Past OCLA events

Opening of Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity

The Centre was opened on Friday 28 September 2007. Peter Brown (Princeton University) gave a talk entitled What's in a Name?

Text of Peter Brown's talk

Colloquia and workshops since 2007

New Cities in Late Antiquity: Documents and Archaeology (Bibliothèque de l'Antiquité Tardive 35)

Saints and Salvation: the Wilshere Collection of Gold-glass, Sarcophagi and Inscriptions from Rome and Southern Italy

Jonas of Bobbio: Life of Columbanus, Life of John of Réomé, and life of Vedast

The Saints Envisioned: Visual Representations of Saints in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries

Special lectures since 2007

Susanna Elm (Berkeley): "Eutropius the Consul - Power, Ugliness, and Late Roman Imperial Representation"

Anna Lampadari: "La conversion de Gaza au christianisme: La Vie de S. Porphyre"

Beat Brenk (Professor Emeritus, University of Basel): "The Mosaics of the Rotunda of Thessalonike"

'The Last Statues of Antiquity'

Term Booklets