After Rome and Further East Seminar (Trinity Term, 2026)
Convenors: Phil Booth, Christian Sahner, Yuhan Vevaina
Time: Thursdays, 5pm
Venue: Dorfman Centre, St Peter’s College
(W1) 30th April
Adrian Pirtea (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Title: From Damascus to Spain: The Maronite Chronicle of 713 and its Mediterranean Context
(W2) 7th May
Jack Tannous (Princeton)
Title: Lost Worlds: Syriac Literature between the Roman, Sasanian, and Islamic Empires
(W3) Tuesday 14th May
Ab de Jong (Leiden)
Title: Late Sasanian Zoroastrianism and the Meaning of Iran(ian)
(W4) 21st May
Thibaut Auplat (Aix-Marseilles)
Title: Laughter in Christian-Muslim Polemics from John of Damascus to Theodore Abū Qurra: Literary Strategies and Shifting Views of Islam
(W5) 28th May
Yael Kremer (Oxford University)
Title: A Society in Search of a Holy Mother: Female Sanctity in Late Ancient Christian Mesopotamia
(W6) 4th June
Joanna Wegner (Warsaw)
Title: Egyptian Clerics outside the Church: Social and Economic Status of the Clergy in the Fourth–Eighth Century
(W7) 11th June
No seminar.
Attendees of the seminar are invited to attend the workshop
‘Paganism in Late Antique Arabia: Dead or Alive at the Rise of Islam?’ at Pembroke College. To register, please contact
christian.sahner@ames.ox.ac.uk
(W8) 18th June
Teresa Bernheimer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich/New College)
Title: Tombstones and the Early History of Islam
