Minione seminaria / Past seminars 2021/2022
7-8 October 2021 Workshop Contact Zones in Eastern Mediterranean
14 October 2021 Philipp Pilhofer (Humboldt Universität Berlin), ‘A very pleasant spot to walk and spend time’ – Thecla’s cave at Seleucia
21 October 2021 Albrecht Diem (Syracuse University), Basil, Benedict and Beyond. Understanding regular observance
28 October 2021 Jan Prostko-Prostyński (Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza), Antowie nie całkiem słowiańscy – nowa perspektywa
4 November 2021 Paweł Nowakowski (UW), The origin of the toponym Galata (suburbs of Constantinople). Some further thoughts
18 November 2021 Marta Szada (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika), Arianism in fifth-century Gaul: the limitations of the study
25 November 2021 Przemysław Piwowarczyk (Uniwersytet Śląski), Coptic texts of ritual power as voices of laypeople?
2 December 2021 Adam Łajtar (UW), A new piece of evidence in an old question: A Greek inscription from Tafah and the Christianisation of Nobadia
9 December 2021 Jakub Łojszczyk (UW) Fragments regarding the alliance with ‘Turks’ as an example of ethnographic categories and Kaiserkritik in the History of Menander the Guardsman
16 December 2021 Przemysław Nehring (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika), Praktyka i teoria epistolograficzna w listach Augustyna
13 December 2021 Jakub Urbanik (UW), The ἔθος and the Egyptian Priests. A Contribution to study of Law Application in Roman Egypt
20 January 2022 Flavia Ruani (Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes CNRS), Jimmy Daccache (Yale University) & Simon Brelaud (University of California Berkeley), E-Twoto Digital Paleography of Syriac Inscriptions
27 January 2022 Mara Nicosia (Universiteit Gent), Syriac monastic schools and the teaching of rhetoric
24 February 2022 Adam Ziółkowski (UW), Reading Iordanes in the third decade of the 21st c.: some thoughts on Getica’s Ostrogotha and Skythika’s Ostrogouthos.
3 March 2022 Katharina Rieger (UW/Universität Graz), Filling some gaps: Settlements and life-strategies between the Nile Delta and the Gulf of Sollum from Roman to Byzantine times.
10 March 2022 Daniel Syrbe (FernUniversität in Hagen), A world of small towns and nomads. The Mauretania provinces of the Roman Empire as ‘areas of limited statehood’ (1st – 6th c.)?
17 March 2022 Carlos Machado (St Andrews), Looking for the poor in late antique Rome: identity, knowledge, and power.
24 March 2022 Ewa Wipszycka (UW), Symonia: dlaczego niełatwo ją badać. Komentarz do dwóch Nowel Justyniana (Nov. 56; 123,3 i 16)
31 March 2022 Luke Lavan (University of Kent), Ephesus in Late Antiquity: Urban landscapes from architectural reuse
7 April 2022 Delphine Lauritzen (Sorbonne Université), Monasticism as the dreamlife of Angels: a twist of perspective
21 April 2022 Juliette Day (University of Helsinki), The contexts and contents of baptismal catechesis in the 4th century
28 April 2022 Aleksander Paradziński (UW), The boundaries of genre from Aristotle to Isidore of Seville – Can history be versified?
5 May 2022 Arietta Papaconstantinou (University of Reading), The monks and the consul: status and precedence in the resolution of a debt dispute (P.Oxy. LXIII 4397).
12 May 2022 Emiliano Bronisław Fiori (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia), Re-thinking the hereafter in Egypt during the Origenist crisis: The Apocalypse of Paul.
19 May 2022 David Frankfurter (Boston University), The Supernatural vulnerabilities of domestic space in Late Antique Egypt (according to magical amulets).
26 May 2022 Hajnalka Tamás (New Europe College, Bucarest), Christian Recommendation Practices in Late Antiquity (4th – 5th Centuries AD): Canons, Authors, and Evidence from Papyri
2 June 2022 Julia Borczyńska (UW), Haec quicumque vides nimio perfecta labore, desine mirari, minus est quam martyr habetur.’Epigrammata pseudodamasiana and the culture of commemoration and patronage of Roman city elites in the 4th-6th centuries.
9 June 2022 Phil Booth (University of Oxford), The Second Arab Siege of Constantinople (717-18): Crucible of the Copts?
15 June 2022 Ian Wood (University of Leeds), Constantius II and Christian Rome.