SCORE Lecture Series (Winter Term 2023/24)
The fourth SCORE Online Lecture Series will start in October 2023. For more information about the lecture series in general, click here.
In order to register for the talks, please send an email to score.aai"AT"uni-hamburg.de; we will then send you the Zoom link and the access details. Some of the talks will also be recorded and made available to colleagues and students. If you're interested in a particular recording, please write to us at the same email address. We will send you the link to the video and the necessary password.
The lectures will take place on Tuesdays at 4.00 pm to 5.30 pm CET. The speakers of the winter term series are:
17 October 2023
Jodi Magness (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill):
Masada: Last Stronghold of the Jewish Revolt Against Rome
21 November 2023
Lisa Pilar Eberle (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen):
The Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Roman Empire: Problems and Potentials
12 December 2023
Nora K. Schmid (University of Oxford):
Brigand Poets (ṣaʿālīk) in Ancient Arabia: Social Outcasts and Ascetic Rebels
16 January 2024
Alasdair Grant (Universität Hamburg):
Martyrdom as Rebellion: A Literary Typology and its Eighth-Century Armenian Contexts
27 February 2024
Christian Sahner (University of Oxford):
Zaydī Mountain Refuges: Yaḥyā, Idrīs, and the Aftermath of the Revolt of Fakhkh (786)
