Warsaw Late Antique Seminar, Winter 2023/24

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Warsaw Late Antique Seminar, University of Warsaw and Zoom, Thursdays 4:45 pm (Warsaw)

The Warsaw Late Antique Seminar is restarting. The first meeting of the winter semester will be held on October 5.

SCHEDULE

October 5: Ewa Wipszycka, University of Warsaw
Co się zmieniło w monastycyzmie egipskim między czwartym wiekiem a początkiem ósmego

October 12: Lucy Grig, University of Edinburgh
Representations of the emperor in late antique popular culture

October 19: Lieve Van Hoof, Ghent University
Libanius’ Oration for the Prisoners: A plea against social injustice

October 26: Jakub Urbanik, University of Warsaw
On the function of the Petition of Dionysia (P. Oxy. II 237)

November 9: Mateusz Fafiński, University of Erfurt
Monks or citizens: Monasticism and civic unrest in Edessa?

November 16: Marta Szada, Nicolaus Copernicus University
Priesthood, Christian discipline and orthodoxy in the Opus imperfectum in  Matthaeum

November 23: Julia Borczyńska, University of Warsaw,  Karol Kłodziński, University of Gdańsk, and Mohammed Abid, Université de la Manouba
Charakterystyka dotychczasowych odkryć epigraficznych z Musti (Afryka Prokonsularna) ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem późnoantycznego carmen

November 30: Michael Hahn, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Clerics at the hippodrome? Foucault’s heterotopia, spatial semantics, and the construction of norms in late antique church Communities

December 7: Ivan Foletti, Masaryk University
Experiencing the sacred in one's own skin: images and liturgy in late antique Rome

December 14: Eric Fournier, West Chester University
Anticipating disaster: Honorius, forbearance and the limits of religious coercion in late Roman North Africa

January 11: Dobrochna Zielińska, University of Warsaw:
Holy mothers of the Nile Valley. Indigenous traditions in transition during the late antique and early Byzantine period

January 18: Jim Walker, University of Zurich
Natural landscape and places of devotion intertwined: Merovingian Gaul under the lens

January 25: Yaniv Fox, University of Bar Ilan
The limits of allegory: biblical exegesis and political commentary in Justus of Urgell and Caesarius of Arles