Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar

Wednesdays at 17:00 (UK Time)

Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles, unless otherwise stated, and online via Microsoft Teams here: msteams.link/FW0C

All welcome!
Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Marc Lauxtermann, Ida Toth
Timing: Wednesdays at 17:00 (UK Time)

Talks:

Wednesday 30 April 2025

Selecting, Arranging, Dressing and Aging the Saints in Ravenna’s S. Apollinare Nuovo
Date: 30 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Bryan Ward-Perkins (Trinity College, Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 7 May 2025

Tepekozis: A Medieval Cyclops Story in Pharasiot (Asia Minor Greek)
Date: 7 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Mark Janse (Ghent)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 14 May 2025

Pro Meliori et pro Utilitate Terre: Venetian Crete and the Exploitation of the post-Byzantine Aegean
Date: 14 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Lorenzo Saccon (Wolfson College, Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 21 May 2025

Rhetoric and Reality in the Imperial Orations of Niketas Choniates
Date: 21 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Alicia Simpson (American College of Greece)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 28 May 2025

The Empire of Trebizond: The State of Research and Possible Future Directions
Date: 28 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Rustam Shukurov (IMAFO, Vienna)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 June 2025

John Tzetzes and the Heritage of Hephaistion: Transmission, Critique, and Innovation in Byzantine Treatises on Metrics
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Giuseppe Mendicino (Milan)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and onlin via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 11 June 2025

“The Last Byzantine Controversy” — Politics, Rhetoric, and Religion from the Council of Ferrara-Florence to the Fall of Constantinople
Date: 11 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : John-Francis Martin (Oriel College, Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 18 June 2025

Special OCBR lecture - The Emergence of Fiction: Byzantium and the East
Date: 18 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Marc Lauxtermann (Exeter College, Oxford)
Venue: 66 St Giles', 66 St Giles' OX1 3LU
Venue Details: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, and online via Microsoft Teams
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark