Upcoming Seminars & Lectures
Murray Seminar: ‘Like himself and no other: The Story of Morgante Nano at the Florentine Court of Cosimo I de’ Medici’ with Sarah McBryde, 9 December 2025, Birkbeck, 17:00—18:30 (GMT)
Please join Birkbeck on 9 December 2025, at Birkbeck and online, for the Murray Seminar by Sarah McBryde. In this seminar, Sarah McBryde will share her research on ‘Like himself and no other: The Story of Morgante Nano at the Florentine Court of Cosimo I de’ Medici’.
Online Lecture: ‘Learning Late Antiquity: The Quarry Church at Deir al-Ganadla and the Lost Timber Nave’, with Mikael Muehlbauer, 9 December 2025, 12:00–1:30 pm (Eastern Standard Time, UTC -5)
The Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture and the Mashtot Chair of Armenian Studies at Harvard University is hosting an online lecture by Mikael Muehlbauer on December 9, 2025, focusing on the Quarry Church at Deir al-Ganadla and its significance for understanding Late Antique architecture in Egypt and the Mediterranean.
Online Lecture: ‘Worshipping the Mother Goddess: An Underground Cult Complex in Late Antique Aphrodisias’ with Ine Jacobs, 2 December 2025, 12:00–1:30 pm (Eastern Standard Time, UTC -5)
Ine Jacobs from the University of Oxford will discuss the discovery of a well-preserved underground cult complex dedicated to the mother goddess Kybele in Late Antique Aphrodisias, exploring its architecture, cultic artifacts, and the persistence of pagan worship until the 7th century, during a lecture hosted by the Mary Jaharis Center on December 2, 2025.
Lecture: ‘The Many Lives of the Asante Ewer’ with Lloyd de Beer, British Archaeological Association, 3 December 2025, online and Society of Antiquaries, 5.30pm (GMT)
Join the British Archaeological Association for the December lecture by Lloyd de Beer on ‘The Many Lives of the Asante Ewer’. This will be followed by a celebratory drinks reception for a new volume honouring Professor Sandy Heslop.
Murray Seminar: ‘Imago Dei, Imago Mundi: Matthew Paris’s saints, relics, maps and wonders’ with Paul Binski, Birkbeck, 17 November 2025, 17:00-18:30 (GMT)
Please join Birkbeck on 17 November, at Birkbeck and online, for the Murray Seminar by Paul Binski. In this seminar, Paul Binski will share his research on ‘Imago Dei, Imago Mundi: Matthew Paris’s saints, relics, maps and wonders’.
Online lecture: ‘Mediating Touch: Ivory Pyxides and the Eucharist’, with Evan Freeman, 17 November 2025, 12–1:30 pm (EST, UTC -5)
In this lecture, Evan Freeman, Simon Fraser University, will consider the use of ivory pyxides for receiving Communion in church. A large body of these round ivory boxes survive from late antiquity. Several boxes display motifs associated with the Eucharist.
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Upcoming Lecture Series
Online Lecture Series: ‘Participation through Prayer in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World’, 21 October 2025 – 10 February 2026, Tuesdays, 4–6 pm (CET)
Join PRAYTICIPYTE for this lecture series on prayer in the Late Medieval and Early Modern World, which takes place online.
Lecture Series: Oxford Medieval Visual Culture Seminar series 2025-2026
Check out the upcoming Oxford Medieval Visual Culture Seminar series. Please note all lectures take place in person.
Lecture Series: British Archaeological Association Programme of Meetings 2025-2026
The British Archaeological Association holds regular monthly lectures on the first Wednesday of each month between October and May in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House and online.
Murray Seminar: ‘Natural Disorder: Art and Unruliness in Norwich Priory’ with Dr Jessica Barker, Birkbeck, 7 May 2025, 17-18:30 (GMT)
Join the next Murray Seminar with Dr Jessica Barker, who will be presenting on representations of the natural world within a particular late-medieval monastic community.
Mmmonk School 2024: Webinars on Medieval Books
Join Mmmonk and Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (UGent) for their interdisciplinary practice-focused programme about medieval Flemish manuscripts. Experts introduce the main concepts, skills and methods of their given field of expertise. The lessons are online, free and open to everyone.
Lecture Series: British Archaeological Association Programme of Meetings 2024-2025
The British Archaeological Association holds regular monthly lectures on the first Wednesday of each month between October and May in the rooms of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House and online.
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Recorded Conferences and Seminars
Recorded Conference: British Archaeological Association Postgraduate Conference 2020
This year the conference took place online via Zoom across two days. Whilst we would have loved to have hosted the conference in-person, the silver lining is that we were able to have scholars and academics across the world attend and present their work. So fear not if you missed out – as we recorded…
Recorded Webinar: Race, Racism, and Teaching the Middle Ages
On 20 July 2020, The Medieval Academy of America hosted the webinar Race, Racism, and Teaching in the Middle Ages. In the wake of recent events and ongoing racially motivated violence, there have been many institutional responses to raise awareness of race and racism in the U.S. and beyond. This webinar focused on pedagogy and…
Conference recording: Secret Spaces: Medieval Sacristies, Vestries, Treasure Rooms and their Contents, Society of Antiquaries of London, 25 February 2019
On the 25th February 2019, the Society of Antiquaries of London hosted a one-day conference on Secret Spaces: Medieval Sacristies, Vestries, Treasure Rooms and their Contents. The aim of this conference is to introduce the subject of ecclesiastical treasure houses to both the academic world and the wider public. You can now watch the entire…
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