• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Philip Booth , Ida Toth
• Timing: Wednesdays at 17:00 (UK Time)

Wednesday 14 October 2015

• 17:00 - “Byzantine refugees as crusade propagandists: The travels of Nicholas Agallon, 1454-5”
  Jonathan Harris (Royal Holloway, London)

Wednesday 21 October 2015

• 17:00 - “John of Cappadocia and the ‘Gift from God’”
  TBA

Wednesday 28 October 2015

• 17:00 - “Byzantine Concentric Churches of Jerusalem and their Impact on Palestine and Beyond”
  Vered Shalev (Wolfson)

Wednesday 4 November 2015

• 17:00 - “Androna and the Late Antique Cities of Oriens”
  Marlia Mango (St John’s)

Wednesday 11 November 2015

• 17:00 - “Lessons from a New History of Byzantium, 955-1097 AD”
  TBA

Wednesday 18 November 2015

• 17:00 - “How Constantinople stopped its emperors going the way of the way of the fifth-century West”
  Adrastos Omissi (Oriel)

Wednesday 25 November 2015

• 17:00 - “The Vlachs in the French chronicles, Constantinople, and the echo chamber”
  Florin Curta (University of Florida)

Wednesday 2 December 2015

• 17:00 - “Between Conquest and History: Arabic Memory of the Fall of Byzantine Egypt”
  Edward Zychowicz-Coghill (Worcester)

Wednesday 20 January 2016

• 17:00 - “Book Epigrams, Metrical Paratexts, and ‘Inscriptional’ Verses in Byzantine Manuscripts”
  Andreas Rhoby (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna)

Wednesday 27 January 2016

• 17:00 - “Publishing Byzantine historiography in early modern Europe: a historical and bibliographical survey.”
  Geri della Rocca de Candal (ERC Research Fellow, Bodleian Library)

Wednesday 3 February 2016

• 17:00 - “Divine-theurgic Unions of Individuals with their Personal Daimons and Internalised Gods in the Greek Magical Papyri”
  Eleni Pachoumi (North-West University, South Africa)

Wednesday 10 February 2016

• 17:00 - "Continuity and Tradition in Greek Orthodox Monasteries in the Crusader States”
  Andrew Jotischky (Lancaster University)

Wednesday 17 February 2016

• 17:00 - “The chimaera of the grammarians: middle voice in the Byzantine grammatical tradition, some insights.”
  Juan Signes Codoñer (University of Valladolid)

Wednesday 24 February 2016

• 17:00 - “Reliques of Old Rhetoric: Artistic Elements in the Homilies of Sophronius of Jerusalem”
  John Duffy (Harvard University)

Wednesday 2 March 2016

• 17:00 - “Between Roman latifundia and the Late Medieval Black Sea: was slavery widespread in middle Byzantium?”
  Marek Jankowiak (Wolfson)

Wednesday 9 March 2016

• 17:00 - “Glimpses of Shared Sacred Sites in the Levant”
  Miranda Williams (Faculty of Classics), Judith McKenzie (St. Hugh’s)

Wednesday 27 April 2016

• 17:00 - OUBS Fieldtrip to Armenia: Report
  Matthew Kinloch et al. (OUBS)

Wednesday 4 May 2016

• 17:00 - The Fall of the House of Constantine, 324-366 A.D.
  George Woudhuysen (All Souls College)

Wednesday 11 May 2016

• 17:00 - Eustathios at Prodromos Petra? Some Remarks on the Manuscript Tradition of the Exegesis in Canonem lambicum Pentecostalem
  Silvia Ronchey (University of Rome)

Wednesday 18 May 2016

• 17:00 - Violence against Christians and Shi'is in the Early Islamic Period: Formation of a Persecuting Society
  Christian Sahner (St John's College, Cambridge)

Wednesday 25 May 2016

• 17:00 - Reading about Writing about Heretics: Recent Scholarship on Heresiology and Some Ideas for Moving Forward
  Tia Kolbaba (Rutgers University)

Wednesday 1 June 2016

• 17:00 - The lives of the women of the Komnenian house under Manuel I, as seen in the poems of Mangeneios Prodomos
  Michael Jeffreys (University of Sydney/ Oxford)

Wednesday 8 June 2016

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Dominic Brookshaw (Wadham College)

Wednesday 15 June 2016

• 17:00 - Cappadocian churches; hubs of monasteries or civic shrines
  Elena Ene Draghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 12 October 2016

• 17:00 - “The Material Forms of Cultural Transfer: Migrations of People and Books in the Early Medieval Mediterranean. Greek Texts from East to West”
  Filippo Ronconi (EHESS, Paris)

Wednesday 19 October 2016

• 17:00 - “Andronikos II and an-Nāṣir Muḥammad: Byzantine-Mamluk relations and the situation of Orthodox Christians under Mamluk rule at the beginning of the 14th century”
  Johannes Pahlitzsch (Mainz)

Wednesday 26 October 2016

• 17:00 - “Working-drawings of Icon Painters”
  Maria Vassilaki (Crete)

Wednesday 2 November 2016

• 17:00 - “The Byzantine harbour and shipwrecks at Yenikapı, Istanbul: Recent research”
  CANCELLED: Unfortunately, Prof. Ufuk and Işıl Kocabaş, who were scheduled to speak today WED at 5 in the Ioannou on the Yenikapı shipwrecks, have been unable to secure UK visas in time to travel. The seminar has had, therefore, with great regret to be cancelled.
  Ufuk Kocabaş (Istanbul), Işıl Kocabaş (Istanbul)

Wednesday 9 November 2016

• 17:00 - “At the periphery of the Empire: the Byzantine provinces of southern Italy and Constantinople”
  Vera von Falkenhausen (Rome)

Wednesday 16 November 2016

• 17:00 - "Historical symbolism of the Great Palace of Constantinople"
  Michael Featherstone (Oxford)

Wednesday 23 November 2016

• 17:00 - “Not Just Cheese and Potatoes: Recent Research on Naxos and the Byzantine Aegean”
  Jim Crow (Edinburgh)

Wednesday 30 November 2016

• 17:00 - “All the Emperor’s Men (and His Nephews): Paideia and Networking Strategies at the Court of Andronikos II Palaiologos, 1290–1320”
  Niels Gaul (Edinburgh)

Wednesday 18 January 2017

• 17:00 - OCBR SPECIAL LECTURE: How to spend it? Wealth, Charity and Remembrance in the late Byzantine period
  Dionysios Stathakopoulos

Wednesday 25 January 2017

• 17:00 - Egypt in the Sasanian Empire (619–629): Stability, Continuity, and Tolerance?
  Phil Booth (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 1 February 2017

• 17:00 - Invaders and Neighbours. The Beginnings of the First
  Daniel Ziemann (University of Budapest)

Wednesday 8 February 2017

• 17:00 - The organization of sacred space in a Constantinopolitan church: the case of Saint John the Baptist of Oxeia
  Michel Kaplan (University of Paris)

Wednesday 15 February 2017

• 17:00 - Byzantium in the West: roundabout Apulia
  Paul Arthur (University of Lecce)

Wednesday 22 February 2017

• 17:00 - The twelfth-century chronicle ofJohn Zonaras and its audience
  Theofili Kampianaki (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 1 March 2017

• 17:00 - The Septuagint in the Biblical Catenae
  Gilles Dorival (University of Aix-Marseille)

Wednesday 8 March 2017

• 17:00 - Constantinople between the Ottomans, the Bulgarians, and the West: the creation of the last Byzantine monetary system in 1372
  Julian Baker (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 26 April 2017

• 17:00 - “OUBS Fieldtrip to Bulgaria: Report”
  Mirela Ivanova et al. (OUBS)

Wednesday 3 May 2017

• 17:00 - “Basil of Caesarea reinvented in Byzantium? From the holy bishop to the father of the monks”
  Olivier Delouis (Paris)

Wednesday 10 May 2017

• 17:00 - “Seven Hellenes and one Christian in the Endless Peace treaty of 532: a reappraisal of the protecting clause about the philosophers ”
  Ekaterina Nachaeva (Zurich)

Wednesday 17 May 2017

• 17:00 - “Framing a Narrative: Synagogue Conversion in the Late Antique Mediterranean”
  Simon Ford (Oxford)

Wednesday 24 May 2017

• 17:00 - “Dobrynia Iadreikovich’s 1200 pilgrimage to Constantinople: Byzantine ceremonial culture through the eyes of travellers from Rus”
  Alexandra Vukovich (Cambridge)

Wednesday 31 May 2017

• 17:00 - “Christ, Fire, Gospels: images of theophany in the Chapel of Galla Placidia in Ravenna ”
  Maria Lidova (Oxford)

Wednesday 7 June 2017

• 17:00 - “The Byzantine Text of the Greek New Testament”
  Georgi Parpulov (London - Oxford)

Wednesday 14 June 2017

• 17:00 - “Working on the Greek Anthology”
  Arianna Gullo (Durham)

Wednesday 17 January 2018

• 17:00 - The Killing of Mani, Crippled by the ‘Lie’: Zoroastrian Hermeneutics as Sasanian Historiography
  Yuhan Vevaina

Wednesday 24 January 2018

• 17:00 - Anatomy of a murder: Patriarch John VII of Jerusalem († 966) and Melkite status in early Islamic Palestine
  Dan Reynolds

Wednesday 31 January 2018

• 17:00 - Narrating the Eleventh-Century Crisis from Constantinople to Caucasia: Aristakes Lastivertsi and Michael Attaleiates Compared
  Nicholas Matheou

Wednesday 7 February 2018

• 17:00 - Some ways in which to think about Byzantium as global
  Catherine Holmes

Wednesday 14 February 2018

• 17:00 - The accounting in the Book of Ceremonies
  Constantin Zuckerman

Wednesday 21 February 2018

• 17:00 - Cultural Mobility in Late Antique Armenia
  Emilio Bonfiglio

Wednesday 28 February 2018

• 17:00 - Beyond the periphery: the Byzantine Insular World between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages (ca. 600-ca. 900)
  Luca Zavagno

Wednesday 7 March 2018

• 17:00 - What is Later Byzantium? Towards a New Periodization of Byzantine Cultural History
  Foteini Spingou

Monday 23 April 2018

• 17:00 - Special OCBR Lecture: The Caucasian Alans between Byzantine Christianity and traditional paganism
  Richard Foltz

Wednesday 2 May 2018

• 17:00 - Anna Komnene: Gender and authorship in 12th-century Byzantium
  Leonora Neville

Wednesday 9 May 2018

• 17:00 - Special OCBR Lecture: The Author of the Patria
  Paul Magdalino

Wednesday 16 May 2018

• 17:00 - Reports on the LABS Trip to Iran
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 23 May 2018

• 17:00 - A Muslim contribution to the development of naval arsenals
  David Blackman, Carlos Tejedor

Wednesday 30 May 2018

• 17:00 - The officium stratoris in the Palaiologan period. New reflections on the nature of imperial power in the 13th-15th centuries
  Raul Estangui

Wednesday 6 June 2018

• 17:00 - , Old statues, new meanings. Literary, epigraphic and archaeological evidence for Christian re-interpretation of classical statuary
  Ine Jacobs

Wednesday 13 June 2018

• 17:00 - Byzantine scribes and their paratexts
  Georgi Parpulov

Wednesday 10 October 2018

• 17:00 - Byzantine literature in the Slavic world: serendipity or intention?
  Professor Elizabeth Jeffreys

Wednesday 17 October 2018

• 17:00 - Centres, peripheries and networks: an impossible triangle to square in Byzantium?
  Dr Catherine Holmes

Wednesday 24 October 2018

• 17:00 - Looking east: Christian art outside the world of Christian hegemony
  Professor Jaś Elsner

Wednesday 31 October 2018

• 17:00 - The typology of nomad empires
  Dr James Howard-Johnston

Wednesday 7 November 2018

• 17:00 - Story-telling east and west
  Professor Marc Lauxtermann

Wednesday 14 November 2018

• 17:00 - Byzantium and the Miaphysite commonwealth
  Dr Phil Booth

Wednesday 21 November 2018

• 17:00 - Antiquity and identity in Byzantine, Italian and Ottoman cultures
  Dr Ida Toth

Wednesday 28 November 2018

• 17:00 - Empire and commonwealth today
  Professor Dame Averil Cameron

Wednesday 16 January 2019

• 17:00 - The Vienna Euchologia Project: New Sources for the Social History of Byzantium (OCBR LECTURE)
  Claudia Rapp (Vienna)

Wednesday 23 January 2019

• 17:00 - Byzance après Byzance? Metrical inscriptions c. 1450-1650
  Andreas Rhoby (Vienna)

Wednesday 30 January 2019

• 17:00 - Some proposals on the textual transmission of Barlaam and Ioasaph
  Sergio Basso (Rome)

Wednesday 6 February 2019

• 17:00 - Manzikert, Dandanqan, and Somnath: Nomadic and sedentary warfare in medieval Eurasia
  George Malagaris (Oxford)

Wednesday 13 February 2019

• 17:00 - Applied poetry and prose: Greek incantations and amulets in Byzantium
  Michael Zellmann-Rohrer (Oxford)

Wednesday 20 February 2019

• 17:00 - New light on the seventh century: the corpus of seals from Carthage
  Vivien Prigent (Oxford)

Wednesday 27 February 2019

• 17:00 - Byzantine Imitation Coins and the Emergence of Rus
  Alexandra Vukovich (Oxford)

Wednesday 6 March 2019

• 17:00 - Festschrift Elizabeth and Michael Jeffreys – book launch
  Teresa Shawcross (Princeton), Ida Toth (Oxford)

Wednesday 1 May 2019

• 17:00 - Seals and Identity in Byzantium
  Claudia Sode (Cologne)

Friday 3 May 2019

• 12:00 - SPECIAL SEMINAR: Futures of the Past: the secondary versions of the Chronicle of the Logothete from a philologist´s point of view
  Staffan Wahlgren (Trondheim)

Wednesday 8 May 2019

• 17:00 - Variation in Learned Byzantine Greek
  Staffan Wahlgren (Trondheim)

Wednesday 15 May 2019

• 17:00 - Report on the trip to Greece
  Katerina Vavaliou et al
  Katerina Vavaliou (OUBS)

Wednesday 22 May 2019

• 17:00 - Cyril and Methodios, apostles to the Slavs? Missionary Hagiography between Rome and Constantinople
  Mirela Ivanova (OUBS)

Wednesday 29 May 2019

• 17:00 - Arithmetic Texts and Networks of Learning: From Medieval India Through the Mediterranean World
  This seminar will be in the First Floor Seminar Room
  Alessandra Petrocchi (Oxford)

Wednesday 5 June 2019

• 17:00 - SPECIAL OCBR LECTURE: Homer and Late antique Poetry in the light of new poems by Dioscorus of Aphrodite
  Jean-Luc Fournet (Collège de France, Paris)

Wednesday 12 June 2019

• 17:00 - Cross-cultural transfer of medical knowledge in the medieval Mediterranean: from the Islamic world to Byzantium
  Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (Edinburgh)

Wednesday 19 June 2019

• 17:00 - Orthodox Death, Burial and Commemoration in Late Byzantium and under Ottoman Rule, ca. 1300-1600
  Zachary Chitwood (Mainz)

Wednesday 16 October 2019

• 17:00 - Light and Fire: Hesychast hagiography and editorial practice in late Byzantium
  Mihail Mitrea (Newcastle)

Wednesday 23 October 2019

• 17:00 - The fictive mosaics of medieval Serbia
  Ivan Drpić (Pennsylvania)

Wednesday 30 October 2019

• 17:00 - New approaches to the 13th century: Prosopography, networks and tree rings
  Ekaterini Mitsiou (Göttingen)

Wednesday 6 November 2019

• 17:00 - Commerce in Byzantium in the long eleventh century
  Chris Wickham (Oxford)

Wednesday 13 November 2019

• 17:00 - John Mystikos – an underrated envoy to Rus?
  Jonathan Shepard (Oxford)

Wednesday 20 November 2019

• 17:00 - From "successor state" to "empire"? The relationship between Trebizond and Constantinople during the Palaiologan period
  Annika Asp (Birmingham)

Wednesday 27 November 2019

• 17:00 - Seeing, reading and understanding a metrical inscription in late Antiquity
  Gianfranco Agosti (Rome)

Wednesday 4 December 2019

• 17:00 - Representations of Romanness in Byzantine civil wars
  Yannis Stouraitis (Rome)

Wednesday 5 February 2020

• 17:00 - Vitriolic attacks in twelfth-century Byzantium: Poetry, satirical strands, and intellectual antagonism
  Nikos Zagklas (Vienna)

Wednesday 12 February 2020

• 17:00 - Last border of Byzantium? Byzantine-Seljuk border zone in lower Sakarya valley from Komnenoi to Palaiologoi
  Roman Shlyakhtin (Mainz)

Wednesday 19 February 2020

• 17:00 - On the History, improperly styled “Secret”, of Nicetas of Paphlagonia, and the power of anathema over books
  Constantin Zuckerman (Paris)

Wednesday 26 February 2020

• 17:00 - Christians, Turks, and the origins of the First Crusade
  Alexander Mallett (Waseda, Tokyo)

Wednesday 4 March 2020

• 17:00 - Is textual criticism dead? A report on the forthcoming edition of Nikephoros Choumnos’ letter collections
  Alexander Riehle (Harvard)

Wednesday 11 March 2020

• 17:00 - The Excerpta Constantiniana and the editor of the fragmentary historians: New fragments from Dexippus and Polybius
  Andras Nemeth (Vatican)

Wednesday 6 May 2020

• 17:00 - Mehmed II’s Patria, Byzas’ Palace, and Ottoman Hellenism in the Fifteenth Century
  If you don't have an Oxford email address please email marek.jankowiak@history.ox.ac.uk
  Aslıhan Akışık (Wolfson)

Wednesday 13 May 2020

• 17:00 - The Transmission of Monumental Art: Travelling Saints and Monastic Networks
  If you don't have an Oxford email address please email marek.jankowiak@history.ox.ac.uk
  Pamela Armstrong (Oxford)

Wednesday 20 May 2020

• 17:00 - A New Key to Understanding the Schism?
  If you don't have an Oxford email address please email marek.jankowiak@history.ox.ac.uk
  Alessandra Bucossi (Venice)

Wednesday 27 May 2020

• 17:00 - Representations of Romanness in Byzantine Civil Wars
  If you don't have an Oxford email address please email marek.jankowiak@history.ox.ac.uk
  Yannis Stouraitis (Edinburgh)

Wednesday 10 June 2020

• 17:00 - The Excerpta Constantiniana: Revisiting Constantine VII’s Cultural Enterprise
  This meeting will be held with Google Meet - meet.google.com/dqa-ytsv-okk
  Andras Nemeth (Vatican)

Wednesday 17 June 2020

• 17:00 - Writing a New History of Byzantium
  This meeting will be held with Google Meet - meet.google.com/dqa-ytsv-okk
  Anthony Kaldellis (Ohio SU)

Wednesday 20 January 2021

• 17:00 - P.Lond I 113.10, the tribute of Cyrus, and the Muslim conquest of Egypt
  Marek Jankowiak (Oxford)

Wednesday 27 January 2021

• 17:00 - Imperial Piety, Warfare and Eschatology in the Age of Heraclius
  Nadine Viermann (Heidelberg)

Wednesday 3 February 2021

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Jonathan Shea (Dumbarton Oaks)

Wednesday 10 February 2021

• 17:00 - Why "Galata”? New epigraphic evidence on the toponomastics of a suburb of Constantinople
  Paweł Nowakowski (Warsaw)

Wednesday 17 February 2021

• 17:00 - Fasting in eleventh-century Byzantium: a crisis of authority
  Dirk Krausmüller (Vienna)

Wednesday 24 February 2021

• 17:00 - Deification for all: Rethinking the role of Palamas in the history of Hesychasm
  Rei Hakamada (Okayama/Oxford)

Wednesday 3 March 2021

• 17:00 - George Pachymeres and the decline of the restored Byzantine empire
  Warren Treadgold (St Louis)

Wednesday 10 March 2021

• 17:00 - Collected from all kinds of places: Building and exploring a corpus of Byzantine book epigrams
  Kristoffel Demoen (Ghent), Floris Bernard (Ghent)

Wednesday 28 April 2021

• 17:00 - Of Fleas and Men. Byzantine Cultural Entomology
  Przemysław Marciniak (Katowice)

Wednesday 5 May 2021

• 17:00 - Why do Methods change? On the Significance of 815 for Byzantine Thought
  Christophe Erismann (Vienna)

Wednesday 19 May 2021

• 17:00 - What is in the Bath: Pilgrims, Brides, and Baptism in the Early Byzantine Passion of Barbara
  Daria Resh (NYU/Athens)

Wednesday 26 May 2021

• 17:00 - Word as Bond in an Age of Division. John Eugenikos as Orator, Partisan, and Poet
  Krystina Kubina (Vienna)

Wednesday 2 June 2021

• 17:00 - Veiling and Head-Covering in Late Antiquity
  Grace Stafford (Oxford)

Wednesday 9 June 2021

• 17:00 - Who wants a union? Rethinking the negotiations between the Armenians and the Byzantines for an ecclesiastical union in the 12th century
  Karen Hamada (Tokyo/Oxford)

Wednesday 16 June 2021

• 17:00 - Theodore Prodromos: Towards an edition of his Letters and Speeches
  Michiel Op de Coul (Tilburg)

Wednesday 10 November 2021

• 17:00 - People and Power in Hagia Sophia (532-1204)
  Stephanos Efthymiadis (Open University of Cyprus)
• 17:00 - Preaching in the Second Iconoclasm. The homilies of Joseph of Thessalonica
  Theodora Antonopoulou (Athens)

Wednesday 17 November 2021

• 17:00 - Writing and reading anti-Islamic polemics in Byzantium: the "Conversation of the monk Euthymios with a Saracen philosopher" (12th c.)
  Luisa Andriollo (Pisa)

Wednesday 24 November 2021

• 17:00 - From Constantinople and its hinterland to Theophanes and Procopius
  Geoffrey Greatrex (Ottawa)
• 17:00 - Everyday life beyond Symeon the Fool
  Luke Lavan (Kent)
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Vincenzo Ruggieri (Pontificio Istituto Orientale)

Wednesday 1 December 2021

• 17:00 - Production, trade and networks in southern Italy
  Elisabetta Neri (Liège)

Wednesday 19 January 2022

• 17:30 - M. Whiting, E. Turquois, M. Ritter (Mainz and Halle), Introduction to the DFG project “Procopius and the Language of Buildings”
  Marlena Whiting (Mainz and Halle)

Wednesday 26 January 2022

• 17:30 - Reworking the Buildings: The shorter recension as a later epitome
  Elodie Turquois (Mainz)

Wednesday 2 February 2022

• 17:30 - Long Walls and Linear Barriers in the South Balkan Provinces
  Efthymios Rizos (Serres)

Wednesday 9 February 2022

• 17:30 - Procopius, De Aedificiis and Eastern Thrace: Is absence the highest form of presence?
  Jim Crow (Edinburgh)

Wednesday 16 February 2022

• 17:30 - Procopius and the reflection of water landscapes in the 6th century
  Alkiviadis Ginalis (Istanbul)

Wednesday 23 February 2022

• 17:30 - Building Stories: Constantinople in Malalas and Procopius
  Olivier Gengler (Tübingen)

Wednesday 2 March 2022

• 17:30 - Re-building Byzantium: Archaeological evidence on the construction activities under Justinian in Constantinople and its neighbourhoods
  Kerim Altuğ (Istanbul)

Wednesday 9 March 2022

• 17:30 - “He restored all the dismantled fortresses in Libya” (Aed. vi.5.7): Reassessing the Justinianic fortification programme in North Africa
  Miranda Williams (Oxford)

Wednesday 27 April 2022

• 17:00 - Twelfth-Century Scholars on the Moral Value of Ancient Poetry
  Baukje van den Berg (Central European University)

Wednesday 4 May 2022

• 17:00 - The siege of Constantinople in 717-718: the embarrassing memory of a triumph
  Marie-France Auzépy (emerita, Université Paris 8)

Wednesday 11 May 2022

• 17:00 - Kosmokrator: the origins of the iconographic tradition, between East and West
  Anca Dan (CNRS, Paris Sciences & Lettres)

Wednesday 18 May 2022

• 17:00 - From Princes Islands to Oxford: Greek Manuscripts from the Holy Trinity of Halki
  Matthieu Cassin (CNRS-IRHT)

Wednesday 25 May 2022

• 17:00 - Architecture and Sculpture in the Early Byzantine Peloponnese: Defining a Regional Context
  Priscilla Ralli (French School of Archaeology, Athens)

Wednesday 1 June 2022

• 17:00 - The Byzantine Dark Ages at Aphrodisias
  This seminar has been postponed until Michaelmas Term
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Ine Jacobs (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 8 June 2022

• 17:00 - Greek letters from the Arab chancery: who wrote the governors’ missives in eight-century Fusṭāṭ
  Arietta Papaconstantinou (Reading)

Wednesday 15 June 2022

• 17:00 - John Mauropous: verse, structure, and poetry book
  Ugo Mondini (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Wednesday 12 October 2022

• 17:00 - The Oxford conundrum: Cyril Mango and Byzantine elitism, or: what about popular culture?
  Claudia Rapp (Vienna)

Wednesday 19 October 2022

• 17:00 - “Manuscripts don’t burn”: Composition and story of the text of John Tzetzes’ Homeric Allegories
  Alberto Ravani (Oxford)

Wednesday 26 October 2022

• 17:00 - The Byzantine Dark Ages at Stauropolis/Karia (FKA Aphrodisias)
  Ine Jacobs (Oxford)

Wednesday 2 November 2022

• 17:00 - Middle-Byzantine Evangelist Portraits
  Georgi Parpulov (Oxford)

Wednesday 9 November 2022

• 17:00 - Before isometry: metrics and style of Ignatios the Deacon (and Pseudo-Ignatios)
  Federica Scognamiglio (Scuola Normale Superiore)

Wednesday 16 November 2022

• 17:00 - The Byzantine World in the Palaeologan Era: Empire(s) and Emerging Nation-States
  Marie-Hélène Blanchet (CNRS), Raúl Estangüi Gómez (Sorbonne)

Wednesday 23 November 2022

• 17:00 - Connecting Mosaics
  Liz James (Sussex)

Wednesday 30 November 2022

• 17:00 - Imperial ceremonies away from the Great Palace, 1148-1159: the evidence of Manganeios Prodromos
  Michael Jeffreys (Oxford)

Wednesday 18 January 2023

• 17:00 - The Poetics of Age in Twelfth-Century Byzantine Literature
  Joshua Hitt (St Hilda's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 25 January 2023

• 17:00 - Teaching Greek grammar to one’s son: an unpublished manual by Nikolaos Artabasdos Rabdas (14th c.)
  Olivier Delouis (Maison Française d’Oxford)

Wednesday 1 February 2023

• 17:00 - The Diegesis: a Hagiographical Text for Commemoration of the Encaenia of Hagia Sophia
  Kateryna Kovalchuk (Wolfson College, Oxford)

Wednesday 8 February 2023

• 17:00 - Theodore Prodromos’ Epigrams on the Old and New Testament: Narrative, Rhetoric, and Classical Mimesis
  Yan Zaripov (St Hilda's College, Oxford)

Wednesday 15 February 2023

• 17:00 - In the name of the ...lotus? Reinventing Christian monumental art and elite culture in the long 15th century
  Lilyana Yordanova (Ecole française d’Athènes)

Wednesday 22 February 2023

• 17:00 - The labourer is worthy of his hire? Clerics and their income in Late Antiquity
  Robert Wiśniewski (Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University of Reading)

Wednesday 1 March 2023

• 17:00 - Τhe Cinderella of Byzantine Literature: Rethinking Schedography in Middle and Late Byzantine Periods
  Nikos Zagklas (Vienna)

Wednesday 8 March 2023

• 17:00 - A Cloister for the (Grand) Komnenoi: Dynastic Rivalry and Memoria at the Foundation of Dionysiou Monastery on Mount Athos
  Zachary Chitwood (Mainz)

Wednesday 11 October 2023

• 17:00 - Portraits of the Reader during the Middle Byzantine Period
  Stratis Papaioannou (National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens)

Wednesday 18 October 2023

• 17:00 - SPECIAL OCBR LECTURE: Byzantine Princess Ruling Rus
  Adrian Jusupovic (The Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw)

Wednesday 25 October 2023

• 17:00 - More than “the last monument of Byzantine rule in Cyrenaica”: Taucheira in Late Antiquity
  Miranda Williams (Oxford), Tim Penn (Oxford), Ine Jacobs (Oxford)

Wednesday 1 November 2023

• 17:00 - Future Perfect? The Ontology of the Future in Sidonius’ Imperial Panegyrics
  Michael Hanaghan (Australian Catholic University)

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 17:00 - Positions of Considerable Emolument: Cataloguing Greek Manuscripts in Oxford
  Georgi Parpulov (Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities), Dimitris Skrekas (University of London/Oxford University)

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• 17:00 - Punitive Mutilation in Byzantine Law: The case of nose amputation in Byzantium and beyond
  Mike Humphries (Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2023

• 17:00 - The Greek Fathers in Print: the AGAPE Database and the Early Modern Patristic Editions
  Paolo Sachet (L’Institut d’histoire de la Réformation, Geneva)

Wednesday 29 November 2023

• 17:00 - Translators, Patrons, Scholars: Greek Texts in Latin Translations from Production to Audience, ca. 1050–1350
  Peter Bara (The Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest)

Wednesday 17 January 2024

• 17:00 - How Zoroastrians Debated Muslims in the Early Islamic Period
  Christian Sahner (Oxford)

Wednesday 24 January 2024

• 17:00 - The Byzantine Craft of Enamelling and its Links with Islamic Metalwork, c. 800-1204
  This seminar is cancelled - to be rescheduled in Trinity Term
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Natalija Ristovska (Oxford)

Wednesday 31 January 2024

• 17:00 - The "Timeless Empire": Sasanian Iconography as a Historical Source
  Michael Shenkar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Wednesday 7 February 2024

• 17:00 - Festive Discipline and Punishment in a Global Late Antiquity: The Iranian Political Sensorium as an Afro-Eurasian Technology of Power
  Matt Canepa (University of California, Irvine)

Wednesday 14 February 2024

• 17:00 - Automated Dialogues: Diplomacy, Technology, and Power in Late Antique and Medieval Eurasia
  Alessia Zubani (Oxford)

Wednesday 21 February 2024

• 17:00 - PAIXUE Byzantine and Tang/Song literati culture
  Niels Gaul (Edinburgh)

Wednesday 28 February 2024

• 17:00 - Elite captives and defectors between Rome and Sasanian Iran. A prosopographical approach
  Ekaterina Nechaeva (Université de Lille)

Wednesday 6 March 2024

• 17:00 - Byzantine Medicine in Light of the Global Middle Ages: Current Trends and Future Avenues
  Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)

Wednesday 24 April 2024

• 17:00 - Imperial benefaction, sanitary and religious practices in 4th-century Rome. The archaeology of the Baptistery of St. John Lateran revisited
  Thea Ravasi (University of Newcastle)

Wednesday 1 May 2024

• 17:00 - The Church of the Holy Apostles (Hagioi Apostoloi) at Kavousi, Crete: Aspects of Byzantine Art under Venetian Rule
  Polymnia Synodinou (University of Crete)

Wednesday 8 May 2024

• 17:00 - The Byzantine Craft of Enamelling and its Links with Islamic Metalwork, ca. 800-1204
  Natalija Ristovska (Oxford)

Wednesday 15 May 2024

• 17:00 - Fourteenth-Century Byzantine History-Writers and the Problem of Emperors’ Family Ties
  James Cogbill (Oxford)

Wednesday 22 May 2024

• 17:15 - Creating the Louvre’s New Department of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art: Issues and Challenges in a Turbulent World
  Please note this seminar is in the Auditorium, Corpus Christi College at 17:15
  Maximilien Durand (Musée du Louvre), Jannic Durand (Musée du Louvre)

Thursday 13 June 2024

• 17:00 - SPECIAL OCBR LECTURE Justinian: Between East and West
  Please note this lecture will be on Thursday 13 June at Trinity College
  Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 16 October 2024

• 17:00 - The Extraordinary Medieval Monuments of Georgia: A Report by the Oxford University Byzantine Society Research Trip, July 2024
  Alexander Sherborne (Oxford)

Wednesday 23 October 2024

• 17:00 - From Temple to Church: New Evidence for the Christianization of the Hephaisteion in Athens
  Anne McCabe (Athens)

Wednesday 30 October 2024

• 17:00 - What sort of Late Antiquity? Reflections on P. Brown, Journeys of the Mind
  Geoffrey Greatrex (Ottawa)

Wednesday 6 November 2024

• 17:00 - Gone with the Wind: Ambition, Scatology, and Violence in Acclamations for Albinos at Aphrodisias
  Arkadiy Avdokhin (Oxford)

Wednesday 13 November 2024

• 17:00 - The Rebirth of Byzantine Anatolia in the Twelfth Century
  Max Lau (Oxford)

Wednesday 20 November 2024

• 17:00 - Recent Research on Baptism and Baptisteries in Late Antiquity
  Lucia Orlandi (Paris/Rome)

Wednesday 27 November 2024

• 17:00 - The Rise of the Memrā in Syriac Literature
  Alberto Rigolio (Durham)

Wednesday 4 December 2024

• 17:00 - Methodologies of Commensuration: Poetry, History, and Knowledge
  Zdenka Stahuljak (UCLA)

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)

Wednesday 30 April 2025

• 17:00 - Selecting, Arranging, Dressing and Aging the Saints in Ravenna’s S. Apollinare Nuovo
  Bryan Ward-Perkins (Trinity College, Oxford)

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)

Wednesday 15 October 2025

• 17:00 - Worshipping the Mother Goddess: An Underground Cult Complex in Late Antique Aphrodisias
  Ine Jacobs (Oxford)

Wednesday 22 October 2025

• 17:00 - Concepts of Space and Orthodoxy beyond Byzantium
  Johannes Pahlitzsch (Mainz)

Wednesday 29 October 2025

• 17:00 - The Synaxarion of Constantinople as Historiography
  Stratis Papaioannou (Athens)

Wednesday 5 November 2025

• 17:00 - Why Did the Byzantine Empire Forbid Slave-Owners from Making Eunuchs of their Slaves? Castration, Masculinity, and Identity in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
  Erin Thomas Dailey (Leicester)

Wednesday 12 November 2025

• 17:00 - Hodology, Wayfinding, and Geographic Knowledge in Late Antique Pilgrimage Accounts
  Marlena Whiting (Groningen)

Wednesday 19 November 2025

• 17:00 - Revisiting the Byzantine Commonwealth: A Discussion
  Peter Frankopan (Oxford), Jonathan Shepard (Oxford)

Wednesday 26 November 2025

• 17:00 - Estates, Economy, and 'Holy Men' in Late Antique Egyptian Monasteries
  Thomas Laver (Cambridge)

Wednesday 3 December 2025

• 17:00 - Byzantium in Correspondence: 171 Letters of Athanasios Papadopoulos-Kerameus to Non-Greek Byzantinists (1875–1911)
  Olivier Delouis (Paris)