MOVED TO A LATER DATE 9 X 2025: 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 ...

2 X 2025: Jakub Urbanik (UW) D. I 3.37 / P. Oxy. LXXXV 5495 – Consuetudo Strikes Back

The quaestio prima of the juristic papyrology has been since its beginning the problem of law application in Egypt under the Roman rule. In the last half of the century two ...

5 VI 2025: Thomas Laver (Cambridge) New Insights into the Organisation of Monastic Estates in Egypt, 5th-9th c.

The growth of the monastic movement in Late Antique Egypt brought with it highly practical concerns for those ascetics that chose to live in communities, with the necessities of survival ...

29 V: Przemysław Nehring (UMK) & Aldona Glińska-Neweś (UMK): Augustine’s Sermons 355-356 – Communication Strategy in an Institution’s Reputational Crisis – Rhetorical Analysis vs Modern Crisis Management Theory

This paper examines Bishop Augustine's crisis communication strategy during the "Januarius affair" of 425-426 CE, when the aging bishop delivered two sermons to defend both his monastic institution and personal ...

22 V 2025: Szymon Maślak (UW): Brick Industry in Late Antique Alexandria

Although the PCMA UW excavations at the Kom el-Dikka site, conducted since 1960, have uncovered numerous examples of brick or mixed stone-brick constructions, Alexandria remains comparatively underexplored in the field ...