Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar, Oxford University via Zoom, Mondays, 12:30–2:00 pm (BST)

The Oxford Byzantine Graduate Seminar is designed to showcase the breadth of graduate research in modern Late Antique and Byzantine Studies and to foster academic collaboration across institutions and sub-disciplines. 

The Seminar will take place weekly on Mondays at 12.30-14.00 (UK) via Zoom. The speaker will present for 40-45 minutes, followed by audience questions and discussion.

Please direct any queries to the co-organiser James Cogbill. To register, please contact james.cogbill[at]worc.ox.ac.uk.

Schedule

April 24: Prolet Decheva (University College Dublin)
Late Antique Personifications of Abstract Ideas and Elite Identity

May 1: Paul Ulishney (University of Oxford
The Crisis of the Chalcedonian Episcopate in Egypt, c. 652-c. 710 

May 8: Valeria Annunziata (La Sapienza Università di Roma)
Challenging Authorities: How and Why Byzantine Scholars Emended Classical and Authoritative Texts 

May 15: Benjamin Morris (Cardiff University)
Against All Men’: The Movement of Military Service in Byzantine and English Treaties, 900-1200 

May 22: Emily Chesley (Princeton University)
Collateral Damage: Eastern Women’s Experiences in the Roman-Persian Wars, 4th-6th Centuries

May 29: Ben Morris No paper
"Against All Men": The Movement of Military Service in Byzantine and English Treaties, 900-1200

June 5: Peter Boudreau (McGill University))
Keeping Time in Byzantium: Temporal Imagery and Thought in the Calendars of Later Byzantium 

June 12: Jack Dooley (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Between the ‘self’ and the ‘other’: the case of the gasmouloi in Late Byzantium 

June 19: Rachel Catherine Patt (Princeton University)
From Pliny’s Potter to Proclus’ Vision: Tracing the Role of Pothos in Byzantine Visual Culture