Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society seminars

The Late Antique and Medieval Postgraduate Society seminar series offers postgraduate students from Edinburgh and beyond and open forum to present their research, be it complete papers or works-in-progress, to an interdisciplinary audience of peers working with the fields of late antique and medieval studies. We encourage the attendance of anyone who is interested in these fields, irrespective of level of study or membership of the University.

Time and location

Seminars are held at 5-6pm, for locations and links please join the LAMPS mailing list or follow them on Instagram (@lampsedinburgh).

Mailing list

If you would like to receive information on LAMPS activities, please send an email to lampsedinburgh@gmail.com

Event schedule

Semester 1, 2026/27

DateSpeakerTitleNotes

Thu 1 Oct

Cancelled due to Strikes

N/A

Thu 15 Oct

Fletcher Erskine, University of Edinburgh

Paper Title: On the Origins and Transmission of MS Gotha. II 125

Veronica Fiscella, University of Edinburgh

Paper Title: - A Forgery within the Forgery?The Historia Augusta in the Late  Middle Ages

In person/Hybrid

Thu 29 Oct

Sabrina Scott, University of Edinburgh

Paper Title - “thy Idoll made”: Dramatic Reception of Mary Sidney’s Antonius (1590-1606)

Audrey Zhang, UCL

Paper Title - Decorative Mural Polychromy in the French Medieval  Revival, 1830-70

In Person/Hybrid

Thu 26 Nov

Chandini Jaswal , Panjab University India

Paper Title - The Many “Rāmāyaṇas” of Mughal India: Exploring Jaipur, Freer and Doha Rāmāyaṇa Folios of the Mughal Empire.

Anna Dvorakova, University of Aberdeen

Paper Title - From “Judaising Threat” to Christian Idols: The Reinvention of the Maccabean Cult in

Late Antique Antioch

In person/Hybrid

Wed 9 Dec

Special Collections Workshop

In person

Thu 10 Dec

Professor Charles West, University of Edinburgh

Paper Title - Kings, Queens, and Shocked Scribes: Revisiting the Lother II Divorce Scandal

In Person

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