London Byzantine Studies Colloquium 2023

Programme:

Tuesday 13 June
Location: The Senate Room, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

13:00. Tea/coffee.

13:45. Despina Iosif (Athens), 'To Fight or not to Fight? Ecclesiastical Laws on Violence and Warfare'

14:45. Jacek Wiewiorowski (Gdańsk), ‘On the origins of legal emblems: selected legal aspects in the insignia of the Notitia Dignitatum’

15:45. Tea/coffee break

16:00. Simon Corcoran (Newcastle), ‘The bilingual world of Justinianic law’

17:00. Anne Alwis (Kent), ‘Hagiographic Voyages with St Ia of Persia’

Wednesday 14 June
Location: The Senate Room, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

09:30. Tea/coffee

10:00. Peter Rothenhöfer (Sun Yat-Sen University, Zhuhai), ‘ad heredes meos pertineat - Oberservations on testaments from 4th century Africa Byzacena’

11:00.  Lorena Atzeri (Milan), ‘Women and law in 11th-century Byzantium: Some Legal Cases from the Peira’

12:00. Tea/coffee break

12:15. James Corke-Webster (King’s College London), ‘Legislation, Charges and Christians:

Problems and Solutions’

13:15. Buffet lunch
Location: History Department, UCL (G.09, 26 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0AG)

Advance booking is required. Please follow this link to book your place (at least 24 hours in advance) using the link above.