuesday 12 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - When were the relics of St. Clement brought to Kiev and who brought them?
  Oleksiy Tolochko (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine)

Tuesday 19 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - How to deal with Steppe Fauna? Remarks on the Byzantine perception of the nomads and on the Byzantine policy towards them (10th-12th centuries)
  Aleksander Paroń (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences)

Tuesday 26 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Identity and Identification in Late Medieval Western Balkans
  Neven Isailović (The Institute of History Belgrade)

Tuesday 2 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The Black Death and its consequences for the Jochi ulus and the successor states (The Tatar Khanates, Moscow and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania)
  Timur Khajdarov (Kazan Federal University)

Tuesday 9 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - "Let Your Brother be to you like a Heathen and a Tax Collector": Fashioning an Orthodox Dynastic Identity during the Reign of Ivan III of Moscow
  Iulia Nitescu (University of Bucharest)

Tuesday 16 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Reinterpreting Russian Orthodox Canons Against Homosexuality
  Nicholas Mayhew (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 23 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Ascending to the Divine Scriptorium (The Concept of Heavenly Writings in the Slavonic Apocalypse of Enoch)
  Florentina Badalanova-Geller (Royal Anthropological Institute)

Tuesday 30 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The image of an Arab woman in medieval Rus literature (11th–16th century)
  Zofia Brzozowska (The University of Łódz)