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- Mara Nicosia on Syriac monastic schools
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 Seminar
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 […]
- ERC grant awarded to Pawel!
In January came the happy news that Pawel was awarded with an ERC Starting grant to start a new, parallel project, based at the Faculty of History of the University of Warsaw, which will explore the changes in the culture of commemoration at the close of the Roman Imperial period, and the influence which craftsmen, […]
- Philipp Pilhofer gives a talk for EpIdentity
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 […]
- Karolina starts her Erasmus fellowship at the University of Edinburgh
On 1 October, Karolina braved the hardships of travelling during the COVID pandemics, and arrived at Edinburg, to start her Erasmus fellowship. She will work there on her BA thesis, exploring the religious use of oils by early Eastern Christians, and will stay in touch with the rest of the team, working online. Image: Stinglehammer, […]