Conference - 'Care and Community in Late Antiquity, 300-800 CE' Programme Thursday 25 May; MST G.03 - Doorway 6 1000-1030: Reception and coffee 1030-1045: Welcome and opening remarks Session 1: Expert communities 1045-1120: Networks of knowledge held by magical gem carvers Jordan Poole, University of Liverpool 1120-1155: The medicus in the community in Augustine’s North Africa Murdo Homewood, University of Edinburgh 1200-1310: Session 2: Creating communities 1200-1235: Omnis vita naufragium est: Disaster and Community in the works of Salvian of Marseille - Joseph Dax, University of Edinburgh 1235-1310: Who the hell is “you”: Identifying Communities in Commodian’s Instructiones - Helen Wyeth, University of St Andrews 1315-1415: Lunch 1415-1525: Session 3: Communities and individuals [hybrid] 1415-1450: sim promeritus Christi fore, dum sum Ausonii: Changing Notions of Friendship and Fatherhood in Early Christianity - Devin Lawson, Bryn Mawr College 1450-1525: The ‘I’ in community: Gregory of Nazianzus and the fashioning of self in society Mathijs Clement, University of Cambridge 1530-1640: Session 4: Religion in the community 1530-1605: Categorizing the Christian Community of Lactantius’s Institutiones Divinae - Kent Peters, University of Edinburgh 1605-1640: Chronic pain and religious therapies in the Miracles of Cosmas and Damian Elle Jones, University of Liverpool Friday 26th May; MST Sydney Smith Lecture Room - Doorway 1 1000-1015 - Welcomes 1015-1125: Session 5: Infrastructure: Approaches to care 1015-1050: Justinian and the Orphanages: between Welfare State and Kaiseridee Paolo Costa, Università di Genova 1050-1125: Hospitals, sieges and cannibalism Carlo Emilio Biuzzi 1125-1145: Coffee Break 1145-1255 : Session 6: Rhetorical approaches to care and community 1145 - 1220: An innovative idea of “care”: the role of rhetoric - Antonio Avilio 1220-1255: Rhetorical strategies in Late Antique encomia on Papyrus Antonella Carbone, University of Liverpool 1300-1330: Closing remarks Please register for the conference, whether in-person or online, using the following link (Google link) Register here MS Teams links for online participants will be circulated the week of the conference Any queries can be directed to careandcommunityed@gmail.com May 25 2023 00.00 - May 26 2023 23.59 Conference - 'Care and Community in Late Antiquity, 300-800 CE' This Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies Conference will take place at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology on 25 and 26 May, 2023. School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG Find the venue Register
Conference - 'Care and Community in Late Antiquity, 300-800 CE' Programme Thursday 25 May; MST G.03 - Doorway 6 1000-1030: Reception and coffee 1030-1045: Welcome and opening remarks Session 1: Expert communities 1045-1120: Networks of knowledge held by magical gem carvers Jordan Poole, University of Liverpool 1120-1155: The medicus in the community in Augustine’s North Africa Murdo Homewood, University of Edinburgh 1200-1310: Session 2: Creating communities 1200-1235: Omnis vita naufragium est: Disaster and Community in the works of Salvian of Marseille - Joseph Dax, University of Edinburgh 1235-1310: Who the hell is “you”: Identifying Communities in Commodian’s Instructiones - Helen Wyeth, University of St Andrews 1315-1415: Lunch 1415-1525: Session 3: Communities and individuals [hybrid] 1415-1450: sim promeritus Christi fore, dum sum Ausonii: Changing Notions of Friendship and Fatherhood in Early Christianity - Devin Lawson, Bryn Mawr College 1450-1525: The ‘I’ in community: Gregory of Nazianzus and the fashioning of self in society Mathijs Clement, University of Cambridge 1530-1640: Session 4: Religion in the community 1530-1605: Categorizing the Christian Community of Lactantius’s Institutiones Divinae - Kent Peters, University of Edinburgh 1605-1640: Chronic pain and religious therapies in the Miracles of Cosmas and Damian Elle Jones, University of Liverpool Friday 26th May; MST Sydney Smith Lecture Room - Doorway 1 1000-1015 - Welcomes 1015-1125: Session 5: Infrastructure: Approaches to care 1015-1050: Justinian and the Orphanages: between Welfare State and Kaiseridee Paolo Costa, Università di Genova 1050-1125: Hospitals, sieges and cannibalism Carlo Emilio Biuzzi 1125-1145: Coffee Break 1145-1255 : Session 6: Rhetorical approaches to care and community 1145 - 1220: An innovative idea of “care”: the role of rhetoric - Antonio Avilio 1220-1255: Rhetorical strategies in Late Antique encomia on Papyrus Antonella Carbone, University of Liverpool 1300-1330: Closing remarks Please register for the conference, whether in-person or online, using the following link (Google link) Register here MS Teams links for online participants will be circulated the week of the conference Any queries can be directed to careandcommunityed@gmail.com May 25 2023 00.00 - May 26 2023 23.59 Conference - 'Care and Community in Late Antiquity, 300-800 CE' This Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies Conference will take place at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology on 25 and 26 May, 2023. School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG Find the venue Register
May 25 2023 00.00 - May 26 2023 23.59 Conference - 'Care and Community in Late Antiquity, 300-800 CE' This Centre for Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies Conference will take place at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology on 25 and 26 May, 2023.
