Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar Series
Autumn 2025
Celebrating the Elite: Personifications of abstract ideas in the late antique Greek East Wednesday, 8 October, 5:00pm In-person | J004, Rosemarie Mulcahy Seminar Room, Newman Building |
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- 15 Nov 2024: Evan Freeman (Hellenic Canadian Congress of BC Chair in Hellenic Studies, Simon Fraser University), Art and Ritual Transformations in the Byzantine Divine Liturgy
- 24 Sep 2024: Jaś Elsner (Humfry Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art, Corpus Christi College Oxford), Relief and the Sacred Monument: Entering the Space
- 6 Dec 2023: Anna McSweeney (Trinity College Dublin), "Marvellous building arising from wisdom." Ceilings from the Alhambra Palace, Granada
- 16 Nov 2023: Mattia Guidetti (Università di Bologna), The fate of churches in the aftermath of the Islamic conquest of Syria
- 26 Sep 2022: Finbarr Barry Flood (New York University), From Solomon’s Library to the Louvre: Genealogies of an Islamic Magic-Medicinal Bowl
- 24 May 2022: Fabian Stroth (Freiburg), Slouching towards Byzantium: What do we really know about the Church of St. Polyeuktos in Constantinople?
- 3 May 2022: Ivana Jevtić (Koç Üniversitesi, Istanbul, South annex of the Kalenderhane mosque (the Church of the Virgin Kyriotissa) in Istanbul and its frescoes
- 19 Apr 2022: Shannon Steiner (Binghamton), Clever with their hands: Artistic virtuosity as an instrument of Byzantine imperial power
- 5 Apr 2022: Paweł Nowakowski (Warsaw), Parallel universes or shared environment? Testing different scenarios for the co-existence of Greek and Syriac epigraphies in early Byzantium
- 1 Mar 2022: Vera-Simone Schulz (KHI Florence), Architecture, objects, and ornamentation: Transmaterial dynamics between the Middle East, East Africa and the Mediterranean
- 8 Feb 2022: Mohan Deng (Dublin), Who can lead the Church? The crowd and episcopal leadership in Theodoret’s Ecclesiastical History
- 30 Nov 2021: Rebecca Usherwood (Trinity College Dublin), Did Christians erase the names of their persecutors? The case of North Africa
- 9 Nov 2021: Nigel Westbrook (University of Western Australia), The city within the city: The Great Palace within the context of Byzantine Constantinople
- 26 Oct 2021: Alice Isabella Sullivan (Tufts University), Cladding the sacred in Byzantium and beyond
- 5 Oct 2021: Mikael Muehlbauer (Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), An Ethiopian “Constantine” in the 12th century: The architecture of the early Zagwe dynasty and monumental ruins