Ewa Wipszycka’s Late Antique Seminar: Summer semester 2022
Below you will find the programme of Ewa Wipszycka’s Late Antique Seminar for the forthcoming semester. Abstracts and any changes should they occur will be published on the seminar’s website. The seminar gathers on Thursdays, 4.45 p.m. in the Library of Papyrology and Roman Law or Room 209 (both at the Faculty of Law and Administration). Zoom participation is possible as well and all interested in it can join the seminar’s mailing list or ask for a single link, both writing to Robert Wiśniewski.
The programme poster to download.
24 February Adam Ziółkowski (UW), Reading Iordanes in the third decade of the 21st c.: some thoughts on Getica’s Ostrogotha and Skythika’s Ostrogouthos.
3 March Katharina Rieger (UW/Universität Graz), Filling some gaps: Settlements and life-strategies between the Nile Delta and the Gulf of Sollum from Roman to Byzantine times.
10 March Daniel Syrbe (FernUniversität in Hagen), A world of small towns and nomads. The Mauretania provinces of the Roman Empire as ‘areas of limited statehood’ (1st – 6th c.)?
17 March Carlos Machado (St Andrews), Looking for the poor in late antique Rome: identity, knowledge, and power.
24 March Eline Scheerlinck (Universiteit Leiden), Problem solving in Early Islamic Egypt: the Coptic protection letters.
31 March Luke Lavan (University of Kent), Ephesus in Late Antiquity: Urban landscapes from architectural reuse.
7 April Delphine Lauritzen (Sorbonne Université), Monasticism as the dreamlife of Angels: a twist of perspective.
21 April Juliette Day (University of Helsinki), The contexts and contents of baptismal catechesis in the 4th century.
28 April Aleksander Paradziński (UW), The boundaries of genre from Aristotle to Isidore of Seville – Can history be versified?
5 May Arietta Papaconstantinou (University of Reading), The monks and the consul: status and precedence in the resolution of a debt dispute (P.Oxy. LXIII 4397).
12 May Emiliano Bronisław Fiori (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia), Re-thinking the hereafter in Egypt during the Origenist crisis: The Apocalypse of Paul.
19 May David Frankfurter (Boston University), The Supernatural vulnerabilities of domestic space in Late Antique Egypt (according to magical amulets).
26 May Tomasz Derda (UW), Going to Abu Mena: ‘Marea’/Philoxenite on the Lake Mareotis.
2 June Julia Borczyńska (UW), Haec quicumque vides nimio perfecta labore, desine mirari, minus est quam martyr habetur.’Epigrammata pseudodamasiana and the culture of commemoration and patronage of Roman city elites in the 4th-6th centuries.
9 June Phil Booth (University of Oxford), The Second Arab Siege of Constantinople (717-18): Crucible of the Copts?
16 June Ian Wood (University of Leeds), Christian economics in the fifth and sixth centuries.