Winter Semester 2025/26
Always on Thursday, 4.45 p.m., Room 203 at the Faculty of Law, University of Warsaw
To get a link, please send a message to the conveners: Agata Deptuła (agata.deptula@uw.edu.pl) or Robert Wiśniewski (r.wisniewski@uw.edu.pl)
16/10 Zachary Herz (University of Colorado Boulder), A Fetid Jungle of Laws. The Organization of Imperial Rescripts, 160–534 C.E.
23/10 Yitzhak Hen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Purifying Texts in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
30/10 Robert Wiśniewski (UW), Was St Peter a popular saint?
6/11 David Addison (University of Liverpool), Extraneae Feminae: Women, the Clerical Household, and the Legacy of Nicaea
13/11 Stuart Airlie (University of Glasgow), Body Horror of the Empress and Dark Palaces of the Emperor: Rulers and Resentment c.400-c.1100
20/11 Roxanne Bélanger-Sarrazin (Universität Würzburg), Apocrypha, Magic, Liturgy: The Multiple identities of Coptic Prayers in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt
27/11 Jean-Michel Carrié (EHESS), TBA
4/12 Oto Mestek (Univerzita Karlova), The Disappearance of the Heruli: Justinian’s Policy Towards the Barbarian Foederati
11/12 Paweł Nowakowski (UW) Thinking in Greek and Thinking in Aramaic: How Languages Foster Unique Ways of Processing and Expressing Thought in Late Antique Epigraphy
18/12 Grzegorz Ochała (UW) Of Names and Meanings: Insights into Socioonomastics of Medieval Nubia
8/01 Simcha Gross (University of Pennsylvania), Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Communities and Empire on the Roman-Sasanian Frontier
15/01 Sofía Torallas-Tovar (IAS Princeton) Writing Magic: Scribes and Magical Formularies on Papyrus
22/01 Karl Dahm (University of Durham), Family Dramas in Late Antique Church Conflicts
See more: Warsaw Late Antique Seminar