Centre for Late Antique, Islamic Byzantine Studies seminars

Everyone is welcome to attend.

For more information, contact Professor Lucy Grig (Lucy.Grig@ed.ac.uk) and Dr Yannis Stouraitis (Yannis.Stouraitis@ed.ac.uk).

Semester 2 2025/26

DateSpeakerTopicVenue
Mon 2 FebDr Daniel Reynolds (Birmingham)‘Charlemagne's Jerusalem: The Melkite Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the early ninth century’5.10pm, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College
Mon 9 MarProfessor Ben Russell (Edinburgh)

‘Long-term urban change at Aphrodisias:
new results from the Place of Palms and Governor’s House’

Jointly organised with the British Institute at Ankara

5.10pm, G.159 – McLaren Stuart Room, Old College

Register here

Mon 16 Mar

Professor Tim Greenwood (St Andrews)

POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS

‘Greek versions of Armenian texts in Late Antiquity: when, where and why?’5.10pm, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College
Mon 13 AprDr Marie-Hélène Blanchet (CNRS Paris)‘A union with heretics? The dilemma of uniting the Byzantine and Roman Churches (13th–15th centuries)’5.10pm, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College
Mon 20 Apr 

Launch event for the Cambridge History of Later Latin Literature

To register, please contact Dr Aaron Pelttari (aaron.pelttari@ed.ac.uk) or Professor Gavin Kelly (gavin.kelly@ed.ac.uk)

1.30pm, Seminar Room 1, Chrystal MacMillan Building
Wed 28 AprProfessor Chiara Tommasi (Pisa)‘Stalking the elusive Seres: Rome-China relations in Greco-Latin sources’5pm, Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College
Thu 7  MayDr Pedro Benedetti (Edinburgh)

‘Not the historians’ favourites: Ammianus and Eunapius on the Valentinians’

Co-sponsored by the ‘Last Historians of Rome’ project

5pm, G.158 Quad Teach Room, Old College
Mon 11 MayProfessor Margaret Mullett (Edinburgh)

‘Fantastic beasts and where to find them: Byzantine hybrids’

Annual Joint SPBS-ÖBG Lecture, co-hosted by CLAIBS and the A. G. Leventis Centre for Greek Studies

5.00pm, G.159 – McLaren Stuart Room, Old College
Mon 18 and Tue 19 MayCLAIBS Graduate and Early Career Conference

For more information follow the link below or contact the organisers (byzantine.pg@ed.ac.uk)

International Graduate Conference: ‘Institutional identities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages’

 
Thu 21 MayProfessor Alan Ross (Ohio State University)'Symmachus and the last historians of Rome’5pm, G.159 McLaren Stuart Room, Old College

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