Late Antique & Byzantine Studies Seminars
Seminars will be held at 5.30 on alternate Tuesdays at the Strand Campus in Room B6 of the North Wing (Classics Department).
Semester 2
Tuesday 24 January 2012
Piotr Grotowski (Krakow): Sicily of the North? Orthodox painters in the royal service of the first Jagiellonians
Tuesday 7 February 2012
Maja Kominko (Oxford): Illlumination in Syriac manuscripts - who dunnit?
Tuesday 28 February 2012
Eleni Dimitriadou (London): Art and ceremonial in middle Byzantine Constantinople: The case of the southwest vestibule mosaic of Hagia Sophia
Tuesday 13 March 2012
Rowena Loverance (London): An Edwardian Elgin? Harold Peto's Byzantine marbles
Tuesday 27 March 2012 ***CANCELLED***
Antonio Rigo (Venice): Palamas' theology of mystical experience: patristic and philosophical background of the concept of vision
Seminar organized with the Department of Philosophy
Previous Seminars
Tuesday 4 October 2011
Alessandra Bucossi (KCL): A Latin theologian at the Constantinopolitan court: the intriguing case of Hugo Eteriano
Tuesday 18 October 2011
Rembrandt Duits (Warburg): A Byzantine icon in Florence: the Bargello
Tuesday 1 November 2011
Mihailo Popovic (Vienna): New insights into the history of Balkan fairs in the historical region of Macedonia (13th-16th centuries)
Tuesday 22 November 2011
Marek Jankowiak (Oxford): From Orthodoxy to heresy: why was Monotheletism condemned?
Tuesday 6 December 2011
Ioannis Stouraitis (Vienna): Byzantine conceptions of warfare in the time of the Crusades: Holy war?