• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Ine Jacobs , Ida Toth
• Timing: Thursdays, 11:30-13:00

Thursday 5 May 2016 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Continuity in churches of Late Antique Bulgaria
  Andrew Poulter

Thursday 12 May 2016 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Christianity in the hinterland of Roman and Umayyad Philadelphia (Amman).
  David Kennedy

Thursday 19 May 2016 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Mount Gerizim and the Christian Conversion of Jewish and Samaritan Holy Sites in Late Antiquity
  Simon Ford

Thursday 26 May 2016 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Pre-Christian imagery in baptisteries in Late Antique Iberia and North Africa – A paradox?
  Stefanie Lenk (Oxford, “Empires of Faith”)

Thursday 2 June 2016 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Between coast and hinterland: settlement development in Late Antique Lycia.
  Kristina Terpoy

Thursday 9 June 2016 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - The stucco torso from a church in Koke (Seleucia-Ctesiphon) and the art of Byzantium
  Agnieszka Lic

Thursday 16 June 2016 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Endangered Archaeology in Yemen: the role of satellite imagery analysis in surveying the inaccessible
  Andrea Zerbini, Michael Fradley

Friday 14 October 2016 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Byzantium and climate change. Studying resilience in a complex historical society
  Adam Izdebski (Krakow)

Friday 21 October 2016 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Saint Eustratios of Sebasteia - the intercessor? The appearances of St. Eustratios on the ivory triptychs and wall paintings in the Middle and Late Byzantine period
  Dejan Gorgievski (Kumanovo)

Friday 28 October 2016 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Church Donor Portraits: Motives for and modes of prayer in Byzantium. A study of their chronological evolution
  Maria-Nectaria Antoniou

Friday 4 November 2016 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Evidence for the Conversion of Synagogues in Late Antiquity
  Simon Ford

Friday 11 November 2016 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - The art of Pope Gregory III 731-741): early medieval Rome between Byzantium and the Lombard kingdom
  Masue Kato (Rikkyo)

Friday 18 November 2016 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - The legacy of a Sassanian frontier? Barda’a (Azerbaijan), capital of Arran in the early Islamic period
  Paul Wordsworth

Friday 25 November 2016 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "Late Roman and Early Islamic Discoveries at Metelis (Kom al-Ahmer) near Alexandria, Egypt"
  Mohamed Kenawi's (University of Alexandria)

Thursday 19 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Building God’s Empire: Archaeology and the Byzantine Reconquest of Africa
  Corisande Fenwick (UCL)

Thursday 26 January 2017 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Reliquaries of Sugane in the Limestone Massif. New evidence from the Tchalenko Archive
  Pawel Nowakowski (University of Oxford)

Thursday 2 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Edessan image in Georgian pictorial and narrative sources
  Irma Karaulashvili (Ilia State University)

Thursday 9 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Christian Stucco Decorations in Southern Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf Region, 6th-9th centuries
  Agnieszka Lic (University of Oxford)

Thursday 16 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Under the Protection of the Mother of God: The Oratory of John VII (705-707) in the Old St Peter’s in Rome
  Maria Lidova (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - The Late Roman coastal surveillance fort of can Blai (Formentera, Baleares). Imperial defence at the beginning of the 4th century AD
  Ricardo Gonzalez (Nice, CNRS)

Thursday 2 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Grave Robbing and the Reuse of Funerary Material in Late Antiquity
  Cristina Murer (University of Berlin)

Thursday 4 May 2017 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - ‘Epigraphic Gleanings from the British Museum’
  Georgi Parpulov (University of Oxford)

Thursday 11 May 2017 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - ‘From Ignorance to Evidence? The First Invention of Opaque Glazing of Ceramics in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant- A Technological Approach’
  Moujan Matin (University of Oxford)

Thursday 18 May 2017 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - ‘Crosses as water purification devices in the Byzantine Near East’
  Stephen Humphries (University of Durham)

Thursday 25 May 2017 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - ‘New sigillographic evidence for the history of the Latin Church in the East, 11th-13th centuries’
  Vivien Prigent (CNRS)

Thursday 1 June 2017 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - ‘The world engaged: Monastic economies in Late Antique Egypt’
  Louise Blanke (University of Oxford)

Thursday 8 June 2017 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - ‘From Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages, once more: making sense of a multi-period rural church in Cyprus’
  Tassos Papacostas (KCL)

Thursday 15 June 2017 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 09:30 - Monumentality across media in the Late Antique East: a Workshop
  Various Speakers

Thursday 12 October 2017 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - The Triconch Church at Aphrodisias: Architecture and Embellishment AD 500–1250
  Hugh Jeffery

Thursday 19 October 2017 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Cult and Image of St. George in Medieval Georgian Art
  Ekaterine Gedevanishvili

Thursday 26 October 2017 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - A Sculptor and His Workshop in 11th-Century Greece
  Rowena Loverance

Thursday 2 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Defining Urban Space: Archaeology and Topography of Mtskheta
  Irina Demetradze

Thursday 9 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Fun with Achilles. Late Roman Perspectives on the Life of a Greek Hero
  Stefan Faust

Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "Painted in Dire Times": Artists and Patrons Coping with Financial Changes in the Late Byzantine and Ottoman Balkans
  Theocharis Tsampouras

Thursday 23 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Literary and Material Evidence for Early Christian Female Pilgrimage
  Grace Stafford

Thursday 30 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Ishkani, a Medieval Georgian Church in Northeast Turkey: Modern Restoration, New Findings
  Irene Giviashvili

Thursday 18 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Greek painters in Kyiv at the time of the orthodox renewal
  Vera Tchentsova (Oxford)

Thursday 25 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Water nymphs and the Kolymbos: The Laskarid Palace at Nymphaion revisited
  Suna Çağaptay (Cambridge/Istanbul)

Thursday 1 February 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Mortuary display and the burial of the rich in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean
  Adam Bollok (Oxford)

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Between ideology and utopia: urban space and landscape in Libanios' Antiochikos
  Panagiotis Doukelis (Athens)

Thursday 15 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Canon or dynamics? Some reflections on the origin and development of funerary portrait reliefs from Palmyra
  Łukasz Sokołowski (Warsaw)

Thursday 22 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - See the beauty of these writings: visual elements of Byzantine book epigrams
  Rachele Ricceri (Ghent)

Thursday 1 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Religious and domestic rituals with water and copper alloy vessels
  Brigitte Pitarakis (Paris)

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Middle Byzantine dedicatory inscriptions from Macedonia. New insights into patronage: authority, identity and space
  Nektarios Zarras (Münster)

Thursday 26 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Seville and its port during the Late Antique period
  Carlos Cabrera Tejedor (Oxford)

Thursday 3 May 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Fabric for Plaster: Making and using late antique textiles (resist dyed)
  Katarzyna Lubos (Bonn)

Thursday 10 May 2018 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Late Antiquity in the cape of Akra Lochias: New Findings
  Kyriakos Savvopoulos (Oxford)

Thursday 17 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Wall mosaics in archaeological context in Asia Minor: technical and iconographical potential
  Elisabetta Neri (CNRS-Orléans)

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Asserting control over outlying provinces: the case of the island of Sicily
  Vivien Prigent (CNRS-MFO)

Thursday 24 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - “The light of Christ shines for all” – the meaning of crosses with tetragrams for Byzantine society
  Andreas Rhoby

Thursday 31 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - The life, death, and afterlife of statues at the public baths of Salamis, Cyprus (100-700 AD)
  Panayiotis Panayides

Thursday 7 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Monastic communities in the Western Thebes. Reusing pagan space
  Aleksandra Pawlikowska

Thursday 14 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Modes of architectural imagery in the Late Antique and Early Medieval Eastern Mediterranean
  Beatrice Leal (East Anglia University)

Thursday 21 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - Walking on the Bible: Old and New Testament floor mosaics in Late Antique churches and synagogues
  Sean Leatherbury

Thursday 28 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - ‘Basilica B’ at Philippi: The phases of construction of an incomplete Church
  Nikos Karydis

Thursday 7 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - The Trier ivory conundrum: New remarks on old theories
  Efthymios Rizos

Thursday 2 May 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Visual Antiquarianism in Mystras
  Andrea Mattiello

Thursday 9 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Womb, black and blackened: Textual and iconic help with hysteria from Late Antiquity and Byzantium
  Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (Oxford)

Thursday 16 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Visualizing Kingship in early Solomonic Ethiopia
  Jacopo Gnisci (University of Oxford)

Thursday 23 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 11:00 - Late Antiquity in Pula (Croatia) - St Theodore's Quarter
  Vendi Jukić Buča

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - The Other Çatalhoyük: Historic Cemeteries and Cultural Memory
  Sophie Moore

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - "Snatch Me Away from the Drunkenness of Passions": Byzantine Devotional Pectorals and the Practice of Prosochē
  Ivan Drpić

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Georgia in Late Antiquity: Literary and Material Culture
  Manana Odisheli

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Mosaics and Memory: Late Antique Figured Funerary Mosaics from North Africa
  Elodie Powell

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Adornment as Public Spectacle in Late Antique Art and Culture
  Grace Stafford

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - The Day the Sun Stood Still… Representations of Joshua in Late Antique, Byzantine and Crusader Art
  Rowena Loverance

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:00 - Economic and Urban Realities in Late Antique Dion (Greece) through the Ceramic Evidence
  Kyriakos Fragoulis

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

• 11:00 - Early Christian Burials in Sirmium: Recent Finds
  Miroslav Vujovic

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - The Saints in the Late Antique Mosaics of Thessaloniki
  Efthymios Rizos

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 11:00 - The many sides of Byzantine sculpture: textual sources, materials, techniques, ornamental and anthropomorphic motifs
  Catherine Vanderheyde

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Title TBC
  Giulia Marsili (Università di Bologna)

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Antique Churches: women's honorifics in donor inscriptions in Late Antique Palaestina and Arabia
  Marlena Whiting (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - The Church of Stoudios in Istanbul from Cyril Mango to Urs Peschlow: Archaeology, Archives, and Modern Times
  Please note that this seminar takes place at the Maison Française d’Oxford
  Olivier Delouis (CNRS/Maison Française d'Oxford), Çiçek Dereli (Central European University)

Thursday 2 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 11:30 - Heavenly Brides: Female Sanctity in Late Antique and Byzantine Art
  Maria Lidova (Moscow)