• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Conrad Leyser (History) , Alison John
• Timing: Thursdays at 16:00

Thursday 19 January 2017 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Augustine ofHippo and Two African Revolutions
  Neil McLynn (University of Oxford), Conrad Leyser (University of Oxford)

Thursday 2 February 2017 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Through the Eye of the Scribe: Interpolations, Extensions, and Omissions in Late Antique and Medieval Miscellanies
  Renan Baker (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 9 February 2017 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Blood, Sweat and Tears: the Transformation of the Roman Emperor's Image in the Early Seventh Century
  Nadine Viermann (University of Konstanz)

Thursday 16 February 2017 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Partes Imperii: East and West in the Fall of the Roman Empire
  Mark Humphries (University of Swansea)

Thursday 23 February 2017 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Monasticism and Multilingualism
  Claudia Rapp (University of Vienna)

Thursday 2 March 2017 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Transforming the Transformation of the Transformation of the City of Rome in the Fourth Century
  John Curran (University of Belfast)

Thursday 9 March 2017 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - Individual Religious Agency: Jerome and his Jewish ‘Network’
  Jessica van-’t-Westeinde (University of Tübingen)

Thursday 8 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - ‘Ascetics and aesthetics in late antique Hispania: the devotional worlds of Prudentius and Priscillian’
  Dave Addison (Oxford)

Thursday 1 March 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - 'Constantine and the translation of relics to Constantinople: further remarks on a recently published inscription from Ephesos.'
  Pawel Nowakowski (Oxford)

Thursday 8 March 2018 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - 'A Reflection of the Heart: Speech, Silence, and Caesarius of Arles's Convent of St. John'
  Jennifer Chaloner (Oxford)

Thursday 11 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The walls of Carthage and the date of Augustine’s De Trinitate’
  Andrew Wilson (Oxford)

Thursday 18 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Reading Eugippius in Theoderic’s Italy: the Life of Severinus and its political message’
  Marta Szada (University of Warsaw)

Thursday 25 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Augustine on Lying’
  Margaret Atkins (Boarbank Hall / Blackfriars)

Thursday 1 November 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘The cycle and the void: Writing Helena’.
  Julia Hillner (University of Sheffield)

Thursday 8 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Moses as prophet-sage in Philo and Origen’
  Claire Hall (Oxford)

Thursday 15 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘Ammianus Marcellinus, the old age of Rome, and the populus Romanus.’
  Shunsuke Kosaka (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)

Thursday 22 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Title TBC
  TBA

Thursday 29 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - ‘How to interpret Procopius’ Persian tales.’
  Geoffrey Greatrex (University of Ottawa)

Thursday 17 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - From Constantine to the Quinotaur: the Rise of Blood Kinship
  Conrad Leyser

Thursday 24 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Theodosius I at Thessalonica, 379–380
  Philip Atkins

Thursday 31 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Administration and Historical Memory in the African Legislation of Justinian I
  Miranda Williams

Thursday 7 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - A feast of the genius of Carthage: paganism and civic life in Augustine, sermo 62
  Mattias Gassman

Thursday 14 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Reading Basil of Caesarea's Appeal to Non-Scriptural Tradition in Context
  John Whitty

Thursday 21 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Christian Building Patronage in Late (and Post-) Roman Gaul
  Joseph Lewis

Thursday 28 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - What to do with a dead saint? Jerome's Lives of Holy men and a fourth-century debate
  Christa Gray (Reading)

Thursday 5 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Augustine as Literature?
  Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr)

Thursday 23 January 2020 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Macrobius’ Virgils
  Katherine Krauss

Thursday 30 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Building the Metropolitan Church: Informal Networks and Formal Institutions in Ambrose of Milan
  David Natal (Royal Holloway)

Thursday 6 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Northwestern Provinces in Crisis: Julian's Campaigns on the Rhine and the Reorientation of the Northwestern Economy
  James Harland (Tuebingen)

Thursday 13 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Macarius and his Mission: Charity and Coercion in Donatist Africa
  Neil McLynn

Thursday 20 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Accentual prose rhythm and the text and language of Ammianus Marcellinus
  Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh)

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Migrant Husbands in Lombard Italy
  Annamaria Pazienza (Venice)

Thursday 5 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Roman Satire and the Fall of Rome: Gibbon and Juvenal
  Ian Fielding (Michigan)

Thursday 12 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Dirty habits: rethinking Foucault on confession in early Christian monasticism
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Justine Potts

Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - "I cut its neck with its own sword": Tradition, Subversion and Heresiological Authority in the Praedestinatus
  Richard Flower (Exeter)

Thursday 28 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Salvian, ‘Quodvultdeus’, and the Cult of Caelestis in Roman and Vandalic Carthage
  Mattias Gassman, Respondent: David Lambert

Thursday 4 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Augustine and Wittgenstein: the Inner Dialogue Continued
  Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr)

Thursday 11 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - In Defiance of History: Orosius and the Unimproved Past
  Victoria Leonard (Coventry)

Thursday 18 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Late Roman Italy in Latin Panegyric: From the Panegyrici Latini to Ennodius (289-507)
  Adrastos Omissi (Glasgow)

Thursday 25 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Reconstruction of Rome after the Gothic War: The Pragmatic Sanction
  Michele R Salzman (UC Riverside)

Thursday 4 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Symmachus’ Correspondence and the Formation of a Trans-Regional Elite in the Later Roman State
  John Weisweiler (Cambridge)

Thursday 11 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Augustine the Unreliable Narrator
  Kate Cooper (Royal Holloway)

Thursday 14 October 2021 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Roman Hellenic Philosophers: An 800 Year Journey from the Imperial Periphery to the Center and Back Again
  Ed Watts (UC San Diego)

Thursday 21 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Misusing Books: Material Texts, Ritual Failure, and Lived Religion in the Late Roman Mediterranean
  Jeremiah Coogan

Thursday 28 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Title TBC
  TBA

Thursday 4 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Manliness and Imperial Legitimation in Pacatus’ Panegyric in Praise of Theodosius
  Susanna Elm (Berkeley)

Thursday 11 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Religion and Rhetoric in Claudian's Carmina Maiora
  Ben Kybett (Cambridge)

Thursday 18 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - How to assess a pandemic: qualitative (and quantitative) studies of the Justinianic Plague
  Rebecca Flemming (Cambridge)

Thursday 25 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Elite mobility and the adoption of religious kinship terminology in the late-antique West
  Becca Grose (Reading)

Thursday 2 December 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 16:00 - Perceptible Virginity: its Usefulness and Consequences in the Later Roman Empire
  Julia Kelto Lillis (Union Theological Seminary)

Thursday 20 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Modestus at Edessa: imperial officials in the Ecclesiastical Histories of Rufinus, Socrates, Sozomen and Theodoret
  Robin Whelan (Liverpool)

Thursday 27 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Dirty habits: rethinking Foucault on confession in early Christian monasticism
  Justine Potts

Thursday 3 February 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Between pagan and Christian: thinking through religious difference and religious change with Augustine
  Mattias Gassman

Thursday 10 February 2022 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The theatre of war: military narrative in Agathias’ Histories
  Jonathan Wild

Thursday 17 February 2022 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Converting the kings: Avitus of Vienne, Leander of Seville and royal religious conversions
  Marta Szada (Warsaw)

Thursday 24 February 2022 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Education and power in late antique Gaul
  Alison John

Thursday 3 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - What is and what happens in Jerome’s catalogue of writers, the De illustribus viris / De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis?
  Mark Vessey (British Columbia)

Thursday 10 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Concepts of nature in ancient Jewish texts from the Hellenistic period: philological and philosophical exploration
  Hindy Najman

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - "May the voice of the faithful resound": colophons in early Iberian manuscripts
  Ana Dias

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Soul and Embodiment in the Late Antique World: Three Case-Studies
  David Addison, Martina Carandino, John Merrington

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Why saints were seen much more often in the late antique East than in the West
  Bryan Ward-Perkins

Thursday 8 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Character Networks, Semantic Networks and Social Network Analysis: Examples around Fulgentius of Ruspe
  Dorothee Schenk (Göttingen)

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Shaping the letter collections of Basil and Gregory of Nazianzus
  Andrew Morrison (Glasgow)

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Letters of Refuge: From Ancient Lyons to Modern Calais
  James Corke-Webster (KCL)

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Julian in Gaul
  Alan Ross (Ohio)

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Symbolic Worlds of Justus of Urgell and Gregory the Great
  Yaniv Fox (Bar-Ilan)