Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar - Oxford Talks

Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesdays at 17:00 (UK Time)

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles, unless otherwise stated, and online via Microsoft Teams here: msteams.link/FW0C

All welcome!

Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Marc Lauxtermann , Ida Toth
Timing: Wednesdays at 17:00 (UK Time)

Wednesday 22 January 2025

17:00 - World Order in Late Antiquity: The “Two Eyes” Rivalry of Byzantium and Sasanian Persia
Kevin Blachford (KCL and Defence Academy)

Wednesday 29 January 2025

17:00 - John of Ephesus: Historian on the Edge
Phil Booth (Oxford)

Wednesday 5 February 2025

17:00 - Beyond a Boundary: Armenia and Byzantium in the Ninth Century
Dan Gallaher (Oxford)

Wednesday 12 February 2025

17:00 - Soft Power, Old and New: Debating the Byzantine Commonwealth
Jonathan Shepard (Oxford)

Wednesday 19 February 2025

17:00 - Of Scripts and Scribes: Investigating Practices of Writing in Late Antique Iran
Olivia Ramble (Oxford)

Wednesday 26 February 2025

17:00 - Dialogue and Debate between Syriac and Armenian Miaphysites in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries
Andy Hilkens (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Wednesday 5 March 2025

17:00 - New Approaches to the Byzantine Army of North Africa in the 7th Century: Organisation, Strategies, and Challenges
Tommaso Giuliodoro (Durham University)

Wednesday 12 March 2025

17:00 - A Team of Palace Historians: the Final Redactions of Theophanes Continuatus and the De Cerimoniis
Michael Featherstone (Oxford)

Only showing upcoming talks

Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark

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