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 7 May 2025

17:00 - Tepekozis: A Medieval Cyclops Story in Pharasiot (Asia Minor Greek)
Mark Janse (Ghent)

Wednesday 14 May 2025

17:00 - Pro Meliori et pro Utilitate Terre: Venetian Crete and the Exploitation of the post-Byzantine Aegean
Lorenzo Saccon (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Wednesday 21 May 2025

17:00 - Rhetoric and Reality in the Imperial Orations of Niketas Choniates
Alicia Simpson (American College of Greece)

Wednesday 28 May 2025

17:00 - The Empire of Trebizond: The State of Research and Possible Future Directions
Rustam Shukurov (IMAFO, Vienna)

Wednesday 4 June 2025

17:00 - John Tzetzes and the Heritage of Hephaistion: Transmission, Critique, and Innovation in Byzantine Treatises on Metrics
Giuseppe Mendicino (Milan)

Wednesday 11 June 2025

17:00 - “The Last Byzantine Controversy” — Politics, Rhetoric, and Religion from the Council of Ferrara-Florence to the Fall of Constantinople
John-Francis Martin (Oriel College, Oxford)

Wednesday 18 June 2025

17:00 - Special OCBR lecture - The Emergence of Fiction: Byzantium and the East
Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford)

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Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark

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