IF you're in St Andrews and you're into this sort of thing, feel free to attend. My friend and wife of a former student Hiu Ki Chan is presenting on Aldhelm of Malmesbury’s Theology of Virginity and its “Dilemma” in De Virginitate...
The Centre for Late Antique Studies, the University of St Andrews, and the University of Tübingen are organising the first in a series of interdisciplinary graduate workshops. This year the topic is The First Millenium AD, and it will take place at St Andrews on 23-24 May 2019. See below for the programme.
ST ANDREWS/TÜBINGEN GRADUATE WORKSHOP
THE FIRST MILLENIUM AD
St Andrews, 23-24 May 2019
An interdisciplinary workshop generously sponsored by St Leonard's Doctoral and Postgraduate College, St Andrews
Venue: Lecture room 2, The Gateway, North Haugh
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 23 May
09.00 - Arrival and welcome
09.15-10.45 - Panel 1 (20 minutes presentations + 30 minutes questions)
* Georgios Mouratidis (St Andrews): Grants of citizenship and boule-membership to successful performers during the Empire
* Theresia Raum (Tübingen): There and back again: Herakleios and the Survival of the Eastern Roman Empire, 610-630
* Carolyn La Rocco (St Andrews): Some material evidence for inter-religious interaction on the late antique Iberian Peninsula
10.45-11.15 - Coffee break
11.15-13.15 - Panel 2 (20 minutes presentations + 40 minutes questions)
* Gabriel Gabbardo (St Andrews): Pigs and Nuns - A Julianic Anti-Christian persecution?
* Maurits De Leeuw (Tübingen): Beyond the bold bishop and the angry empress: Opposition against John Chrysostom
* Federico Montinaro (Tübingen): Abbasid Syria in the Acts of the Council of Constantinople of 869/870
* Ian D. Morris (St Andrews): A pillow of figs: Late Antique ‘sleeper’ legends in Early Muslim exegesis
13.15-14.30 - Lunch
14.30-15.00 - Research at Tübingen
15.00-16.30 - Panel 3 (20 minutes presentations + 30 minutes questions)
* Dennis Jussen (Radbout/St Andrews): The Collection and its Collective: Pliny, Pacatus, and the Panegyrici Latini
* Andreas Abele (Tübingen): Reading the ‚Dullest Epistles in the Latin Language’ by the Book. A Narratological Approach to the Letters of Symmachus
* Maria Merino (St Andrews): Riddles and Praise: A Poetic Epistle to Charlemagne
16.30-17.00: Coffee break
17.00-18.30: Plenary lecture
Prof. Mischa Meier (Tübingen): The Roman Context of Early Islam
Friday, 24 May
09.00-11.00 - Panel 4 (20 minutes presentations + 40 minutes questions)
* François Rouvinez (St Andrews): The Gospel of Mark in the Context of Ancient Biography
* Martina Vercesi (St Andrews): Quale regnum exinde iustorum! Qualis civitas nova Hierusalem!: Revelation 19 – 21 in the exegesis of the Christian communities of Roman Africa from the II to the V century.
* David De Marco (Tübingen): Augustine’s presentation of Porphyry in De ciuitate Dei 10
* Hiu Ki Chan (St Andrews): Aldhelm of Malmesbury’s Theology of Virginity and its “Dilemma” in De Virginitate
11.00-11.30 - Coffee Break
11.30-13.00 - Panel 5 (20 minutes presentations + 30 minutes questions)
* Marzia Fiorentini (St Andrews/Sapienza): Liberalitas in the 4th century: a rhetorical analysis
* Sarah Bühler (Tübingen): Ordo renascens: Coping strategies of the imperial élites in Italy, 395-493 CE
* Caroline Belanger (Tübingen/St Andrews): The Right to Roman Hegemony: Virtue and Empire in Avienus' Descriptio
13.00-14.30 - Lunch
14.30-15.00: Research at St Andrews
15.00-16.30 - Panel 6 (20 minutes presentations + 30 minutes questions)
* Paolo Tedesco (Tübingen): The Political Economy of the Late Roman Empire: An Essay in Speculation
* Cameron Houston (St Andrews): The Politics of Ethnic and Spatial Discourses Concerning Late- and Post-Carolingian Lotharingia
* Luise Nöllemeyer (Tübingen): Provence Around 900: Modern and Medieval Narratives
16.30-17.00 - Coffee Break
17.00-18.30 - Plenary Lecture
Prof. Jill Harries (St Andrews): Pliny's Private State
