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

After Rome: Augustinian Approaches

27 February 2010

History and Identity in the Eastern Mediterranean 500-1000

13 February 2010

Beyond the End of Sacrifice

07 November 2009

Mellon Sawyer Seminar

08 October 2009

Special lectures since 2007

Eberhard Sauer (Edinburgh University) and Hamid Omrani Rekavandi (ICHHTO, Gorgan): Sasanian Frontier Walls and Fortresses in northern Persia: Results of the joint Iranian and British Project (2005-2009)

26 November 2009

Seth Schwartz (Columbia University): Were the Rabbis Roman?

21 October 2009

Roger Bagnall (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York): Trimithis: A Late Antique City in an Egyptian Oasis

21 May 2009

Isaiah Gafni (Hebrew University, Jerusalem): Jews and Judaism in Late Antiquity: Can Texts (Still) Tell the Tale?"

18 May 2009

Term Booklets

Michaelmas Term 2024