22 I 2026: Karl Dahm (Durham), Family Dramas in Late Antique Church Conflicts
Traditional scholarship tended to depict ecclesiastical conflicts of late antiquity as taking place on the grand and public stage of church councils, theological treatises, and imperial decrees with bishops and ...
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15 I 2026: Sofía Torallas-Tovar (IAS Princeton), Writing Magic: Scribes and Magical Formularies on Papyrus
In the study of magic in the Ancient World, scholars have had a tendency to focus on the practitioners and clients of magical practices. This paper focuses instead on the ...
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8 I 2026: Simcha Gross (University of Pennsylvania), Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Communities and Empire on the Roman-Sasanian Frontier
The competition between the Roman and Sasanian empires for control of the frontier has been told many times, but typically from an imperial perspective. This lecture shifts the focus to ...
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18 XII 2025: Grzegorz Ochała (UW) Of Names and Meanings: Insights into Socioonomastics of Medieval Nubia
Onomastics has been an important part of the Altertumswissenschaften, especially epigraphy and papyrology, since very early on. Yet, unlike in contemporary societies in which names form the basis of, among ...
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11 XII 2025: Paweł Nowakowski (UW) Thinking in Greek and Thinking in Aramaic: How Languages Foster Unique Ways of Processing and Expressing Thought in Late Antique Epigraphy
In my paper, I will present some considerations for a book chapter on the choice of language in the epigraphical practice of late antique Roman Syria. Due to time constraints, ...
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4 XII 2025: Oto Mestek (Univerzita Karlova), The Disappearance of the Heruli: Justinian’s Policy Towards the Barbarian Foederati
The Heruli were one of the lesser-known Germanic tribes that attacked the Roman Empire in Late Antiquity. They were part of Attila’s Hunnic empire and later settled in the Middle ...
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