Material Religion in Byzantium and Beyond, 54th SPBS Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Corpus Christi College & All Souls College, Oxford and Zoom, March 17–19, 2023

The 54th Annual Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies will be held in Oxford on the theme of Material Religion in Byzantium and Beyond. The Symposium brings together Byzantine studies with a series of innovative approaches to the material nature and realities of religion – foregrounding the methodological, historical and archaeological problems of studying religion through visual and material culture. Taking a broad geographical and chronological view of the Byzantine world, the Symposium will range across Afro-Eurasia and from Antiquity to the period after the fall of Constantinople. Sessions will be arranged around the themes of ‘Objects in motion’, ‘Religion in 3D’, ‘Religious landscapes’, ‘Things without context’, ‘Things and their context’ and ‘Spatial approaches to religion’.

The Symposium will be hybrid, taking place at Oxford – Corpus Christi College and All Souls College –, and on Zoom.

Symposiarchs: Ine Jacobs, Julia Smith, Jaś Elsner

PROGRAM

Advance registration required.