The Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies seminar series combines CLAIBS-sponsored events and the Byzantine Studies Research seminar with select sessions of the Classics; Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies; Islam and Muslim-Christian Relations; History of Christianity; and History of Art Research seminars. Everyone is welcome to attend. For more information, contact Professor Niels Gaul (N.Gaul@ed.ac.uk). Semester 2 2024/25DateSpeakerTopicVenueTues 13 JanCaliphal Finances Team (IMES)‘“They have come to a place where there is no one who can read them.” The many lives of the Aberdeen papyri from Egypt to Python’ IMES Research Seminar with CLAIBS Seminar5:15pm, Project Room, 50 George SquareThu 15 JanLate Antique Lunch 1pmTue 27 JanGrégoire Sommers (Laboratoire d’études sur les rhétoriques [LERH], Conthey)‘The philological and rhetorical commentaries of Neophytos the Recluse on the rhetorical-sophistic theory of Michael Psellos’ CLAIBS Seminar, sponsored by the ‘Rock-cut Architecture and Christian Communities in Turkey, from Antiquity to 1923’ (RACCTURK) project5:10pm, Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Doorway 1, Old Medical SchoolWed 28 JanSimon Loynes(IMES)‘From esoteric communication to verbatim revelation: The conspicuous absence of the root w-ḥ-y in the schematics of revelation in medieval tafsīr’ IMES Research Seminar with CLAIBS Seminar1pm, Project Room, 50 George SquareThu 29 JanLate Antique Lunch 1pmTue 10 FebNik Matheou(HCA)‘Crisis of accumulation in the Chinggisid world order: Land, capital and fiscal administration inIlkhanid Ani, 1256–1335’ IMES Research Seminar with CLAIBS Seminar5:15pm, Project Room, 50 George SquareThu 12 FebPanagiotis A. Agapitos (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz)‘Editing the Vita Apollonii: incompetent Byzantine scribes or threedimensional architectures of textual history?’ CLAIBS Seminar with Classics Research Seminar, sponsored by the ‘Byzantine authorial/autograph manuscripts: typology, terminology, methodisation’ project5:10pm, G.16 Doorway 4, Old Medical SchoolWed 25 FebCaliphal Finances Team (IMES)‘People and Money: The agents of Abbasid taxation from the village to the caliph’ IMES Research Seminar with CLAIBS Seminar1pm, Project Room, 50 George SquareTue 3 MarShaun Tougher (Cardiff)‘Byzantine bodies: A physical history of the “Macedonian dynasty”’ CLAIBS Seminar 5:10pm, Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Doorway 1, Old Medical SchoolThu 5 MarLate Antique Lunch 1pmTue 10 MarCaliphal Finances Team (IMES)‘Accounting practices in the multilingual administration of the Abbasid era’ IMES Research Seminar with CLAIBS Seminar5:15pm, Project Room, 50 George SquareTue 17 MarBaukje van den Berg (Central European University Vienna)‘The voice in Byzantine literary thought’ Byzantine Studies Seminar with Classics Research Seminar5:10pm, Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical SchoolThu 19 MarLate Antique Lunch 1pmWed 25 MarStefano Nicastro(HCA)‘The Port of al-Iskandarīyya: The physical infrastructures and administrative roles of theMamluk Dīwān and the Genoese funduq in shaping Egyptian-Genoese commerce andinteractions (twelfth–fifteenth centuries)’ IMES Research Seminar with CLAIBS Seminar1pm, Project Room, 50 George SquareThu 2 AprLate Antique Lunch 1pmWed 22-Thu 23 Apr6th CLAIBS Graduate Conference‘Shifting fortunes in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages’ Keynote speaker: Krystina Kubina (Austrian Academy of Sciences)Details TBCThu 18 & Fri 19 JuneWorkshop, organised by Niels Gaul and Panagiotis Agapitos (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz)‘Byzantine authorial/autograph manuscripts: typology, terminology, methodisation’Details TBCWed 24 JuneDavid FrankfurterTBCTBC Follow the School You can keep up with the latest School news, events and developments by following us on Instagram, Bluesky and Facebook. The School also has a blog, and an Eventbrite account. Instagram Bluesky Facebook School blog Eventbrite Find out what else is onThe School of History, Classics and Archaeology offers an exciting programme of seminars across many subjects areas. Visit the research seminars website to find out what else is happening. Research seminars and events calendar This article was published on 2024-08-01
