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June 2021
Shifting Frontiers XIV: Scale and the Study of Late Antiquity
For the Fourteenth Meeting of the Society for Late Antiquity, we invite papers that investigate scale, which can be defined as a graduated range of values or measurements, whether, for example, of time, space, social organization, cosmology, or agency. Participants are encouraged to explore scale either as a methodological framework used by modern historians to interpret the past and/or as a type of late Roman analytic category, developed and employed by late ancient persons for their own heuristic purposes. Questions…
Find out more »Metamorfosi del Classico in età romanobarbarica
Organised by Antonella Bruzzone, Alessandro Fo, and Luigi Piacente. Secretary Filomena Giannotti, filomenagiannotti AT gmail.com.
Find out more »July 2021
IMC 2021 International Medieval Congress Leeds
Special thematic strand: Climates. Panel: Writing Letters in Climates of Conflict during Late Antiquity Time: 7 July 2021: 16.30-18.00 Programme here Organisor: Daniel Knox Moderator: Danuta Shanzer Featuring among others: Madeleine St. Marie, 'A Bishop in Unstable Times: Conflict in the Letters of Sidonius Apollinaris'. Panel: Seasons of the Mind: Weather and Interiority in Literature Time: 8 July 2021: 16.30-18.00 Programme here Organiser: IMC Programming Committee Moderator: Andrew Richmond Featuring among others: Richard Rush, 'When the Rhône Boils: Literary Uses…
Find out more »August 2021
18th Annual Conference of the European Association for the Study of Religions
Hosted by IAHR, the Italian Society for the History of Religions. Resilient Religion Resilience can be considered as the ability to counteract or absorb a process of transformation. It is also characterized by a capacity to endure changes without having to adapt permanently, an ability to find what best suits new environmental conditions; and an awareness of how to cope with a crisis. In this sense, religion – whether in its institutionalized forms or just as a simple belief in…
Find out more »September 2021
Concatenantur sibi epistulae nostrae. Reading Ancient Latin Letter Collections
Confirmed speakers and moderators include: Thomas J. Bauer (Universität Erfurt) Lucio de Giovanni (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) Arturo De Vivo (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) Sara Fascione (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) Barbara Feichtinger (Universität Konstanz) Bardo M. Gauly (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) Roy Gibson (University of Durham) Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh) Helmut Krasser (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen) Concetta Longobardi (Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) Gernot M. Müller (Universität Bonn) Karen Piepenbrink (Justus-Liebig-Universität…
Find out more »Stumbling Texts Conference
Lector, quas patieris hic salebras! The Stumbling Texts (and Stumbling Readers) of Late Latin Poetry International Conference and Workshop targeting new perspectives on late antique prose and poetry Confirmed Speakers include L. Furbetta, J. Hernández Lobato, S. McGill, A. Pelttari, C. Schindler, A. Stoehr-Monjou, Call for papers until 15 July 2021
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