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

Thursday 5 May 2016

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

Thursday 12 May 2016

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

Thursday 19 May 2016

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

Thursday 26 May 2016

• 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

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

Thursday 9 June 2016

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

Thursday 16 June 2016

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

Friday 14 October 2016

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

Friday 21 October 2016

• 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

• 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

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

Friday 11 November 2016

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 26 January 2017

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

Thursday 2 February 2017

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

Thursday 9 February 2017

• 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

• 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

• 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

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

Thursday 4 May 2017

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

Thursday 11 May 2017

• 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

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

Thursday 25 May 2017

• 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

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

Thursday 8 June 2017

• 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

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

Thursday 12 October 2017

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

Thursday 19 October 2017

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

Thursday 26 October 2017

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

Thursday 2 November 2017

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

Thursday 9 November 2017

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

Thursday 16 November 2017

• 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

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

Thursday 30 November 2017

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

Thursday 18 January 2018

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

Thursday 25 January 2018

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

Thursday 1 February 2018

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

Thursday 8 February 2018

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

Thursday 15 February 2018

• 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

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

Thursday 1 March 2018

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

Thursday 8 March 2018

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

Thursday 26 April 2018

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

Thursday 3 May 2018

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

Thursday 10 May 2018

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

Thursday 17 May 2018

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

Thursday 17 January 2019

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

Thursday 24 January 2019

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

Thursday 31 January 2019

• 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

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

Thursday 14 February 2019

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

Thursday 21 February 2019

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

Thursday 28 February 2019

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

Thursday 7 March 2019

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

Thursday 2 May 2019

• 11:00 - Visual Antiquarianism in Mystras
  Andrea Mattiello

Thursday 9 May 2019

• 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

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

Thursday 23 May 2019

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

Thursday 17 October 2019

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

Thursday 24 October 2019

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

Thursday 31 October 2019

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

Thursday 7 November 2019

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

Thursday 14 November 2019

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

Thursday 21 November 2019

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

Thursday 28 November 2019

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

Thursday 5 December 2019

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

Thursday 5 March 2020

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

Thursday 12 March 2020

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

Thursday 21 October 2021

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

Thursday 4 November 2021

• 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

• 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

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