Warsaw Late Antique Seminar, Winter 2024/25

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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 3.

SCHEDULE

October 3: Laurent Ripart, Université Savoie Mont Blanc
The bipolar organisation of early Lerinian monasticism

October 10:  Matthias Sandberg, Universität Münster
There and back again: the princeps humilis and the Late Antique Empire

October 17: Verena Fugger, Independent
The power of bones: on the agency of relics in the North Syrian Desert steppe

October 24: Paulina Komar, University of Warsaw
Wine, church and economy during Late Antiquity 

October 31:  Jakub Urbanik, University of Warsaw
D. i 3.37 / P. Oxy. lxxxv 5495 – Consuetudo strikes back

November 11: Jakob Riemenschneider, Universität Giessen
Social distinctions and commonalities in sixth-century Gaza

November 14: Basemah Hamarneh, Universität Wien
Iconophobia in the Churches of the Levant: (Re)inventing images or seeking salvation?

November 28:  Serena Ammirati, Università Roma Tre
References and cross-references in late antique law books: a few years after REDHIS

December 5: Adam Łajtar & Agata Deptuła, University of Warsaw
Severus of Antioch in Nubia. Tracing early Christian traditions in Qasr Ibrim’s Greek manuscripts

December 12: Andrea Bernier, Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika
Deconstructing the Theodosian Code. Archives and collections of laws in the later Roman empire

December 19: Daniel Galadza, Pontificio Istituto Orientale
Piecing together Greek liturgy from Jerusalem after Late Antiquity 

January 9: Cezary Rudnicki, Uniwersytet Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie
The long duration of the Augustinian admonitio: From theology to politics

January 16: Łukasz Różycki, Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Hush! The late Roman art of intimidation in the light of selected sources

January 23: Przemysław Piwowarczyk, Uniwersytet Śląski
What did laypeople do during the Coptic Mass? – a non-liturgical perspective