Warsaw late Antique Seminar

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) 

 

2.10     Jakub Urbanik (UW), D. I 3.37 / P. Oxy. LXXXV 5495 – Consuetudo Strikes Back

9.10     No seminar

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