Lectures and Colloquia

Hilary Term Lecture
The Centre hosts the following lecture: Patrick Finglass (Bristol), ‘Edgar Lobel and the text of Sappho’.

“Work in Progress” colloquium
The Centre hosts the following two talks: A. Ellis (Bern), ‘“Greek” in the Medieval Latin Manuscripts of Josephus: Reconstructing the Philological Workings of a Late-Antique Translator’; S. De Martin (Oxford), ‘Reassessing the transmission of Strato com. fr. 1 K.-A.’

Michaelmas Term Lecture
The Centre hosts the following lecture: Mary Carruthers (NYU and Oxford), ‘Understanding Solid Figures in Early Medieval Manuscripts: how Rhetoric and Geometry interact’.

Provenance Unknown: TT 2023 Lecture
The Centre hosts the following lecture: Alexander Herman (Institute of Art and Law): ‘Don’t Turn That Page! The Legal Risks of Dealing in Unprovenanced Manuscripts’.

“Work in Progress” colloquium
The Centre hosts the following two talks: Marius Del Core (Pisa/Oxford), ‘Omitti possunt. Evidence for abridgement and athetesis in Plautine manuscripts’; Stefano Milonia (SSM Naples), ‘Super and Contra. Conversion and resemantisation of mediaeval French lyric in the Ludus super Anticlaudianum’.

Trinity Term Lecture
The Centre hosts the following lecture: Prof. Jean-Luc Fournet (Collège de France), ‘The End of a Script and the Beginning of a Myth: Hieroglyphs and the Greeks’.

Round Table
In celebration of the release of vol. 2 of Manuscript and Text Cultures, which takes an experimental approach of involving digital tools for the presentation of research in manuscript cultures, the Centre holds a round table on digital publishing and future research in manuscript studies.

Hilary Term Lecture
The Centre hosts the following lecture: Yannis Assael (Google DeepMind), ‘Predicting the past with deep neural networks’.

“Work in Progress” colloquium
The Centre hosts the following two talks: Giulia Colli (Pisa), ‘Interpolations in Greek Tragedy’; Enrico Prodi (UCL), ‘Commentary by excerpts: Didymus’ .

Michaelmas Term Lecture
The Centre hosts the following lecture: Mykola Tarasenko (Kyiv/Trinity College, Oxford): ‘What Can the “Greenfield Papyrus” (pLondon BM EA 10554) Tell Us about Its Owner?’

“Work in Progress” colloquium
The Centre hosts the following two talks: Benedetta Bessi (Venice/Stanford): ‘Towards a Digital Edition of the Liber insularum by Cristoforo Buondelmonti’; Joseph Mason (New College, Oxford): ‘Oral and Written Transmission in Old French Song: a reassessment’.

Second lunchtime colloquium, TT22
Our two speakers are: Giulia Dovico (Classics, Cologne), ‘Scholia on Euripides’ Medea. Remarks on the two main corpora’ and Celeste Pan (Jewish Studies, Balliol) ‘The Targumic Tosefta on Genesis 44:18. A Material History’.

“Work in progress” lunchtime colloquium
The Centre will host two online talks: “Ancient Slavery from the Perspective of the Papyri. New documents from Oxyrhynchus” by Amin Benaissa and “Liminal Landscapes: Childbirth and the Uncanny in Old Norse Literature” by Katherine Olley.