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 2024/25DateSpeakerTopicVenueMon 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 SquareWed 15 JanLate Antique Lunch 1pmMon 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 SchoolTue 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 SquareWed 29 JanLate Antique Lunch 1pmMon 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 SquareWed 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 SchoolTues 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 SquareMon 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 SchoolWed 5 MarLate Antique Lunch 1pmMon 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 SquareMon 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 SchoolWed 19 MarLate Antique Lunch 1pmTue 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 SquareWed 2 AprLate Antique Lunch 1pmTues 22-Wed 23 Apr6th CLAIBS Graduate Conference‘Shifting fortunes in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages’ Keynote speaker: Krystina Kubina (Austrian Academy of Sciences)Details TBCWed 18 & Thu 19 JuneWorkshop, organised by Niels Gaul and Panagiotis Agapitos (Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz)‘Byzantine authorial/autograph manuscripts: typology, terminology, methodisation’Details TBCTue 24 JuneDavid FrankfurterTBCTBC Follow the School of History, Classics and Archaeology Instagram Bluesky Facebook 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
