The Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies seminars combine select sessions of the Classics, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and History of Christianity Research seminars with the Byzantine Studies seminars. Everyone is welcome to attend. For more information, contact the convenor: Dr Lucy Grig (Lucy.Grig@ed.ac.uk) Semester 1 2024/25 Tue 17 SepMike Carr (Edinburgh)‘Trade and diplomacy between Christians and Muslims in the later medieval Mediterranean: perspectives from the papal archives IMES Research Seminar’1 pm, Project Room 1.06, 50 George SquareWed 18 SepCLAIBS Welcome Event 2024/5 (Late Antique Lunch) 1pm, G.13, Doorway 4, Old Medical SchoolWed 18 SepHan Baltussen (Adelaide/IASH)‘Eunapius’ use of theios in his Lives of Philosophers and Sophists (VPS): special, superhuman or ‘divine’?’ Classics Research Seminar 5:10pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical SchoolWed 2 OctLate Antique Lunch 1pm G.13, Doorway 4, Old Medical SchoolWed 2 OctInaugural LectureBen Russell (Edinburgh): ‘Roman sculptors at Work’. 5:10pm Playfair Library, Old CollegeWed 9 OctJoint session: Marios AnastasiadisDavid Lewis and Murdo Homewood (Edinburgh)‘The inside woman: a new solution to the riddle of the endothidia dola (I. Cret. IV 72 II 11–16)’‘Reading Medical Practice in Augustine’s Sermones ad Populum through the image of the Christus medicus’. Classics Research Seminar, 5:10pm Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical SchoolWed 16 OctLate Antique Lunch 1pm, G.13, Doorway 4, Old Medical SchoolWed 30 OctLate Antique Lunch 1pm G.13, Doorway 4, Old Medical SchoolFri 1 NovSir Roderick Beaton (King’s College London), Karen Emmerich (Princeton), Sakis Gekas (York University), Paschalis Kitromilides (Academy of Athens), Michalis Sotiropoulos and Katerina Stergiopoulou (both Edinburgh)‘Perspectives on Modern Greek Studies and an Outlook on their Future at Edinburgh’. Modern Greek Studies Launch event organised by the Department of Classics.15.00 Venue tbcThurs 7 NovMichael Kulikowski (Penn State University)‘Government, bureaucracy, and the writing of history’. Launch lecture for the ‘Last Historians of Rome’ project5pm, Teviot Lecture Theatre, Doorway 5, Old Medical SchoolMon 11 NovPéter Bara (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)‘Leo of Chalkedon: the life and deeds of this metropolitan bishop, holy man, canonist and, indeed, political actor’. CLAIBS Seminar5pm Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical SchoolWed 13 NovLate Antique Lunch 1pm, G.13, Doorway 4, Old Medical SchoolMon 18 NovMike Carr, Gianluca Raccagni, Kirsty Day, Nikolaos Chrissis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)Roundtable discussion and book launch of Crusading against Christians in the Middle Ages. CMRS Seminar. 4:15pm, Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building, George SquareSun 24-Tue 26 NovWorkshop, organised by Niels Gaul and Martin Hinterberger (University of Cyprus)‘Neophytos Enkleistos’s Testamentary Typikon: Manuscript, Text(s), Contexts’. A. G. Leventis Gallery, Nicosia – see event website for details Mon 25 NovAnna Kelley (St Andrews)Title tba. CLAIBS Seminar. 5pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical SchoolWed 27 NovLate Antique Lunch 1pm, G.13, Doorway 4, Old Medical School This article was published on 2024-08-01
