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

The Arts of Domination from Augustus to Theodoric

Christianity and Politics in Late Antiquity: From Rome to Berlin

Translation and linguistic mediation in the late antique and medieval empires of the East

Approaching Ephesus: Theology, Politics and Rhetoric at the Council of 431

Special lectures since 2007

Elizabeth Zadora-Rio (CNRS Tours): From Roman to early medieval settlement in France: village layout and buildings, c.300-900

Peter Adamson (King's College London): The early reception of late antique philosophy in Islam

Guy G. Stroumsa (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Sacrifice and martyrdom in the Roman Empire

Sauro Gelichi (Università di Venezia): Local exchange - international exchange. The economy of northern Italy from Lombard to Carolingian times

Term Booklets