Convened by Marek Jankowiak and Marc Lauxtermann
Wednesdays at 5 PM, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’
(W1) 22 January Péter Bara (Szeged) ‘Leo of Chalcedon: A debating canonist?’
(W2) 29 January Aslıhan Akışık (Wolfson) ‘Late Byzantine and early Ottoman literary representations
of Constantinople’
(W3) 5 February Nikos Zagklas (Vienna) ‘Vitriolic attacks in twelfth-century Byzantium: Poetry,
satirical strands, and intellectual antagonism’
(W4) 12 February Roman Shlyakhtin (Mainz) ‘Last border of Byzantium? Byzantine-Seljuk border
zone in lower Sakarya valley from Komnenoi to Palaiologoi’
(W5) 19 February Constantin Zuckerman (Paris) ‘On the History, improperly styled “Secret”, of Nicetas
of Paphlagonia, and the power of anathema over books’
(W6) 26 February Alexander Mallett (Tokyo) ‘Christians, Turks, and the origins of the First Crusade’
(W7) 4 March Alexander Riehle (Harvard) ‘Is textual criticism dead? A report on the forthcoming
edition of Nikephoros Choumnos’ letter collections’
(W8) 11 March Andras Nemeth (Vatican) ‘The Excerpta Constantiniana and the editor of the
fragmentary historians: New fragments from Dexippus and Polybius’
