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Warsaw Late Antique seminar on 28 V 20206: Kristina Sessa (Ohio State University), Disaster at Scale: Experiencing Ruinous Events in Late Antiquity

This talk examines how men, women, and children in Late Antiquity responded to the material, social, and cultural contingencies of disasters on different scales of time, space, and social organization. ...

Conference ‘Seventy-Five Years of Ethiopian Studies: Voices Beyond Language, Cultures Beyond Borders’

To mark the 75th anniversary of Ethiopian Studies at the University of Warsaw, The Chair of African Languages and Cultures is organising a conference Seventy-Five Years of Ethiopian Studies: Voices ...

Conference ‘Inscribed Art in the Late Roman World’

On 15–16 May 2026, the Faculty of History  will host the international conference “Inscribed Art in the Late Roman West and Early Medieval Mediterranean Worlds (ca. 284–800 CE)”, organised by ...

CfC: research associacte on the ERC Project “A Provincial Capital Polis at the End of the Roman Era: Periphery or Centre of Power? (PeriPolis)”

Maria Nowak-Claytor, PI of the ERC-funded project A Provincial Capital Polis at the End of the Roman Era: Periphery or Centre of Power? (PeriPolis), has just announced a call for ...

7 V 2026: Mischa Meier (University of Tübingen), Jerusalem under Heraclius (610-641): Christians, Jews, Muslims, and the End of the World

The lecture deals with the city of Jerusalem under Emperor Heraclius (610-641) as a focal point of intense apocalyptic expectations among Jews, Christians, and early Muslims. It argues that three ...

XVII CRAC Small Grants

The Centre for Research on Ancient Civilizations is pleased to announce the 16th call for applications for CRAC Small Grants. These grants aim to support research and dissemination in the ...