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

Late Antique Iconoclasms

The Mediterranean in Late Antiquity

The Heroic Age of Archaeological Research in the Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East, ca. 1860-1950

Greater Syria from Late Antiquity to Islamic Times

Special lectures since 2007

Jean-Pierre Sodini (Paris I - Sorbonne): New Results from Excavations at Qal'at Sem'an (1999-2010)

Noel Lenski (University of Colorado at Boulder): Slavery and Society in Merovingian Gaul (with SCIO)

Andrea Augenti (University of Bologna at Ravenna): Classis - the birth, life and death of Ravenna's port

Michael Stone (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): 'The Armenian appropriation of biblical themes, and creation of apocryphal literature'

Term Booklets