CAHA and CBOMGS Research Seminars 2021-22, Spring semester

The series includes seminars co-hosted with the Centre for the Birmingham Research Institute for History and Cultures (BRIHC) and the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages (CESMA). 

Each seminar has an individual registration link. Please register with the email address that you intend to log in on the day of the seminar. 

For queries please contact Dr Theodora Hadjimichael (t.hadjimichael@bham.ac.uk) or Dr Daniel Reynolds (d.k.reynolds@bham.ac.uk). 

• 2 February. 16-17:30 -Siren Çelik (Marmara): Writing a new biography of Manuel II Palaiologos

• 9 February, 16-17:30 - Pramit Chadhuri (Texas Austin) and Joseph Dexter (Harvard): Computational differentiation of genre and speaker styles in Latin literature

• 16 February, 16-17:30 - David Ricks (Kings/Birmingham): Haunted by Missolonghi: Revolution and nostalgia in two Greek poets 

•  23 February, 16-17:30 - Roundtable discussion: Classics and ‘the Other’
  Speakers: Samuel Agbamu (Royal Holloway London), Susan Deacy (Roehampton), Deborah Kamen (University of Washington), Nandini Pandey (Johns Hopkins)

• 9 March, 16-17.30 -  Karin Schlapbach (Fribourg): “Sensing Religion”: Contextualizing Servius’ views on dance

• 30 March, 16-17:30 - Dan Reynolds (Birmingham): Making Deserts Bloom: Byzantium and the British Empire in Mandate Palestine, c.1922-c.1948 

•  27 April, 16-17.30 - Kleanthis Mantzouranis (Edinburgh): Aristotle on philotimia

•  4 May7, 16-17.30 - Nikos Papadimitriou and Akis Goumas:
  Aegean seal-engravers: their materials, tools, techniques and the evolution of skills

• 11 May, 16-17.30 - Sarah Blake (York University, Toronto): The Work of Objects: Imagining Things in Roman Writing 

• 16 May, 16-17:30 - Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala/Istanbul): Historiography as worldmaking: a new approach to historical writing in Byzantium