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

Raising Children in Late Antiquity

10 March 2012

From Polis to Madina: New Research into Byzantine and Umayyad Urbanism in the Near East

04 February 2012

Rulers and the Patronage of Buildings in the 5th- and 6th-century Mediterranean

11 June 2011

Book Production in the Byzantine World

04 June 2011

Special lectures since 2007

Oded Irshai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Blood in the Streets: Jewish-Christian Violence in Early Fifth-Century Alexandria

29 May 2013

Robin Fleming (Boston College): Women, Children and Hard-working Men in Fifth- and Early Sixth-Century Lowland Britain

04 March 2013

Ray Van Dam (University of Michigan): Big Cities, Migration, and Food in Late Antiquity

01 November 2012

Virginia Burrus (Drew University): Helia, Girl Sophist: Christianity and the Feminization of Rhetorical Voice

12 October 2012

Term Booklets

Michaelmas Term 2024