On behalf of the organizers of the Warsaw Late Antique Seminar of Ewa Wipszycka, we invite you to lectures organized as part of the seminar in the winter semester 2025/2026. Meetings are held on Thursdays at 4:45 PM in room 203 of the Faculty of Law and Administration and online via the Zoom platform. Contact: Agata Deptuła (agata.deptula@uw.edu.pl) and Robert Wiśniewski (r.wisniewski@uw.edu.pl). Current abstracts available on the seminar website: https://crac.uw.edu.pl/ Full program: - 2.10 Jakub Urbanik (UW), D. I 3.37 / P. Oxy. LXXXV 5495 – Consuetudo Strikes Back - 9.10 Simcha Gross (University of Pennsylvania), Good Fences Make Bad Neighbors: Communities and Empire on the Roman-Sasanian Frontier - 16.10 Zachary Herz (University of Colorado Boulder), A Fetid Jungle of Laws. The Organization of Imperial Rescripts, 160–534 C.E. - 23.10 Yitzhak Hen (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Purifying Texts in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages - 30.10 Robert Wiśniewski (UW), Was St Peter a popular saint? - 6.11 David Addison (University of Liverpool), Extraneae Feminae: Women, the Clerical Household, and the Legacy of Nicaea - 13.11 Stuart Airlie (University of Glasgow), Body Horror of the Empress and Dark Palaces of the Emperor: Rulers and Resentment c.400-c.1100 - 20.11 Roxanne Bélanger-Sarrazin (Universität Würzburg), Apocrypha, Magic, Liturgy: The Multiple identities of Coptic Prayers in Late Antique and Early Islamic Egypt - 27.11 Jean-Michel Carrié (EHESS), TBA - 4.12 Oto Mestek (Univerzita Karlova), The Disappearance of the Heruli: Justinian’s Policy Towards the Barbarian Foederati - 11.12 Paweł Nowakowski (UW) Thinking in Greek and Thinking in Aramaic: How Languages Foster Unique Ways of Processing and Expressing Thought in Late Antique Epigraphy - 18.12 Grzegorz Ochała (UW) Of Names and Meanings: Insights into Socioonomastics of Medieval Nubia - 8.01 Joanna Ciesielska (UW) The People of Soba: Bioarchaeological Perspectives on the Society and History of Medieval Alwa - 15.01 Sofía Torallas-Tovar (IAS Princeton) Writing Magic: Scribes and Magical Formularies on Papyrus - 22.01 Karl Dahm (University of Durham), Family Dramas in Late Antique Church Conflicts
