In February 2022 the Oxford University Byzantine Society will host the 24th OUBS International Graduate Conference in Oxford, with papers live-streamed online. Under the overarching theme ‘Reshaping the World: Utopias, Ideals and Aspirations in Late Antiquity and Byzantium’ this conference “seeks to explore the impact utopias, ideals and aspirations had in changing the course of […]
Some of the excellent and ground-breaking research produced by contributors to the ARC Discovery project ‘Memories of Utopia: Destroying the Past to Create the Future (300–650 CE)’ is now available open access: All Essays Available All essays published in Memories of Utopia—The Revision of Histories and Landscapes in Late Antiquity (eds. Bronwen Neil and Kosta […]
Éric Fournier and Wendy Mayer (eds.) (Routledge; New York, NY: 2020) The subject of this book is the discourse of persecution used by Christians in Late Antiquity (c. 300–700 CE). Through a series of detailed case studies covering the full chronological and geographical span of the period, this book investigates how the conversion of the […]
C.L. de Wet and W. Mayer (eds.) (Brill; Leiden, 2019) In Revisioning John Chrysostom, Chris de Wet and Wendy Mayer harness and promote a new wave of scholarship on the life and works of this famous late-antique (c. 350-407 CE) preacher. New theories from the cognitive and neurosciences, cultural and sleep studies, and history of […]
In association with the Memories of Utopia project, post-doctoral research fellow Dr. Rajiv Bhola and Dr. Ryan Strickler (University of Queensland) have organised a workshop to take place at the 18th International Conference on Patristic Studies at Oxford University (19-23 August 2019). Details below: Description In Antiquity, the remembrance of the shared past – both […]
19th UNISA Classics Colloquium “The conference aims to explore a wide variety of aspects relating to the building, dismantling and reconstructing of memory and reputation across the various cultures bordering on the ancient Mediterranean, and over a wide time-frame. We know that memory and history are not fixed, objective occurrences, but are subjective representations of […]