Term Card - Michaelmas 2024
This term's talks will be held both in person at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies and/or online over MS Teams. Links will be distributed beforehand by means of the OUNS mailing list. To subscribe and receive meeting links and further updates, please email the Secretary at james.hua@merton.ox.ac.uk
Week 1 (Wednesday 16th October, 7-9pm, in person)
OUNS Social: Pub Trip
A social outing to The White Rabbit to meet each other, the Committee Members, and get excited for the upcoming term! All welcome.
Location: The White Rabbit Pub, near Gloucester Green
Week 2 (Friday 25th October, 3-4pm, in person)
OUNS Tour of Ashmolean Exhibition: ‘Money Talks’
A private tour of the new exhibition in the Ashmolean, ‘Money Talks’ – led by the curator Shailendra Bhandare (Ashmolean).
Location: Meet outside the Ashmolean Main Entrance
Week 3 (Wednesday 30th October, 4-5pm, in person)
OUNS Lecture: Palmyrene Numismatics
Rubina Raja (University of Aarhus): ‘"You are invited to.....": Thinking through economies of religion in Roman Palmyra’
Location: Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LU
A food and drinks reception will follow the lecture.
Week 4 (Wednesday 6th November, 4-5pm, in person)
OUNS Mediaeval Coinage Lecture
Elina Screen (University of Oxford): ‘Past responses: how were coins perceived and received in late Antiquity and the early middle ages?’
Location: Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LU
A food and drinks reception will follow the lecture.
Week 5 (Friday 15th November, afternoon, in person)
OUNS Study Day
Study Day / Afternoon Conference for Ashmolean Exhibition ‘Money Talks’. Organised by Shailendra Bhandare; special priority given to OUNS members and attendees.
Location: Ashmolean Lecture Theatre (final times and location tbc)
A food and drinks reception will follow the lecture.
Week 6 (Wednesday 20th November, 4-5.30pm, online)
Cross-Institution Graduate Colloquium
Teams link: here. Titles TBC.
Week 6 (Friday 22nd November, 4-5pm, in person)
OUNS Lecture: Coins and the Illegal Antiquities Market
Håkon Roland (University of Oslo): ‘Recent seizures of Punic and Bactrian coins in Norway. Different case outcomes and research potential in two apparently similar cases’
Location: Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LU
A food and drinks reception will follow the lecture.
Week 7 (Wednesday 27th November, 4-5pm, in person)
OUNS Lecture
Marcus Chin (CSAD/University of Oxford): ‘The epigraphic face of the monetary economy of Classical and Hellenistic Asia Minor: the case of honorific crowns’
Location: Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles’, Oxford, OX1 3LU
A food and drinks reception will follow the lecture.
