School of Archaeology Calendar

14/02/12 (13:00 - 14:00) Ancient Maritime Worlds

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:17:01 +0000

Anchors outside the Mediterranean (until c. AD1500)
Greg Votruba, Oxford

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

14/02/12 (14:30 - 15:30) Topics in Ancient Near Eastern Studies & Egyptology

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:01:41 +0000

Traveling the Egyptian Desert: means of transport and locomotion in the desert

Heidi Köpp, Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am ägyptologischen Institut Trier

Lecture Room 1, The Oriental Institute

14/02/12 (14:30 - 16:30) Jewish History & Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:18:06 +0000

The significance of GReek translation of non-canonical works
James Aitken, Cambridge

The Oriental Institute

14/02/12 (15:00 - 16:00) Archaeobotany Discussion Group

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:23:59 +0000

Saxon cereal cultivation: interim results from the Thames Valley

Mark McKerracher, University of Oxford

(location to be confirmed)

14/02/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Late Antique & Byzantine Seminar

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:39:36 +0000

Sultan and Emperor: means and ends of diplomatic rapprochement between Byzantium and the Seljuks (11th & 14th centuries)
Dimitri Korobeinikov, Russian Academy of the Sciences, Moscow

Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies

14/02/12 (17:00 - 18:30) Graduate Seminar: the Qur'an & Late Antiquity

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:29:38 +0000

Monothesism and the mushrikun
Nicolai Sinai

The Oriental Institute

15/02/12 (13:00 - 14:00) Roman Discussion Forum

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:48:30 +0000

Quo vardis, terra sigillata? Analyzing samiam trade patterns in the north-western Roman provinces
Meike Weber, University of Reading

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

15/02/12 (16:30 - 18:00) Patristics Seminar

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:23:51 +0000

Ad fontes: new papyri of Romans and other resources of interest from the earliest Christian centuries
Scott Carroll - Green Collection and Green Scholars Initiative

Room 2, Stair 8, Christ Church

15/02/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Asian Archaeology, Art & Culture Seminar

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:41:15 +0000

Mongolia's Archaeological Heritage: Old & New Approaches to Understanding "Nomadic" Empires

Daniel Waugh, University of Washington

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

15/02/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Slade Lectures 2012

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:25:43 +0000

The Empire of Things: Gifts and Gift Exchange in Byantium, Early Islam, and Beyond
"The Objects of Gift (2)"
Anthony Cutler, Pennsylvania State University

University Museum of Natural History

16/02/12 (11:00 - 12:30) Late Antique & Byzantine Archaeology & Art Seminar

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:49:12 +0000

Byzantine Naxos: how art can inform medieval landscape studies

Professor Jim Crow, Edinburgh

New Seminar Room, St. John's College

16/02/12 (13:00 - 14:00) Greek Archaeology Group

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:39:39 +0000

New Lights on teh Potter's Work: the case of the Group of the Negro Alabastra

Isabelle ALgrain, University of Oxford

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

16/02/12 (17:00 - 18:30) Palaeolithic & Quartenary Seminar

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:49:04 +0000

Late Pleistocene to Mid-Holocene settlement of sub-coastal uplands in northern Vietnam - Ryan Rabett, University of Cambridge

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

16/02/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Late Roman Seminar

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:40:50 +0000

The Delights of Claudian
Clare Coombe, Reading

Seminar Room, Corpus Christi

17/02/12 - 18/02/12 Oxford Byzantine Society Annual Conference 2012

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:35:30 +0000

Reality and Illusion: Seeing through the 'Byzantine Mirage'

History Faculty, George Street

20/02/12 (14:00 - 15:30) Khalili Research Centre Graduate Seminar

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:55:36 +0000

Coinages on the Umayyad fringes - Maghrib and Mashriq
Trent Jonson

Khalili Research Centre Lecture Room

20/02/12 (15:00 - 16:00) Medieval Archaeology Seminar

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:58:51 +0000

The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Tranmere House (Sutton Hoo)
Chris Fern

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

20/02/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Classical Archaeology Seminar

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:39:07 +0000

Miletos
Thale or Hippodamus? Agora and townplanning if Miletos before and after the Persian Wars
Alexander Herda, University of Tübingen

Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies

20/02/12 (19:00 - 20:00) Oxford University Archaeological Society

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:15:00 +0000

The Silk Road and Excavations at Merv, Turkmenistan

Tim Williams, UCL

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

21/02/12 (13:00 - 14:00) Prehistoric & Early Greece Graduate Seminar

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 15:00:32 +0000

Greek trade in the West? New finds and chronologies in the Iberian Peninsula
Eleftheria Pappa, Vu University, Amsterdam

Seminar Room, Institute of Archaeology

21/02/12 (14:30 - 15:30) Topics in Ancient Near Eastern Studies & Egyptology

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:03:01 +0000

The Temple Mount, Jerusalem

Gabriel Barkay, Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv

Lecture Room 1, The Oriental Institute

21/02/12 (14:30 - 16:30) Jewish History & Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:19:11 +0000

Omissions in the textual transmission of the Hebrew Bible
Juha Pakkala, Helsinki

The Oriental Institute

21/02/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Late Antique & Byzantine Seminar

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:40:46 +0000

Political Loyalties in the Late Medieval Eastern Mediterranean
Catherine Holmes, University College

Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies

21/02/12 (17:00 - 18:30) Graduate Seminar: the Qur'an & Late Antiquity

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:31:13 +0000

Jewish Christianity and the Qur'an
Holger Zellentin, Nottingham

The Oriental Institute

22/02/12 (12:00 - 13:00) RLAHA Seminar

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:19:10 +0000

Rapid Climate Changes Recorded in Varved Lake Sediments
Professor Achim Brauer, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam)

A J Herbertson Room, Dyson Perrins Building

22/02/12 (13:00 - 14:00) Roman Discussion Forum

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:49:42 +0000

Vital Form: reassessing the status of ornament in the Roman world
Nicola Barham, University of Chicago

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

22/02/12 (16:00 - 17:00) Graduate Work in Progress Seminar

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:57:52 +0000

(title to be confirmed)

Philippa Buzey-Broomhead

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

22/02/12 (16:30 - 18:00) Patristics Seminar

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:24:41 +0000

Origen and Pelagius
Mark Edwards

Room 2, Stair 8, Christ Church

22/02/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Slade Lectures 2012

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:26:37 +0000

The Empire of Things: Gifts and Gift Exchange in Byantium, Early Islam, and Beyond
"Gifts, Treasures, Rarities"
Anthony Cutler, Pennsylvania State University

University Museum of Natural History

23/02/12 (11:00 - 12:30) Late Antique & Byzantine Archaeology & Art Seminar

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:52:04 +0000

Byzantine crafted goods in the context of overseas artistic and commercial interchange: the case of inlaid vrass doors in Italy and painted glass in Rus' (10th-13th Centuries)

Natalija Ristovska, Exeter

New Seminar Room, St. John's College

23/02/12 (17:00 - 18:30) Palaeolithic & Quartenary Seminar

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:59:45 +0000

TBC - Philip Nigst, University of Cambridge

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

23/02/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Late Roman Seminar

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:42:14 +0000

The Concept of fugo mundi in Ambrose of Milan
Camille Gerzageut, Lyon

Seminar Room, Corpus Christi

24/02/12 (13:00 - 14:00) Medieval Visual Culture Seminar

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:25:33 +0000

Open Discussion - techniques of ivory production and other medieval arts
Anthony Cutler

St. Catherine's College

27/02/12 (14:00 - 15:30) Khalili Research Centre Graduate Seminar

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:56:57 +0000

The small finds from Baysan/Scythopolis
Elias Khamis

Khalili Research Centre Lecture Room

27/02/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Classical Archaeology Seminar

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:40:14 +0000

Aphrodisias
The Basilica at Aphrodisias
Phil Stinson, University of Kansas

Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies

27/02/12 (19:00 - 20:00) Oxford University Archaeological Society

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:16:52 +0000

Refugees, Nazis and Archaeology: A war-time archive from the Institute of Archaeology, Oxford

Sally Crawford and Katharina Ulmschneider, Institute of Archaeology

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

28/02/12 (13:00 - 14:00) Ancient Maritime Worlds

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:18:20 +0000

Ancient Geographies and Modern Archaeology: understanding East Africa 2000 years ago
Mark Horton, University of Bristol

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

28/02/12 (14:30 - 15:30) Topics in Ancient Near Eastern Studies & Egyptology

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:20:41 +0000

Representing Reality in Ancient Assyria

Paul Collins, Assistant Keeper for Ancient Near East, Ashmolean Museum

Lecture Room 1, The Oriental Institute

28/02/12 (14:30 - 16:30) Jewish History & Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:20:11 +0000

Adventures of the Solymoi
Tim Whitmarsh, Corpus Christi College

The Oriental Institute

28/02/12 (15:00 - 16:00) Archaeobotany Discussion Group

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:25:02 +0000

The Central Zagros Archaeological Project

Jade Whitlam, University of Reading

Seminar Room, Institute of Archaeology

28/02/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Late Antique & Byzantine Seminar

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:41:59 +0000

The Economics of Salvation in Late Antiquity and Byzantium
Peter Sarris, Trinity College, Cambridge

Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies

28/02/12 (17:00 - 18:30) Graduate Seminar: the Qur'an & Late Antiquity

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:32:43 +0000

Abraham before and in the Qur'an
Emmanouela Grypeou & Nicolai Sinai

The Oriental Institute

29/02/12 (12:00 - 13:00) RLAHA Seminar

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:29:16 +0000

The Baikal-Hokkaido Archaeology Project - Holocene hunter-gatherers of NE Asia

Dustin White, University of Oxford

29/02/12 (13:00 - 14:00) Roman Discussion Forum

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:51:00 +0000

Hippos-Sussita of the Decapolis: the town plan and architecture of a Roman provincial city
Arthur Segal, University of Haifa

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

29/02/12 (16:30 - 18:00) Patristics Seminar

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:25:24 +0000

Augustine
Ken Wilson

Room 2, Stair 8, Christ Church

29/02/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Asian Archaeology, Art and Culture Seminar

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:40:02 +0000

The evolution of the technology of jade carving in China
Dr Margaret Sax, British Museum

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

29/02/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Slade Lectures 2012

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:27:27 +0000

The Empire of Things: Gifts and Gift Exchange in Byantium, Early Islam, and Beyond
"The Afterlives of Gifts: Entropy and Rebranding"
Anthony Cutler, Pennsylvania State University

University Museum of Natural History

01/03/12 (11:00 - 12:30) Late Antique & Byzantine Archaeology & Art Seminar

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:53:27 +0000

Rivers and wetlands in the economic calculations of the state, the city, the landowner, and the farmer

Archie Dunn, Birmingham

New Seminar Room, St. John's College

01/03/12 (13:00 - 14:00) Greek Archaeology Group

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:40:48 +0000

Homer and the Muses: a sculptural account

Nigel Spivey, University of Cambridge

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

01/03/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Palaeolithic & Quartenary Seminar

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:40:31 +0000

Some current issues in modern human origins research

Chris Stringer, Natural History Museum

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

01/03/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Late Roman Seminar

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:44:35 +0000

Communal hostility and communal resistance in episodes of persecution in North Africa, 180-305
Eric Rebillard, Cornell

Seminar Room, Corpus Christi

05/03/12 (14:00 - 15:30) Khalili Research Centre Graduate Seminar

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:58:03 +0000

Early Islamic administrative documents from Bactria
Arezou Azad

Khalili Research Centre Lecture Room

05/03/12 (15:00 - 16:00) Medieval Archaeology Seminar

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:00:06 +0000

Early SPanish Churches through their Liturgical Sculpture
Isaac Sastre-de Diego

05/03/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Classical Archaeology Seminar

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:42:06 +0000

Pergamon
Pergamon and its Maritime Satellite Elaia: new research on urban space and the territory of Hellenistic capital
Felix Pirson, German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul

Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies

05/03/12 (19:00 - 20:00) Oxford University Archaeological Society

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:17:33 +0000

Social event, venue to be confirmed

06/03/12 (13:00 - 14:00) Prehistoric & Early Greece Graduate Seminar

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:50:11 +0000

Iron production in the Eastern Mediterranean: was Cyprus first?
Joanna Palermo, Oxford

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

06/03/12 (14:30 - 16:30) Jewish History & Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:21:09 +0000

The many portraits of Solomon
Michael Law, Oriental Institute

The Oriental Institute

06/03/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Late Antique & Byzantine Seminar

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:43:36 +0000

Business as Usual? The seals of kommerkiarioi and the Dark Ages of Byzantium
Federico Montinaro, Paris

Ioannou Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies

06/03/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Ancient History Seminar

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:28:39 +0000

Demotic + Greek = Coptic? Bilingualism and bigraphism in Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt
Luigi Prada, The Queen's College

Ioannau Centre for Classical & Byzantine Studies

06/03/12 (17:00 - 18:30) Graduate Seminar: the Qur'an & Late Antiquity

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:33:33 +0000

Qur'anic Law
Guy Stoumsa & Nicolai Sinai

The Oriental Institute

07/03/12 (12:00 - 13:00) RLAHA Seminar

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:30:30 +0000

Breaking the Egg: new perspectives on amino acid racemisation dating

Beatrice Demarchi, University of York

A J Herbertson Room, Dyson Perrins Building

07/03/12 (13:00 - 14:00) Roman Discussion Forum

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:41:28 +0000

Hard truths about the economy of Roman construction - material, technology and scale; or, the trouoble with columns
Janet DeLaine, Oxford

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

07/03/12 (16:00 - 17:00) Graduate Work in Progress Seminar

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:59:21 +0000

The Mid Upper Palaeolithic of Russia and the Ukraine in its European Context

Natasha Reynolds

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

07/03/12 (16:30 - 18:00) Patristics Seminar

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:26:11 +0000

John of Damascus
Scott Ables

Room 2, Stair 8, Christ Church

07/03/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Asian Archaeology, Art and Culture Seminar

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:45:37 +0000

William Gowland and the Art of the Great Mounded Tombs in Japan

Simon Kaner, Sainsbury Institute

Lecture Room, Institute of Archaeology

07/03/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Slade Lectures 2012

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 14:28:14 +0000

The Empire of Things: Gifts and Gift Exchange in Byantium, Early Islam, and Beyond
"Gifts in Theory, Gifts in Practice"
Anthony Cutler, Pennsylvania State University

University Museum of Natural History

08/03/12 (17:00 - 18:30) Palaeolithic & Quartenary Seminar

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:01:45 +0000

TBC - Iza Romanowska, University of Southampton

08/03/12 (17:00 - 18:00) Late Roman Seminar

Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:46:11 +0000

Creating Identity from the Past: the literary construction of history in the Letters of Sidonius
Sigrid Mratschek, Rostock

Seminar Room, Corpus Christi