Coins | Lectures & Seminars
Lectures and Seminars
organized by the Coin Department
Lectures 2007
Medieval Encounters in Art and Coinage |
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7 March |
‘The Dollar of the Middle Ages’: Byzantine coinage in its international dimension |
Eurydice Georganteli |
14 March |
Byzantium’s Eastern Neighbour: The Power and Splendour of the Sasanian Empire |
Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis, Curator of Islamic and Iranian Coins, The British Museum |
| 21 March | Bezants in the West: Images of the Emperor | Barrie Cook Curator of Medieval and Early Modern Coinage, The British Museum |
30 May |
Encounters in Late Roman Britain: |
Richard Abdy, |
| 6 June | Royal Encounters: Marriages, Art and Politics in the Medieval World |
Dr Eurydice Georganteli, University of Birmingham |
| 3 October | Christians and Muslims in the medieval Mediterranean: Artistic Encounters | Dr Eurydice Georganteli, University of Birmingham |
| 10 October | Vikings and the ‘Great City’: Scandinavia, Byzantium and the Islamic World | Dr Gareth Williams, The British Museum |
| 17 October | Lust in the Dust: Anthony, Cleopatra and Coinage | Ted Buttrey, Emeritus Keeper, The Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge |
| 24 October | Pisanello and Benozzo Gozzoli: Byzantium and early Renaissance Italy | Dr Eurydice Georganteli, University of Birmingham |
An International Series of Seminars
ENCOUNTERS: In the Balkans, the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea, 12th-16th centuries
University of Birmingham
March 2007-March 2008
An international series of seminars, hosted by the University of Birmingham, which aim to discuss aspects of socio-economic, political, religious and artistic encounters in the late medieval and early modern Balkans, Anatolia, the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. All seminars are held in the Photograph Room of the Barber Institute of Fine Arts on Wednesdays at 17.00, and are followed by drinks and canapés and the chance to meet the speaker in an informal and collegial atmosphere. Abstracts and select bibliography are circulated before every seminar, so that participants can contribute with questions and discussion. Select papers will be published in a volume dedicated to the theme of late medieval encounters. For further information about the seminars, please contact E. Georganteli on: 0121 414 7332, e-mail: e.georganteli@bham.ac.uk
10 October |
Multi-cultural contacts in medieval polychrome sgraffiato ware in the eastern Mediterranean during the 13th and 14th centuries | Dr Tasha Vorderstrasse, The Netherlands Institute for the Near East, Leiden |
| 24 October Abstract |
New evidence from Sparta, Clarentza and Argos on later medieval monetary affairs in the Peloponnese |
Dr Julian Baker, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford |
| 21 November Abstract |
New approaches to western travellers’ accounts of Constantinople, 1403-53 | Dr Jonathan Harris, Reader in Byzantine History, Royal Holloway, University of London |
28 November |
Byzantine coins as icons and relics in medieval and early modern Italy | Professor Lucia Travaini, University of Milan |
Download a PDF of past seminar abstracts here.
The May 2007 Syrian Conference
Coinage and History in the Seventh-century Near East: Seventh-century Syrian Numismatic Round Table 2007
University of Birmingham, 26-27 May 2007
Download a PDF of conference details here.
Study Days
21 April 2007
The Bristol Anglo-Hellenic Cultural Society
28 April 2007
The Art Fund
To book a guided tour to the Encounters exhibition or a study day please contact Lucy Dagger, Events Officer at: events@barber.org.uk