Late Antique Seminar in the winter semester

After the summer break Ewa Wipszycka’s Late Antique Seminar is now back, every Thursday at 4.45 (Warsaw time). We are starting with the not-so-much late-antique workshop Contact Zones in Eastern Mediterranean, on 7-8 October.

Schedule for the winter semester (also available at Seminar website).

7-8.10: Workshop Contact Zones in Eastern Mediterranean
14.10: Philipp Pilhofer (Humboldt Universität Berlin), ‘A very pleasant spot to walk and spend time’ – Thecla’s cave at Seleucia
21.10: Albrecht Diem (Syracuse University), Basil, Benedict and Beyond. Understanding regular observance
28.10: Jan Prostko-Prostyński (Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza), Antowie nie całkiem słowiańscy-nowa perspektywa
4.11: Paweł Nowakowski (UW), The origin of the toponym Galata (suburbs of Constantinople). Some further thoughts
18.11: Marta Szada (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika), Arianism in fifth-century Gaul: the limitations of the study
25.11: Przemysław Piwowarczyk (Uniwersytet Śląski), Coptic texts of ritual power as voices of laypeople?
2.12: Adam Łajtar (UW), A new piece of evidence in an old question: A Greek inscription from Tafah and the Christianisation of Nobadia
9.12: Jakub Łojszczyk (UW) Fragments regarding the alliance with ‘Turks’ as an example of ethnographic categories and Kaiserkritik in the History of Menander the Guardsman
16.12: Przemysław Nehring (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika), Praktyka i teoria epistolograficzna w listach Augustyna
13.01: Adam Ziółkowski (UW), A case of collective amnesia? Why did the Western Romans of the 4th century know so little about the 3rd-century crisis of the Empire?
20.01: Flavia Ruani (Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes CNRS), Jimmy Daccache (Yale University) & Simon Brelaud (University of California Berkeley), E-Twoto Digital Paleography of Syriac Inscriptions
27.01: Mara Nicosia (Universiteit Gent), Syriac monastic schools and the teaching of rhetoric

Photo: fresco in Santa Maria Antiqua Church (Rome), Robert Wiśniewski