Guests talks

Emiliano Fiori presents on apocryphal writingsWritten by on 5/9/2022
On 12 May, the Warsaw Late Antique Seminar hosted our project’s guest Emiliano Bronisław Fiori (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia) with a talk tilted „Re-thinking the hereafter in Egypt during the Origenist crisis: The Apocalypse of Paul”. Emiliano is an ERC grant holder exploring Syriac apocryphal traditions of Late Antiquity. Abstract: The Apocalypse of Paul, or […]
Marlena Whiting gives a guest talk for EpIdentityWritten by on 4/6/2022
Our project hosts yet another guest talk – on 11 April Marlena Whiting (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz / Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), a member of the DFG-funded project “Procopius and the Language of Buildings”, will come to Warsaw to read a paper “What’s in a title? Late antique ‘matronage’ through the lens of church dedicatory inscriptions” during the […]
Piotr Głogowski gives a guest talkWritten by on 3/30/2022
On 28 and 29 March, our project hosted dr Piotr Głogowski, a researcher in quantitative epigraphy based in Wrocław. Piotr gave a talk titled “The epigraphic culture of southern Levant in antiquity” at the papyrological and epigraphical seminar, and then participated in our project meeting, offering useful hints on completing our lists of editions of […]
Mara Nicosia on Syriac monastic schoolsWritten by on 1/22/2022
On Thursday, 27 January 2022, our project is hosting another guest speaker! Mara Nicosia (Universiteit Gent) will give a talk titled: “Syriac monastic schools and the teaching of rhetoric”. Since education was crucial for the spread of languages and varieties of a given language, and could subsequently result in different preferences for language choices, this […]
E-Twoto team hosted at the Warsaw Late Antique SeminarWritten by on 1/21/2022
On 20 January our team hosted Jimmy Daccache (Yale) and Flavia Ruani (CNRS) from the project ‘E-Twoto: Digital Paleography of Syriac Inscriptions’ which has just been launched thanks to the funding of PSL-Scripta, Paris, while the third member of this project, Simon Brelaud (University of California, Berkeley), joined us online. Their experience proved invaluable to boost our […]