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

Economy and Society in Late Sasanian and Early Islamic Iraq

Rabbis in Context: Text and Archaeology in Late Antique Palestine

Late Antiquity or Byzantium: The parting of the ways, or the ways that never parted?

St Catherine's Monastery at Mount Sinai: Its Manuscripts and their Conservation

Special lectures since 2007

Charlotte Köckert (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität, Heidelberg): Conversion in Late Antique Christianity - Augustine and his Circles in Italy and North Africa'

Hillel Newman (University of Haifa): Jews and Images of the Crucifixion in Late Antiquity

Philip von Rummel (German Archaeological Institute, Rome): The Fading Power of Images: Material culture and identity in late antiquity and the early middle ages

Eric Rebillard (Cornell University): Christians and Violence against Pagans at the turn of the Fifth Century in North Africa

Term Booklets