Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society seminars

Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society seminars take place throughout the year and are open to all.

Seminar description

The LAMPS Seminar Series is intended to serve as an open forum for PGR students in Edinburgh and the wilder world to present and share their research, including works in progress, and gather helpful feedback from an interdisciplinary cohort.

Time and location

Unless stated otherwise, the seminars take place from 5pm to 6pm every Wednesday in the Teviot Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School, Doorway 5. When speakers are presenting online (indicated with an asterisk), we will still hold our usual in-person events.

Event schedule

Semester 2, 2024/25

DateSpeakerTitleVenue
Wed 5 MarSara Yahya Hamed (Edinburgh'Untraditional chivalry in Sir Orfeo'G.16 (Old Medical School, Doorway 4)
Wed 12 MarDaniel Claggett (Flinders)'Metal, mounds and memory: Viking boat burials in Scotland and the Isle of Man' 
Wed 19 MarAlevtina Matveeva (Lomonosov Moscow State)'From intellectual discourse to spiritual guidance and back: The correspondence between Irene-Eulogia Choumnaina and Gregory Akindynos.* 
Wed 26 MarAlex Bridges (Edinburgh)'Castration on the Nile: The treatment of Egyptian ithyphallic sculpture from the Middle Kingdom to Modernity' 
Wed 2 AprJacob Morley (Edinburgh)'Papal authority in Milan: The evolution of Roman Church Hierarchy c. 1165-1211'G.01 (50 George Square)
Mon 21 AprLeyla Zaman (Bursa Uludağ)'From State to Empire: Porphyry, stone of power and sanctity* 
Wed 30 AprCallum Hendleman (Edinburgh)'A dialogue with the dead: Grief and performance in the Threnos Epitaphios of Ioannes Chortasmenos' 
Wed 7 May Georgi Obatnin (Edinburgh)Title tbc 
Wed 14 MayLucas Butler (Edinburgh)'Empress and consul? Reassessing the reign of Eirene of Athens' 
Wed 21 MayAna Inés Aldazabal (Edinburgh)Title tbc 

Late Antique and Medieval Society (LAMPS) Array

Contact details

Other seminars within the School

The School of History, Classics and Archaeology offers an exciting programme of seminars across many subjects areas. Visit the research seminars website to find out what else is happening.

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