Visiting the Research Centre for Islamic Numismatics Tübingen (FINT)

Last week, I along with other fellows currently based at the Center for Advanced Studies “Migration und Mobilität in Spätantike und Frühmittelalter” at the University of Tübingen, had the opportunity to visit the university’s world-class collection of Islamic coins. Our visit was organized and hosted by Dr. al-Chomari from the Forschungsstelle f... Read more 03 Mar 2020 - 1 minute read

Tübingen Research Group Seminar

Since the start of February, I have held a short-term fellowship with the Center for Advanced Studies Research Group ‘Migration and Mobility in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages’ at the University of Tübingen. Tomorrow (21 February 2020) I will be giving a paper for the bi-weekly seminar. The seminar lasts from 18.00 to 19.30, and the dis... Read more 20 Feb 2020 - 1 minute read

Dumbarton Oaks & HMML Coptic Summer Program

From 8 July to 2 August 2019 I attended the Coptic language course hosted at the Hill Manuscript Museum and Library at St John’s University, Minnesota. The course was generously supported by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library. While they have offered a Syriac summer language program for several years now, the inclusion of a second language course i... Read more 05 Aug 2019 - 1 minute read

2019 SPBS Spring Symposium

The 2019 Spring Symposium for the Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies was held at Churchill College, Cambridge from 30 March through 1 April 2019. In addition to acting as the conference webmaster, I gave a communication titled ‘“It devoured many people and made bitter havoc among men”: stories of violence in the late antique wilderne... Read more 07 May 2019 - 2 minute read

New article in Byzantinische Zeitschrift

‘A note reconsidering the message of Heraclius’ silver hexagram, circa AD 615’ has appeared in the Spring 2019 issue of Byzantinische Zeitschrift. The short article identifies a previously unidentified connection between sources, which provides an important correction to our understanding of the reign of Heraclius (AD 610-41). The abstract reads... Read more 15 Mar 2019 - less than 1 minute read