Oxford Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies and Microsoft Teams, Wednesdays, 5:00 pm (UK)

The Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar is convened by Ine Jacobs, Ida Toth, and Yuhan Vevaina. This term the seminar will focus on Byzantium in Dialogue with China, the Iranian and Arab Worlds.

Schedule

January 17: How Zoroastrians Debated Muslims in the Early Islamic Period
Christian Sahner (University of Oxford)

January 24: The Byzantine Craft of Enamelling and Its Links with Islamic Metalwork, c. 800–1204
Natalija Ristovska (University of Oxford)

January 31: The 'Timeless Empire': Sasanian Iconography as a Historical Source
Michael Shankar (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

February 7: Festive Discipline and Punishment in a Global Late Antiquity: The Iranian Political Sensorium as an Afro-Eurasian Technology of Power
Matt Canapé (University of California, Irvine)

February 14: Automated Dialogues: Diplomacy, Technology, and Power in Late Antique and Medieval Eurasia
Alessia Zubani University of Oxford)

February 21: PAIXUE Byzantine and Tang/Song literati culture
Niels Gaul (University of Edinburgh)

February 28: Elite captives and defectors between Roman and Sasanian Iran. A prosopographical approach 

March 6: Byzantine Medicine in Light of the Global Middle Ages: Current Trends and Future Avenues
Petros Bouras-Valliantos (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens)