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  • A new paper by Pawel is published

    A new paper by Pawel Nowakowski, “Do not focus on their barbarous tongue”: The Languages of Monks and Ascetics of Early Byzantine Syria”, was published this week in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 64/3 (2024). This is a fully Open Access CC-BY 4.0 publication which you can read under this link.

  • FNP START Scholarship for Martyna Świerk

    Many congratulations to our postdoc Martyna Świerk!! Today, she was awarded the START Scholarship by the Foundation for Polish Science, one of the most prestigious prizes for early career researchers in Poland. At the same, she is the second EpIdentity project member who gest this awesome prize (after Tomasz Barański in 2023). https://www.fnp.org.pl/konkurs-start-2024-rozstrzygniety/

  • Pawel Nowakowski gives a paper at the Late Antique Seminar in Warsaw

    On 11 April 2024, Pawel Nowakowski gave a paper at the Late Antique Seminar convened by Ewa Wipszycka-Bravo and Robert Wiśniewski, one of the most important history seminars at our University. Pawel’s paper was titled: ‘I pray, do not focus on their barbarous tongue.’ The written and spoken languages in monasteries of early Byzantine Syria, […]

  • Martyna at the 8th Epigraphy.info Workshop in Berlin

    Martyna Świerk participated in the poster session of the 8th Epigraphy.info Workshop in Berlin. She presented a poster titled “Individualism and the Community Facing the Cultural Changes: EPIDENTITY Project”, in which she explored the digital infrastructure behind our research – she explained the principles behind the database which is now under construction and its “three pillars” which list […]

  • Pawel’s paper in Brill’s Kudos collection

    Pawel Nowakowski’s paper “Of Presbyters and Stonemasons, or Switching Codes in a Syrian Village” recently published in: Y. Minets, P. Nowakowski (eds.), Shaping Letters, Shaping Communities: Multilingualism and Linguistic Practice in the Late Antique Near East and Egypt (Texts and Studies in Eastern Christianity, Volume: 33, Leiden: Brill, 2023), 50–78 was chosen for presentation on Brill’s Kudos […]