Seminars
Thursdays
After Rome and Further East Seminar
Convenors: Fanny Bessard, Phil Booth, Christian Sahner, Yuhan Vevaina
Time: Thursdays, 5pm [NB Tuesday 5pm for Jack Tannous in W3]
Venue: Lecture Room 4, New College [NB Lecture Room 6 for Jack Tannous in W3]
(W1) 1st May
Jaś Elsner (Corpus Christi) (in collaboration with the Khalili Research Centre)
Title: The Double-Sided Object: Reflections on the Sculptures of the Great Stupa at Amarāvatī
(W2) 8th May
Alexander Sherborne (Magdalen)
Title: Georgian Literature: A New Frontier for Writing Medieval History
(W3) Tuesday 13th May
Jack Tannous (Princeton)
Title: From Syriac to Arabic: Attempts at an Overview
(W4) 22nd May
Silvio Roggo (Frankfurt)
Title: The Frankfurt project “Commentary on John of Ephesos’ Ecclesiastical History”: New discoveries
(W5) 29th May
Anna Sitz (Tübingen) (in collaboration with the Khalili Research Centre)
Title: Inscriptions between Epigraphy, Archaeology, and History: The Reuse of the “Pagan” Past in Late Antiquity (Fourth to Seventh Centuries CE)
(W6) 5th June
Muriel Debié (Paris)
Title: Geopolitics and Geo-ecclesiology in the Seventh Century: The Last Roman-Sasanian War viewed by the Syriac Christians
(W7) 12th June
Khodadad Rezakhani (Leiden)
Title: The Sasanian Grand Strategy: State, Economy and War in the Sixth and Seventh Century West Asia
(W8) 19th June
Agata Deptuła (Warsaw)
Title: “Chanting and Singing a Hymn of Praise”: Early Greek Hymnography in Medieval Nubia
