Minione seminaria / Past seminars 2020/2021

15 October 2020 Robert Wiśniewski (UW), Counting presbyters in late antique Rome

22 October 2020 Grzegorz Ochała (UW), The cathedral of Faras as as a monument of Nubian memory

29 October 2020 Merle Eisenberg (University of Maryland), Pandemics and History: the Plague Concept, Disease, and the End of Antiquity

5 November 2020 Aleksander Paradziński (UW), Magnus of Carrhae, Ammianus Marcellinus and Sulpicius Alexander – the phenomenon of ‘soldier historians’ of the Later Roman Empire

12 November 2020 Paweł Nowakowski (UW), ‘Why lies it idle, this beautiful stone?’, or a short introduction to a new project in early Byzantine epigraphy

19 November 2020  Jerzy Szafranowski (UW), How to distinguish monks from clerics in sixth-century Gaul

26 November 2020  Marek Jankowiak (Oxford University), On Kyros of Alexandria, seventh-century popes and the Arab conquest of Egypt

3 Dezember 2020 Andrzej B. Kutiak (Technische Universität München), ‘Marea’/Northern Hawarriya: the planning of a Byzantine town 

10 Dezember 2020 Joanna Wegner (UW), Looking (not only) to heaven: the Aphrodito clergy in the 6th c. 

17 Dezember 2020 Marta Szada (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu), The Gothic language and the Homoian identity in the post-Roman successor kingdoms

7 January 2021 Marzena Wojtczak (UW), How to become a monastic superior? – legal perquisites & mundane realities in late antique papyri

14 January 2021 Anna Kotłowska (Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza), Poemat De Creta Capta Teodozjusza Diakona jako źródło historyczne

21 January 2021 Damian Mrugalski (OP), Could Plotinus have been influenced by Jewish and Christian thought? The history of the notion of God’s infinity

28 January 2021 Adam Ziółkowski, Bartosz Kontny, Kiril Myzgin, Krystyna Stebnicka, Michał Baranowski (UW), Kryzys cesarstwa w III wieku. Dlaczego wybuchł i dlaczego został zapomniany?

4 February 2021  Jakob F. Stagl (Universidad de Chile), The death of the jurist. Aporiai of the ‘biographical approach‘

25 February 2021 Aleksandra Kubiak-Schneider (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), Hatra of Shamash. City under divine protection

4 March 2021 Philippe Blaudeau (Université d’Angers), A disgruntled/unfortunate Alexandrian: geo-ecclesiological remarks on the Egyptian stages of Patriarch Paul the Black’s course (565-566; 575-576)

11 March 2021 Maria Nowak (UW / Universiteit Leiden), P. Mon. Phoib. Test. 1–4. Once again on the testamentary appointment of monastic superior and the status of St. Phoibammon.

18 March 2021 Marco Passarotti & Francesco Mambrini (ERC-CoG project LiLa: Linking Latin / Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) Interlinking through Lemmas. The LiLa Knowledge Base of Interlinked Linguistic Resources for Latin

25 March 2021 Krystyna Stebnicka (UW), Decius and the historical tradition of Dexippos

8 April 2021 Luigi Silvano (Università di Torino), Imagining the other world in Late Antiquity: visions and tales in the Greek and Latin tradition

15 April 2021 Sebastian Richter (Freie Universität, Berlin), Coptic epigraphy at Deir Anba Hadra: New insights and new intricacies

22 April 2021 Juliette Day (University of Helsinki), Investigating lay eucharistic experience in the early medieval period

29 April 2021 Sara Ann Knutson (UW) & Caitlin Ellis (University of Durham), ‘Conversion’ to Islam in Early Medieval Europe: Historical and Archaeological Perspectives on Northern European Interactions with Islam 

6 May 2021 Alexander Sarantis (UW), Interpreting a Crisis Period: Assessing Military, Political and Environmental Stresses in the Balkans, 565-626

13 May 2021 Emmanouela Grypeou (Stockholms Universitet),  The Reckoning of the Soul: The development of the motif of the Demonic Tollhouses in late antique Eastern Christianity

20 May 2021 Davide Amendola (Trinity College Dublin), The Eagle and the Owl: Athenian Legacies in Early Ptolemaic Alexandria

27 May 2021 Enno Friedrich (Universität Graz), Pindaricus Fortunatus? How well did Venantius Fortunatus (Gaul, 6th c. CE) know Pindar (Greece, 5th c. BCE)?

10 June 2021 Teresa Wolińska (Uniwersytet Łódzki), Was Al-Harith (Arethas) a king? The Use of the Title of Basileus in Procopius’ Writings