Byzantine Studies seminars *INCLUDE*
Explore research around rich cultures in a seminal period of world history with the Byzantine Studies seminars. Everyone is welcome to attend.
Time and location
The Byzantine Studies seminars take place throughout the year, and are open to all. Events usually start at 5:15pm, unless otherwise noted.
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Venue |
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Monday 27 Jan |
Olivier Delouis (Paris) |
‘Preaching is a performing art (as demonstrated by Theodore the Stoudite, AD 759–826)’ |
7.18, David Hume Tower |
| Monday 17 Feb | Dimitrios Skrekas (Oxford) | ‘Neophytos, Bishop of Grevena: A less known author of the15th century’ | CANCELLED 7.18, David Hume Tower |
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Monday 16 Mar |
Kirsty Stewart (Edinburgh) |
‘“Whiter than crystal” – Ideals and realities of beauty in Byzantium’ | CANCELLED 7.18, David Hume Tower |
| Monday 23 Mar | Péter Bara (University of Szeged) | 'Leo of Chalcedon: The network, paideia, and miracles of an Early Komnenian metropolitan' | CANCELLED 7.18, David Hume Tower |
Semester 1 2019/20
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday 18 Sept | Francisco Lopez-Santos Kornberger (Birmingham) | ‘History (and the frontier) as literature in eleventh-century Byzantine historical accounts’ | [PAIXUE Research Meeting] 2.00-4.00pm |
| Monday 30 Sept | Marc Lauxtermann (Oxford) | ‘“As though from India itself”: Storytelling in Byzantium’ | Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Doorway 1, Old Medical School |
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Mon 21 Oct |
Ivan Drpić (Pennsylvania) |
‘A therapy for the soul: On the devotional use of enkolpia’ | 4.18 David Hume Tower |
| Wednesday 20 Nov | Niels Gaul (Edinburgh) | ‘Byzantium and Scotland’ (Inaugural Lecture for the A. G. Leventis Chair in Byzantine Studies) | Screening Room, 50 George Square |
| Friday 22 Nov | Averil Cameron (Oxford) | Part of the 3rd Annual Edinburgh International Graduate Conference in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies | |
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Saturday 23 Nov |
Jack Tannous (Princeton) | Part of the 3rd Annual Edinburgh International Graduate Conference in Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies | |
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Wednesday 27 Nov CANCELLED |
Elizabeth Jeffreys (Oxford) | ‘From Homer to Digenis Akritis: epics on the Byzantine frontier’ [Classical Association of Scotland in association with PAIXUE] |
6.00pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School CANCELLED |
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Thursday-Saturday, 12–14 Dec |
'Classicising learning, performance, and power: Eurasian perspectives from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period' - Registration required |
Convened by Petros Bouras-Vallianatos, Jim Crow, Niels Gaul, Foteini Spingou, Yannis Stouraitis
Find out what else is on
The School of History, Classics and Archaeology offers an exciting programme of seminars across many subjects areas. Visit the research seminars website to find out what else is happening.