Events Archive

Events Archive - 2016

Workshop: Late Antique and Syriac Studies: Some Theoretical and Practical Issues
Wed, Dec 7, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

The talk aims to reflect on the implications the way we coin the concepts and periodisations of Late Antiquity, Byzantium, Early Islam have on our approach of the history of the Eastern Mediterranean. How do Syriac studies -a field that has been thriving in the last 15 years- fit in the picture and can help us both displace and broaden our…

Location
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 203
Speaker
Lecture: Dina Boero, “Symeon and the Making of a Monk: Stylitism and Monasticism in Late Antique Syria"
Wed, Nov 9, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm

Respondent: Jack Tannous, History

Prior to the Council of Chalcedon (451 CE), diversity characterized asceticism in late antique Syria. Canon four of the council put monasteries and individual monks under ecclesiastical jurisdiction. Consequently, post-Chalcedonian bishops and monks relegated independent ascetics to monasteries…

Location
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103
Speaker
Welcome Party
Wed, Sep 28, 2016, 6:00 pm6:00 pm
Location
Scheide Caldwell House
Lecture: Noel Lenski, “Roman Refugees: The Settlement of Immigrant Groups inside Roman Territory in the First to Seventh Centuries CE”
Wed, Sep 28, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne 010
Speaker
Princeton Graduate Student Exchange Meeting
Thu, May 19, 2016, 9:30 amFri, May 20, 2016, 5:00 pm

Sixth Annual Workshop of the Graduate Exchange in Late Antique, Byzantine and Early Medieval History Between the University of Vienna, Oxford, Mainz, Freie Universität Berlin and Princeton

Program

Thursday, May 19, 2016

9:00-11:15 a.m. Moderator: …

Location
Dickinson 210, 211
Work in Progress: Ian Wood
Mon, May 9, 2016, 5:00 pm5:00 pm
Location
Dickinson Hall, Room 211
Speaker
Peter R. Brown Reception and Festschrift
Sun, May 8, 2016, 4:00 pm4:00 pm
Location
Chancellor Green Rotunda
Lecture: Ian Wood, "Columbanus and the Sixth-Century"
Thu, May 5, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne 010
Speaker
Conference: "Framing Late Antique and Medieval Economy (F.L.A.M.E.)"
Fri, Apr 29, 2016, 1:30 pmSun, May 1, 2016, 1:00 pm

Further information is available.

Location
Friday and Saturday in East Pyne 010, Sunday in Dickinson 211
Work In Progress Talk: Matthias Tischler, "Transcultural Perspectives on the Bible from Late Antiquity to the Middle Ages"
Mon, Apr 25, 2016, 6:00 pm6:00 pm
Location
Scheide Caldwell House, Room 103
Speaker
Lecture: Jonathan Conant, "The Discomforts of Justice in Late Antiquity: Illicit Enslavement and Social Obligation at the End of Empire"
Wed, Apr 20, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne 010
Speaker
Work In Progress Talk: "Beyond Benedict: The Rule Between the Lines in Early Medieval Monasticism," Albrecht Diem and Matthieu van der Meer
Tue, Apr 19, 2016, 6:00 pm6:00 pm

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Conference: "Bishops and Generals: Transformation of Power in Late Antiquity"
Fri, Apr 8, 2016, 4:30 pmSat, Apr 9, 2016, 5:00 pm
Location
Dickinson 211
NES Graduate Seminar: Stefan Heidemann, "Balancing The Power Of The Historical Argument: Textual And Archaeological Evidence and Their Uses"
Thu, Mar 24, 2016, 1:30 pm1:30 pm
Speaker
NES Graduate Seminar: Stefan Heidemann, "A Most Versatile Source For Early Islamic History: Coins - Glimpses Of The Workings Of The Empire"
Wed, Mar 23, 2016, 1:30 pm1:30 pm
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NES Lecture: Stefan Heidemann, "The View From The Regions: The Political Geography Of The Last And Largest Empire Of Antiquity"
Tue, Mar 22, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
202 Jones Hall
Speaker
Conference: "Beyond Authority: Composition and Transmission in Late Antiquity"
Sun, Mar 20, 2016, 1:30 pmTue, Mar 22, 2016, 3:00 pm

Those planning to attend should register at http://religion.princeton.edu/beyondauthority

Location
Green Hall, Room 1-S-5
Lunchtime Seminar: Richard Payne, "The Silk Road and the Iranian Political Economy in Late Antiquity"
Wed, Mar 9, 2016, 12:00 pm12:00 pm

The horizons of the Silk Road and the Iranian Empire were largely coterminous.  The former spanned Eurasia circa 50 CE-750 CE, while the latter dominated the Near East 226-636 CE.  Trans-Eurasian trade nevertheless appears only marginally and offhandedly in current accounts of Iranian history in late antiquity.  The paper will argue that the…

Location
Green Hall, Room 1-N-5
Speaker
Lecture: David Brakke, “Shenoute the Great (347-465) and the Invention of Christian Literature: Making an Author"
Mon, Mar 7, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
McCormick 106
Speaker
Lecture: Bernadette Brooten, "Bishops versus Radical Ascetics: The Synod of Gangra (343 CE)"
Wed, Feb 17, 2016, 4:30 pm4:30 pm
Location
East Pyne 010
Speaker