After Rome and Further East Seminar

The Seminar series is sponsored by the Bahari Fund for Sasanian Studies.

To attend via Microsoft Teams use this link: rb.gy/qzyv2b. There is no need to register.
Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Fanny Bessard (History/Trinity College, Oxford), Christian Sahner (AMES/New College)
Timing: Thursdays at 17:00-18:30 (BST)
Organising department: Faculty of History

Talks:

Thursday 25 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

Orienting the Global First Millennium: Iranosphere Perspectives
Date: 25 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Garth Fowden (Cambridge)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Levine Building Auditorium, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 2 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Re-Framing the Umayyad Empire: Pastoralists, Plague, and Peripheries
Date: 2 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Andrew Marsham (Cambridge)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Teaching Room 5, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 9 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Medieval Arabic Literature: What Do You Know, and What Can You Do with It?
Date: 9 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Julia Bray (Oxford)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Teaching Room 5, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

“Behold! Quraysh is praying behind Bakr!” Kharijite Rebellion and Bakri Tribalism from al-Jazira to Iran 7th-9th c.
Date: 16 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Hamburg)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Teaching Room 5, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Connected “Pagans” from Medieval Ethiopia: Monumental and Artifactual Evidence
Date: 23 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Alebachew Belay (Debre Berhan University)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Teaching Room 5, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 May 2024 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

Detecting Irrigation and Desertification in the Middle East and North Africa Since the Medieval Period
Date: 30 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Louise Rayne (Newcastle University)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Teaching Room 5, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 6 June 2024 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

Charlemagne’s Jerusalem: Rhetoric, Exegesis and the Ninth-Century “Holy Land”
Date: 6 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dan Reynolds (Birmingham)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Teaching Room 5, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 13 June 2024 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

Justinian Between East and West
Date: 13 June 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Peter Sarris (Cambridge)
Venue: Trinity College, Broad Street OX1 3BH
Venue Details: Levine Building Auditorium, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark