Guests talks

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 […]
Philipp Pilhofer gives a talk for EpIdentityWritten by on 10/14/2021
Philipp Pilhofer (Humboldt Universität Berlin) gives a talk on the sanctuary of Saint Thekla at Ayatekla, near Seleucia (today Silifke, Turkey) ‘A very pleasant spot to walk and spend time’ – Thecla’s cave at Seleucia 14 October 2021 Philipp Pilhofer, an internationally recognized authority on the epigraphy of Isauria and Cilicia (both parts of the […]
ERC-CoG project LiLa guest talkWritten by on 3/15/2021
Marco Passarotti and Francesco Mambrini from the ERC-CoG project LiLa: Linking Latin (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) give a guest talk for EpIdentity On 18 March 2020, at 4:45pm CET, prof. Marco Passarotti and dr Francesco Mambrini presented an overview of their ERC-funded project building new digital instruments for the study of lemmatized resources […]
Panayiotis Panayides gives a guest talk for EpIdentityWritten by on 3/12/2021
Dr Panayiotis Panayides gives a guest talk for our project, exploring the viewers’ impressions at the late antique inscriptions at the baths of Salamis Panayiotis Panayides is a Junior Research Fellow at CCC Oxford University, and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. His talk, Inscriptions in context: patrons and viewers at the baths of Salamis in […]