Hilary Term 2012

Full seminar listings for the term can be downloaded as a PDF document: Hilary 2012.

Events in the next seven days:

Week 3

Medieval History seminar
Patrick Lantschner, 'The foundations of political organisation in late medieval cities: urban systems of conflict and their logic'
Monday 5pm, Wharton Room, All Souls College

Europe in the Later Middle Ages
Maya Corry, 'Gender ambiguity and the Leonardesque youth in Renaissance Milan'
Tuesday 5pm, Rainolds Room, Corpus Christi College

Late Antique and Byzantine Seminar
Andrew Marsham, 'God's Caliph Revisited: Authority in the Umayyad Caliphate'
Tuesday 5pm, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies

Medieval Church and Culture Seminar. The theme for term is Parents and Children
Heather O'Donoghue, 'Moses in Iceland: miracle story, fairytale or infanticide?'
Tuesday 5pm, Carpenter Room, Harris Manchester College

Medieval French Seminar
Catherine Croizy-Na, 'Les chroniqueurs de croisade: de l'auteur de l'Estoire de la guerre sainte à Joinville'
Tuesday 5pm, Maison Française

Medieval German Seminar
Workshop, 'Medieval German Visions of the Other World'
Wednesday 11am, St Edmund Hall, Chough Room

Medieval English Research Seminar
Dr Helen Brookman, ''Perhaps Miss Jessie is not an expert in these matters': The Arthurian Arguments of Jessie L. Weston and Robert Steele'
Wednesday 5.15pm, The History of the Book Room, St Cross Building

Late Antique and Byzantine Archaeology and Art Seminar - Water Networks: seas, rivers, islands, aqueduct, 'hagiasma'
Marlena Whiting, 'A river runs through it: the role of the Euphrates, Tigris and Orontes in transport and communication in Late Antiquity'
Thursday 11am, New Seminar Room, St John's College

Celtic Seminar
Dr Alderik Blom, 'The study of Celtic in unlikely places - Rasmus Rask in nineteenth-century Denmark'
Thursday 3pm, Carpenter Room, Harris Manchester College

Aquinas Seminars: Thomas Aquinas and Contemporary Culture
David Albert Jones, 'Aquinas as an Advocate of Abortion? The Appeal to Thomas Aquinas in Contemporary Bioethical Debates on the Human Embryo'
Thursday 4.30pm, The Aula Blackfriars, 64 St Giles

The Later Roman Empire
Andrew Marsham, 'Execution with Fire in Late Antiquity and Early Islam'
Thursday 5pm, Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College

Medieval Latin Reading Group
Workshop, 'Gregory the Great's Vita Sancti Benedicti'
Friday 2pm, Grove Seminar Room, Magdalen College

Anglo-Norman Reading Group
Ilya Afanasyev, 'An Early French 'Prose History of the Kings of England''
Friday 5pm, Platnauer Room, Brasenose College