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 Nomadic World of Late Antiquity

Villas and Politics at the End of the Western Empire

Alexandria in Late Antiquity: Education, Art and Scholarship

Special lectures since 2007

Clifford Ando (University of Chicago): Law's Empire

John Matthews (Yale): Reading the mind of a traveller: the cultural landscape of the Bordeaux itinerary

Zbigniew Fiema (University of Helsinki): Jabal Haroun: a holy mountain and Byzantine monastery in South Jordan

Lotte Hedeager (University of Oslo): Migration Period Scandinavia: Cosmological and institutional invention

Term Booklets