Program
Winter Semester 2025/26
Always on Thursday, 4.45 p.m., Room 203 at the Faculty of Law, University of Warsaw
To get a link, please send a message to the conveners: Agata Deptuła (agata.deptula@uw.edu.pl) or Robert Wiśniewski (r.wisniewski@uw.edu.pl)
2.10 Jakub Urbanik (UW), D. I 3.37 / P. Oxy. LXXXV 5495 – Consuetudo Strikes Back
9.10 No seminar
16.10 Zachary Herz (University of Colorado Boulder), A Fetid Jungle of Laws. The Organization of Imperial Rescripts, 160–534 C.E.
23.10 Yitzhak Hen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Purifying Texts in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
30.10 Robert Wiśniewski (UW), Was St Peter a popular saint?
6.11 David Addison (University of Liverpool), Extraneae Feminae: Women, the Clerical Household, and the Legacy of Nicaea
13.11 Stuart Airlie (University of Glasgow), Body Horror of the Empress and Dark Palaces of the Emperor: Rulers and Resentment c.400-c.1100
20.11 Roxanne Bélanger-Sarrazin (Universität Würzburg), Apocrypha, Magic, Liturgy: The Multiple identities of Coptic Prayers in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt
27.11 Jean-Michel Carrié (EHESS), TBA
4.12 Oto Mestek (Univerzita Karlova), The Disappearance of the Heruli: Justinian’s Policy Towards the Barbarian Foederati
11.12 Paweł Nowakowski (UW) Thinking in Greek and Thinking in Aramaic: How Languages Foster Unique Ways of Processing and Expressing Thought in Late Antique Epigraphy
18.12 Grzegorz Ochała (UW) Of Names and Meanings: Insights into Socioonomastics of Medieval Nubia
8.01 Simcha Gross (University of Pennsylvania), Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Communities and Empire on the Roman-Sasanian Frontier
15.01 Sofía Torallas-Tovar (IAS Princeton) Writing Magic: Scribes and Magical Formularies on Papyrus
22.01 Karl Dahm (University of Durham), Family Dramas in Late Antique Church Conflicts
Summer Semester 2025
20.02 Tomasz Derda (UW), Tomasz Borowski (UW), Julia Burdajewicz (ASP) & Piotr Zakrzewski (UW) For Body and Soul. A Bath Complex and a Church, or on Monumentalism in Philoxenite on Lake Mareotis
27.02 Julia Schwarzer (Universität Regensburg), Christian Brotherhoods and Liturgical Song during Long Late Antiquity
6.03 Mar Marcos (Universidad de Cantabria) Ecclesiastical Rivalries and Urban Violence in Late Antique Rome: Evidence from Canonical Collections
13.03 Nicola Holm (UW) Constantius II and Ecclesiastical Politics: Creeds, Councils and Troublesome Bishops
20.03 Noel Lenski (Yale University) Feeding a Young Capital: The Food Supply of Constantinople in the Fourth Century
27.03 Daria Elagina (Hamburg Universität) & Dorota Dzierzbicka (UW), An Ethiopian pilgrim at Old Dongola, Sudan. New insights from a Vatican manuscript
3.04 Paweł Filipczak (Uniwersytet Łódzki) Commentary on John Malalas (XI, 3-4) on Emperor Trajan’s Expedition to the East
10.04 Zachary Chitwood (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Eastern Roman Law, Islam and the First Millennium: Prolegomena to a ius commune orientale
24.04 Perrine Pilette (CNRS – UMR8167 Orient & Méditerranée), Patriarchs, Month After Month : Rewritings of the History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria in the Copto-Arabic Synaxarion
8.05 Stephen Shoemaker (University of Oregon) Religious Literacy in the Late Ancient Near East: Liturgical Catechesis and Not-So-Simple Believers of Roman Arabia
15.05 Peter Van Nuffelen (Universiteit Gent) The Easter Date at the Council of Nicea: Old and New Evidence
22.05 Szymon Maślak (UW) Brick Industry in Late Antique Alexandria
29.05 Przemysław Nehring & Aldona Glińska-Neweś (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika) St Augustine’s Sermons 355-356 as an Example of Communication Strategy in an Institution’s Reputational Crisis – Rhetorical Analysis vs. Modern Crisis Management Theory
5.06 Thomas Laver (University of Cambridge) New Insights into the Organisation of Monastic Estates in Egypt, 5th-9th c.
Semestr zimowy / winter semester 2024/2025
Always on Thursday, 4.45 p.m. Warsaw time, in Room 203 at the Faculty of Law and on Zoom.
To get a link, please send a message to the conveners: Agata Deptuła (agata.deptula@uw.edu.pl) or Robert Wiśniewski (r.wisniewski@uw.edu.pl)
3.10 Laurent Ripart (Université Savoie Mont Blanc), The bipolar organisation of early Lerinian monasticism
10.10 Matthias Sandberg (Universität Münster), There and back again: the princeps humilis and the late antique empire
17.10 Verena Fugger (independent), The power of bones: on the agency of relics in the North Syrian Desert steppe
24.10 Paulina Komar (UW), Wine, church and economy during Late Antiquity
31.10 No seminar
7.11 Jakob Riemenschneider (Universität Giessen), Social distinctions and commonalities in sixth-century Gaza
14.11 Basemah Hamarneh (Universität Wien), Iconophobia in the Churches of the Levant: (Re)inventing images or seeking salvation?
21.11 Serena Ammirati (Università Roma Tre), References and cross-references in late antique law books: a few years after REDHIS
28.11 Adam Łajtar & Agata Deptuła (UW) Severus of Antioch in Nubia. Tracing early Christian traditions in Qasr Ibrim’s Greek manuscripts
5.12 Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh), Reinterpreting Ammianus Marcellinus: a new translation and a new edition
12.12 Andrea Bernier (Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika), Deconstructing the Theodosian Code. Archives and collections of laws in the later Roman empire
19.12 Daniel Galadza (Pontificio Istituto Orientale), Piecing together Greek liturgy from Jerusalem after Late Antiquity
9.01 Cezary Rudnicki (Uniwersytet Marii Skłodowskiej-Curie), The long duration of the Augustinian admonitio: From theology to politics
16.01 Łukasz Różycki (Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza), Hush! The late Roman art of intimidation in the light of selected sources
23.01 Przemysław Piwowarczyk (Uniwersytet Śląski), What did laypeople do during the Coptic Mass? – a non-liturgical perspective
Semestr letni / Spring semester 2023/2024
Always on Thursday, 4.45 p.m. Warsaw time, in Room 203 at the Faculty of Law and on Zoom.
To get a link, please send a message to Robert Wiśniewski (r.wisniewski@uw.edu.pl)