Seminars
SEMINARS, AUTUMN SEMESTER 2011
12 October – Dr Sam Turner (Newcastle) and Dr Steve Roskams (York): Western Britain and the world of late antiquity – Recent fieldwork at Mothecombe, Devon
30 November – Dr Ine Jacobs (KU Leuven, Belgium): Aesthetic maintenance of civic space – the classical city from the 4th to the 7th century AD
Past Seminars
Spring Semester 2011
11 February – Dr Oliver Schmitt (Halle, Germany): Diplomacy as a substitute for declining might? Late Roman and Byzantine foreign policy from the late 3rd to the early 14th century
22 February – Dr Mary Harlow (Birmingham): And I shall wear purple: Roman attitudes to clothing behavior
9 March – Dr Peter Guest (Cardiff): Isca – recent archaeological work on the site of the legionary fortress at Caerleon
Autumn Semester 2010
13 October – Prof. Andrew Poulter (Nottingham): Unearthing a Late Roman Fortress in Bulgaria: new Results from the 2010 Season of Excavation
Spring Semester 2010
2 February – Dr Roger Rees, University of St Andrews: The artful text of Pacatus
2 March – Prof. Peter Heather (King's College, London): Predatory migration and the first millennium
24 March – Prof. Paul Reynolds (Barcelona): The supply networks of the Roman East and West: Interaction, fragmentation and the origins of the Byzantine economy
Autumn Semester 2009
28 October – Dr Gerda von Bulow (Roman/German Commission of the German Archaeological Institute, Frankfurt): The latest results: excavations at Romuliana (Gamzigrad),the palace of Galerius in modern Serbia
18 November – Prof. James Crow (Edinburgh): Bringing water to the imperial city of Constantinople
2nd March; Professor Peter Heather, King's College, London: Predatory migration and the first millennium
24th March Professor Paul Reynolds, University of Barcelona:
The supply networks of the Roman East and West: Interaction, fragmentation and the origins of the Byzantine economy
Spring Semester 2009
18 February – Dr Clive Bridger (Xanten Regionalmüseum, Germany): Recent research on the Late Roman period in Xanten and the Lower Rhineland
17 March – Dr Caroline Humfress (Birkbeck, London): Bishops and law courts in Late Antiquity: how (not) to make sense of the legal evidence
18 March – Professor Dr. Michaela Konrad (Bamberg): Late Roman and early Byzantine frontier defence in the Roman East: recent fieldwork on Roman fortifications along the Roman limes in Syria
Autumn Semester 2008
15 October – Dr Will Bowden (Nottingham): The Triconch Palace at Butrint and the archaeology of late antique urban housing
26 November – Dr John Casey (London): Saying a good word for the Late Roman army
2 December – Dr Neil McLynn (Oxford): Augustine’s Black Sheep: the case of Antoninus of Fussala
Spring Semester 2008
6 February – Dr Andy Merrills (Leicester):”The pump don't work ‘cause the Vandals took the handles”: The Vandals in the post-classical imagination
20 February – Dr Neil Christie (Leicester): Wars within the frontiers: Archaeology and civil war in the Late Empire
5 March – Prof. Marco Valenti (Siena): Tuscany between late antiquity and the early middle ages
7 March – Prof. Hugh Elton (Trent University, Canada): The Christianization of Isauria
23 April – Prof. Marc Waelkens (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven): Sagalassos from proto-urban settlement to mid-Byzantine kastron. Twenty years of holistic archaeology at Sagalassos and on its territory (SW Turkey)
Autumn Semester 2007
17 October – Dr Joanita Vroom (Sheffield): The archaeology of late antique and early Byzantine dining habits in the eastern Mediterranean
21 November – Prof. Raymond Brulet (Louvain): The character of urbanism in late Roman Gaul
5 December – Dr Dionysios Stathakopoulos (King’s College London): The plague in stone
Spring Semester 2007
25 April – Prof. John Vanderspoel (Calgary): The early life of Julian the Apostate
3 May – Prof. Joachim Henning (Frankfurt): From Constantinople to Pliska and Nitra: Archaeology and the spread of Byzantine culture in the 9th century
