Oxford University Byzantine Society’s XVII International Graduate Conference

Oxford University Byzantine Society’s XVII International Graduate Conference

(Oxford,  27th-28th February)

Conference Poster

Timetable

Conference Fees
OUBS members/speakers: £15

Non-OUBS members: £20

The fees will cover your conference packs; lunch, coffee, tea and biscuits for the two days and the evening wine receptions.


Booking and Paying
If you wish to register for the conference, please send an email to byzantine.society@gmail.com. We will then record your name and collect the money on the day. It is possible to come without per-registering, however it will make your experience smoother if you do contact us beforehand.

Travel
Details for how to get to Oxford can be found here, and a downloadable map with all the necessary sites can be found here. There is a bus from every airport, usually running every 15-30mins, although this varies, so please do check in advance of travelling. There is also a bus from London Victoria which runs every 10-15mins, and around three direct trains per hour from London Paddington. A map with the History Faculty on it can be found here.

Welcome Drinks
We will be having some welcome drinks for everybody on Thursday 26th February. These will take place in The Chequers pub on the High Street from 7:30pm onwards. Please come along and meet everyone before the conference. Please find the location of the pub here.

Bourse – Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

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  Israel in Egypt/Egypt in Israel:  

An investigation of the land of Egypt as concept and reality for the Jews in Antiquity and the early medieval period.

(January to June 2016)

Visiting Fellowships available either one term (minimum 8 weeks) or two terms (6 months), so Jan-March, or April-June, or Jan-June, in accordance with Oxford term times. See info below and contact the organizers whose addresses are listed at the end of the advert.

This Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies ‘Israel in Egypt’ project addresses a number of questions about identity and belonging among Egyptian Jews over the course of one and a half millennia.

Project Leaders:
Dr Alison Salvesen (OCHJS and University of Oxford)
Prof. Sarah Pearce (University of Southampton)
Dr Miriam Frenkel (Hebrew University, Jerusalem)
Dr Dorothy Peters (Trinity Western University, Canada)

Read more about the Israel in Egypt project
Please download the Application form andApplication procedure by clicking on the links.

Appel à contribution – The Oxford University Byzantine Society’s XVII International Graduate Conference

Call for Papers

 THE OXFORD UNIVERSITY BYZANTINE SOCIETY’S XVII INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE CONFERENCE

 Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Byzantine World, c. 300-c.1500

 27th February – 28th February 2015, University of Oxford

 

Byzantium, in all its forms, was an influential society, drawing many different peoples into its sphere. This influence, however, was neither one-way nor top-down. Cultures from beyond the borders of the Empire also impacted on life within it. Interaction and exchange between cultures was both direct and indirect, spanning from Scandinavia, Latin Europe, Africa and into the Islamic world and the Eurasian steppe. Learning, not exclusively classical knowledge, passed not only from culture to culture but from generation to generation; migration and settlement as well as trade and direct conflict all brought different communities into contact throughout the Mediterranean and beyond. What followed could include the translation of literature, the mimesis of art and architecture and religious conversions, as well as the practical adoption of customs, clothing and foods. The Roman Empire, its continuator in the Eastern Mediterranean and all the successor states were deeply involved in all manner of cross-cultural exchanges throughout their existences.

We are calling for papers which explore all possible approaches towards these issues, in all fields of Late Antique and Byzantine studies and beyond, including history, archaeology, history of art, theology, literature, intellectual history, and philology.

Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words, along with a short academic biography in the third person, to the Oxford University Byzantine Society at byzantine.society@gmail.com by Friday, 28th November 2014. Papers should be 20 minutes in length, and may be delivered in English or French.

As with our previous two conferences, there will be a publication of selected on-theme and inter-related papers, chosen and reviewed by specialist readers from the University of Oxford’s Late Antique and Byzantine Studies department. Any speakers wishing to have their papers considered for publication should try to be as on-theme as possible in their abstract and paper. Nevertheless, all submissions are warmly invited.

 More details will be sent to successful submissions soon after the deadline. Subject to funding, the OUBS hopes to offer subsidised accommodation for visiting speakers.

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Proposition d’emploi – Université d’Oxford

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Regius Professorship of Greek

in association with Christ Church

 Start date: 1 October 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter.

A Regius Professor of Greek is due to be appointed by Her Majesty the Queen at the University of Oxford with effect from 1 October 2015 or as soon as possible thereafter. The Professor will have a high international profile in the study of Greek language and literature, together with broad intellectual interests and sympathies, enabling her or him to enhance the global standing of the Faculty of Classics in research and to develop interdisciplinary connections within Oxford and beyond. She or he will offer academic leadership, engage in world-class research, and promote a culture of obtaining research funding among colleagues and graduate students. She or he will play a central role in graduate teaching and examining and will locate her or himself at the heart of graduate activities in the Faculty; she or he will also make important contributions to undergraduate teaching. She or he will contribute, as appropriate, to the Faculty’s development initiatives and to its active programme of outreach in schools and the wider community.

 Deadline for applications: Monday 8 December 2014. For more details about the post and full application instructions, see here.

  Applications are particularly welcome from women and black and minority ethnic candidates, who are under-represented in academic posts in Oxford.

 The University of Oxford is committed to equality and values diversity

Colloque de doctorants — The City and the cities à Oxford

The City and the cities: From Constantinople to the frontier

The Oxford University Byzantine Society’s

XVI International Graduate Conference

28th February – 1st March 2014, History Faculty, University of Oxford

 

The Classical Roman Empire has been described as an ‘empire of cities’, and both the reality and ideal of civic life remain central to its late-Antique and Medieval successor. Indeed, the term ‘Byzantine’ itself shows the importance placed by scholars on Constantine I’s refounding of Byzantion as the New Rome. Yet in 330 A.D. Constantinople was part of an urban landscape which included other, more ancient civic centres, whilst by 1453 A.D. little else remained but the City, itself a collection of villages and the Theodosian walls the frontier. Across this Byzantine millennium Constantinople was inextricably linked to the other cities of the empire, from the Golden Horn to the ever-shifting frontiers. With the apparent seventh-century disappearance of city-life in the broad new Anatolian borderlands, the strength of the Greek mainland in the twelfth century, and the rise of post-Byzantine cities in the old western frontiers of southern Italy and Venice, the vicissitudes of urban life in the empire are undoubtedly linked to each moment of change. Constantinopolitan artistic and architectural forms are fleshed in the local materials of Ravenna in the sixth century, and in the eleventh and twelfth centuries provincially-born men, educated in the City, become the bright lights of the so-called Komnenian Renaissance. Yet how are we to understand this dialectic between the City, the cities, and the imperial frontier? Moreover, what are the methodologies and conceptual frameworks which we might use to approach these issues?

We are calling for papers which explore the myriad approaches towards these issues, in all fields of Late Antique and Byzantine studies, including history, archaeology, history of art, theology, literature, intellectual history, and philology. Possible themes might include:

 – Constantinople’s Place in the Empire

 – The Changing Urban Landscape

 – Civic and Provincial Art

 – The Bishops and the Cities

 – Civic and Provincial Intellectual Life

 – The Civic Ideal and Imperial Citizenship

 – Garrisoning the Cities, Guarding the Frontiers

Please send an abstract of no more than 250 words, along with a short academic biography in the third person, to the Oxford University Byzantine Society at byzantine.society@gmail.com by Friday, 29th November 2013. Papers should be 20 minutes in length, and may be delivered in English or French. For the first time the publication is in process of a selection of on-theme and inter-related papers from last year’s conference, having been chosen and reviewed by specialised readers from the University of Oxford’s Late Antique and Byzantine Studies department. We intend to do the same this year, and so any speakers wishing to have their papers considered for publication should try to be as on-theme as possible in their abstract and paper. Nevertheless, all submissions are warmly invited. More details will be sent to successful submissions soon after the deadline. Subject to funding, the OUBS hopes to offer subsidised accommodation for visiting speakers.