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
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TBA
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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
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TBA
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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
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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
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TBA
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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
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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:
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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
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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
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TBA
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Editors:
Laura Spence,
Belinda Clark