Séminaires de l’OCLA autour de “Islam & the Islamic World”, avr.-juin 2014, Oxford
Islam & the Islamic World: Seminars & Events
After Rome Seminar: Aspects of the History and Archaeology of the Fifth to Seventh Centuries
Thursdays at 5pm, Trinity College (in Danson Room except for Week 6)
1 May (Week 1)
Bryan Ward-Perkins (Trinity College, Oxford):
‘An Introduction to the European Research Council Cult of Saints Project’
To celebrate the launch of this project there will be a brief drinks reception after the seminar
8 May (Week 2)
Maria Lidova (Wolfson College and ‘Empires of Faith’ project):
The Imperial Theotokos: Revealing the Concept of Early Christian Imagery in S. Maria Maggiore
15 May (Week 3)
George Gereby (Central European University, Budapest):
Polemical narrative theology: the Protevangelium of James on the female, Jews, and the Nativity
22 May (Week 4)
Sylvain Destephen (Paris X, Nanterre):
Local martyrs and civic cults in Asia Minor
29 May (Week 5)
Mar Marcos (Universidad de Cantabria):
Flavius Constantius, the Urban Prefect, and the Church of Rome (AD 418–419)
5 June (Week 6)
Fanny Bessard (SOAS, London):
Shaping the early Islamic city in Mā warā’ al-nahr (Central Asia), social and economic dynamics (8th–11th CE)
NB: This week only the seminar will meet in Trinity’s Sutro Room
12 June (Week 7)
Marie Legendre (Oriental Institute, Oxford):
A meaningful silence: Landowning in early Islamic Egypt between the ‘grands domaines’ and Abbasid caliphal estates
19 June (Week 8)
James Howard-Johnston (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
The Grand Strategy of the Sasanian Empire
Convenors: James Howard-Johnston and Bryan Ward-Perkins
Seminar on Abrahamic Religions
Mondays, 5.30–7 pm, in the Oriental Institute
Convenors: Professor Martin Goodman, Dr Mark Edwards, and Dr Nicolai Sinai
28 April (Week 1)
Professor Carlos Fraenkel (LMH):
Violence and intolerance in the Abrahamic Religions
5 May (Week 2)
Katherine Perry (Pembroke) and Anna Chrysostomides (St Antony’s):
Violence in Luke 22:35–8 and Christian martyr descriptions from the early Islamic descriptions
12 May (Week 3)
James Bergida (Blackfriars) and Jonathon Wright (St Stephen’s House):
Usury as bloodless warfare in the arguments of Ambrose and post-biblical interpretation of Simeon and Levi
19 May (Week 4)
Sam Baddeley (St Peter’s) and Lucy Parker (Lincoln):
Irenaeus’ Against Heresies and outsiders in Christian hagiography
26 May (Week 5)
Kim Czajkowski (Merton) and Cecilia Palombo (Pembroke):
Pagans on Jewish misanthropy and anti-Jewish polemics in Coptic-Arabic Christian homilies
2 June (Week 6)
Anthony Rabin (Wolfson) and Marten Krijgsman (St Cross):
Forcible circumcision in the Second Temple period and the ethics of war in Deuteronomy
9 June (Week 7)
Charlotte Klingelhoeffer (Regent’s Park) and Dr Nicolai Sinai (Pembroke):
Tertullian against heresies and Qu’ranic polemic against Judaism
16 June (Week 8)
Dr Sinai and Professor Fraenkel:
Conclusions
infos:
www.ocla.ox.ac.uk/sect_iiw_eve.shtml