Late Antique and Byzantine Studies

Byzantium Comes to Britain


During winter 2008-9, the Society is collaborating with several other institutions, with the support of the London Centre for Arts and Cultural Enterprise http://lcace.org.uk, in organising a series of events and activities to accompany the Royal Academy exhibition, Byzantium 330-1453 http://royalacademy.org.uk/byzantium

See the calendar of events, to which all are welcome. http://lcace.org.uk/events

Prof Peter Heather (King’s College London)
Predatory migration and the first millennium

University of Cambridge: Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Medieval Studies Seminar

The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX
2.30-4.30pm
For further details contact: Dr. Richard Flower or Alice Rio

Annual Runciman Lecture
Judith Herrin (King’s College London)
We are all children of Byzantium

King’s College London: Centre for Hellenic Studies
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar

Great Hall, King’s College London.
The University of London Working Seminar on Editing Byzantine Texts from Manuscripts will resume its regular meetings on Fridays 16.30-18.30, starting on Friday 6 February 2009, at the Institute of Historical Research, Seminar Room, third floor, Senate House, University of London, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU.

For further information::
http://www.rhul.ac.uk/Hellenic-Institute/research/Seminar.htm
Lisa Shekede (Independent)
A Nabataean Wall Painting at Siq al-Barid, Petra: Context and Conservation

5.30pm in Seminar Room 1, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London.

For further details contact: A Claridge or Peter Stewart
Catherine Holmes (University of Oxford)
Archbishop Eustathios of Thessaloniki's 'Capture of Thessaloniki' as a lens for east-west relations in the 12th- and 13th-century eastern Mediterranean world

King’s College London: Centre for Hellenic Studies
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar

Saint David’s Room, Strand Campus, 5.30pm

12 Feb Birmingham Laura James (London)
The Egyptian Free Officers and Sudanese independence

University of Birmingham: Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies
Whitting Room (436), 4th floor, Arts Building, 5.15pm

17 Feb Cambridge Prof Jill Harries (St Andrews)
Constantine I, The Legislator

University of Cambridge: Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Medieval Studies Seminar

The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1RX
2.30-4.30pm
For further details contact: Dr. Richard Flower or Alice Rio

17 Feb London Annual BIAA Lecture
Rowena Loverance
From Edinburgh 1958-London 2008: Byzantine art for our times?

King’s College London: Centre for Hellenic Studies
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar

Council Room, King’s College London, TBC
Contact: Siobhan McKeown: biaa@britac.ac.uk

18 Feb Nottingham Dr Clive Bridger (Xanten Regional Müseum)
Recent research on the Late Roman period in Xanten and the Lower Rhineland

University of Nottingham: The Centre for Late Antique and Byzantine Studies
Archaeology, Room A58, 4.30pm.


21 Feb Cambridge Cross-Cultural Interactions between the Mediterranean and Western Europe during the Late Byzantine (Palaiologan) Period
Department of Art History, Open University, Warburg Institute and SPBS

OU East of England Centre, Hills Road, Cambridge.
10.30am-5.00pm

For further information download Word.doc (193kb)
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/arthistory/events.htm for details and registration (FREE).


20-22 Feb Cambridge The Friends of Mount Athos will hold their next residential conference at Madingley Hall, Cambridge, over the weekend of 20-22 February 2009. For further details (available in due course) please contact Dr Graham Speake, Hon Secretary, Friends of Mount Athos, Ironstone Farmhouse, Milton, Banbury OX15 4HH speakeg@aol.com

23 Feb London Jason Mander (Oxford)
The Iconography of the Roman Family: Interpreting Portraits of Children in Funerary Contexts

5.30pm in Seminar Room 1, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London.

For further details contact: A Claridge or Peter Stewart

24 Feb London Barbara Zipser (Royal Holloway University of London)
Medical books and their readers - Byzantine iatrosophia in context

King’s College London: Centre for Hellenic Studies
Late Antique and Byzantine Studies Seminar

Council Room, King’s College London, TBC

26 Feb Birmingham Vassilis Lambropoulos (Michigan)
The death of tragedy and the return of God Pan after
Nietzsche

University of Birmingham: Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies
Whitting Room (436), 4th floor, Arts Building, 5.15pm

27 Feb London Byzantium Comes to Britain
Byzantine Art in the Making

A Study Day at the British Museum.


This workshop is being organised by the British Museum, the Leverhulme Network, the Sussex Centre for Byzantine Cultural History and the Courtauld Institute, with support from LCACE. It will focus on how Byzantine art was made and the ways in which manufacturing techniques affect appearance.

For further details and booking information:
download pdf (118kb)
or contact B.K.Bjornholt@sussex.ac.uk

28 Feb London Byzantium Comes to Britain
Byzantium in London


Byzantium may seem remote from London both in time and space. This workshop will bring the two societies together by investigating the ways in which they interacted in the past and by exploring the reminders, remnants and reflections of Byzantium that can be found in London today.


Venue: Hellenic Centre, Paddington Street

For further details and booking information: http://www.rhul.ac.uk/history/research/byzantiuminlondon.html
download pdf (118kb)
or contact B.K.Bjornholt@sussex.ac.uk

28 Feb York Byzantine Ravenna
New Perspectives

Department of History of Art, University of York and SPBS
King’s Manor, University of York.
9.15am-5.00pm


http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/histart/byzantine-ravenna.html for details and registration (£5 for SPBS members which includes refreshments and sandwich lunch).
Contacts: Rosemary Morris or Becky Sanchez