• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Philip Booth , Bryan Ward-Perkins
• Timing: Thursdays at 5 pm

Thursday 28 April 2016 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - The invention of Stephen’s relics: the cult of saints and religious controversy in late antique Palestine
  Damien Labadie (École pratique des hautes études, Paris)

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

• 17:00 - Alexandrian theology in Nonnus’ biblical epic
  Filip Doroszewski (Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University, Warsaw)

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

• 17:00 - Conversion from Nicene to Homoian Christianity in the barbarian kingdoms
  Marta Szada (‘Presbyters’ project, University of Warsaw)

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

• 17:00 - The Syriac Life of Mar Yareth the Alexandrian: Imagining a holy man in early medieval Mesopotamia
  Sergey Minov (‘Cult of Saints’ project, Oxford)

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

• 17:00 - Who wrote the first part of Nicephorus' Short History?
  Christian Boudignon (University of Aix-Marseille)

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

• 17:00 - A circle of Egyptian bishops at the end of Roman rule (c. 600 CE): sources and contexts
  Phil Booth (Theology and Religion, Oxford)

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

• 17:00 - Identifying Others in the Life of Caesarius of Arles
  Erica Buchberger (College of Charleston. South Carolina)

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

• 17:00 - OCLA Special Lecture: Syriac - a language and culture without empire
  Scott Johnson (Oklahoma State University)