The CSLA graduate student book club meets throughout the academic year to discuss new books in the field of Late Antiquity, broadly construed. For information, please contact Shira Mogil.

2023 - 2024

• April 16, 2024 - Corisande Fenwick, Early Islamic North Africa: A New Perspective
• February 27, 2024 - Kate Cooper, Queens of a Fallen World 
• January 20, 2024 - Paul Stephenson, New Rome: The Empire in the East
• December 4, 2023 - A.J. Berkovitz, A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity
• October 30, 2023 - Peter Brown, Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History

2022-2023

• April 25, 2023 - Meir M. Bar-Asher, Jews and the Qur'an
• March 21, 2023 - Johannes Zachhuber, The Rise of Christian Theology and the End of Ancient Metaphysics: Patristic Philosophy from the Cappadocian Fathers to John of Damascus
• February 21, 2023 - editors, Kate Cooper and Jamie Wood, Social Control in Late Antiquity: The Violence of Small Worlds
• January 17, 2023 - Stephen J. Shoemaker, Creating the Quran: A Historical-Critical Study
• October 25, 2022 -  Michael J. Decker, The Sasanian Empire at War: Persia, Rome, and the Rise of Islam
• October 4, 2022 - Robin Jensen, From Idols to Icons: The Emergence of Christian Devotional Images in Late Antiquity
• November 29, 2022 - Jean-Luc Fournet, The Rise of Coptic: Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antiquity 

2021-2022

• May 19, 2022 - Simon Goldhill, The Christian Invention of Time: Temporality and the Literature of Late Antiquity
• April 14, 2022 - Jason Sion Mokhtarian, Rabbis, Sorcerers, Kings, and Priests: The Culture of the Talmud in Ancient Iran
• March 24, 2022 - Todd Berzon, Classifying Christians: Ethnography, Heresiology, and the Limits of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
• February 17, 2022 - Mary Farag, What Makes a Church Sacred
• January 27, 2022 - Beatrice Gruendler, The Rise of the Arabic Book
• November 4, 2021 - Sean Leatherbury, Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity: Between Reading and Seeing. Image, Text, and Culture in Classical Antiquity
• October 7, 2021 - James Howard-Johnston, The Last Great War of Antiquity

2020-2021

• October 16, 2020 - Jean-Luc Fournet, The Rise of Coptic: Egyptian versus Greek in Late Antiquity
• November 13, 2020 - Kristina Sessa, Daily Life in Late Antiquity
• November 24, 2020 - Judith Herrin, Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe
• January 21, 2021 - Nicola di Cosmo and Michael Maas, Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250-750, ed.
• February 24, 2021 - Roland Betancourt, Byzantine Intersectionality
• March 24, 2021 - Sean Anthony, Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam
• April 21, 2021 - Maia Kotrosits, The Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity
• May 26, 2021 - Jason Moralee, Rome’s Holy Mountain: The Capitoline Hill in Late Antiquity
• June 23, 2021 - Philip Wood, The Imam of the Christians: The World of Dionysius of Tel-Mahre, c. 750–850

2019-2020

• October 16, 2019 - Gregory Halfond, Bishops and the Politics of Patronage in Merovingian Gaul
• November 12, 2019 - Jennifer Bary, Bishops in Flight: Exile and Displacement in Late Antiquity
• December 10, 2019 - Amelia R. Brown, Corinth in Late Antiquity: A Greek, Roman and Christian City
• January 21, 2020 - Walter Scheidel, Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and teh Road to Prosperity
• February 18, 2020 - Marina Rustow, The Lost Archive: Traces of a Caliphate in a Cairo Synagogue
• March 24, 2020 - Maria Doerfler, Jephthah's Daughter, Sarah's Son: The Death of Children in Late Antiquity
• April 30, 2020 - Michael Koortbojian, Crossing the Pomerium: The Boundaries of Political, Religious, and Military Institutions from Caesar to Constantine
• June 11, 2020 - Dimiter Angelov, The Byzantine Hellene: The Life of Emperor Theodore Laskaris and Byzantium in the Thirteenth Century
• July 16, 2020 - Jonathan Shea, Politics and Government in Byzantium: The Rise and Fall of the Bureaucrats

2018-2019

• October 16, 2018 - Stephen Davis, The Early Coptic Papacy
• November 6, 2018 - Michael Edward Stewart, The Soldier’s Life: Martial Virtues and Manly Romanitas in the Early Byzantine Empire
• November 19, 2018 - A. Asa Eger, The Islamic-Byzantine Frontier
• December 10, 2018 - Christian Sahner, Christian Martyrs Under Islam
• January 28, 2019 - Jack Tannous, The Making of the Medieval Middle East
• February 18, 2019 - Stephen J. Shoemaker, The Apocalypse of Empire
• March 6, 2019 - Kate Wilkinson, Women and Modesty in Late Antiquity
• March 27, 2019 - Maya Maskarinec, City of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages
• April 23, 2019 - Anthony Kaldellis, Romanland
• May 16, 2019 - Timothy Power, The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate, AD 500-1000

2017-2018

• October 3, 2017 - Khodadad Rezakhani, ReOrienting the Sasanians : East Iran in Late Antiquity
• October 26, 2017 - Kyle Harper, The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease, and the End of an Empire
• November 15, 2017 - Shahab Ahmed, Before Orthodoxy: The Satanic Verses in Early Islam
• November 29, 2017 - Edward Watts, Hypatia: The Life and Legend of an Ancient Philosopher
• December 13, 2017 - Eve Krakowski, Coming of Age in Medieval Egypt: Female Adolescence, Jewish Law, and Ordinary Culture
• March 6, 2018 - Noel Lenski, Constantine and the Cities
• March 28, 2018 - Derek Krueger, Liturgical Subjects: Christian Ritual, Biblical Narrative, and the Formation of the Self in Byzantium
• May 8, 2018 - Azia al-Azmeh, The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Allāh and his People
• May 29, 2018 - Jennifer A. Rea and Ilustrated by Liz Clarke, Perpetua's Journey

2016-2017

• October 5, 2016 - Richard Payne, A State of Mixture: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity
• October 19, 2016 - Shahab Ahmed, What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic
• November 17, 2016 - George E. Demacopoulos, The Invention of Peter
• December 6, 2016 - Shai Secunda, The Iranian Talmud
• February 15, 2017 - Walter D. Ward, Mirage of the Saracen
• March 8, 2017 - Martha Himmelfarb, Jewish Messiahs in a Christian Empire
• March 27, 2017 - Paolo Squatriti, Landscape and Change in Early Medieval Italy
• April 19, 2017 - Matthew P. Canepa, The Two Eyes of the Earth: Art and Ritual of Kingship between Rome and Sasanian Iran
• May 16, 2017 - Kevin T. van Bladel, From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes

2015-2016

• November 12, 2015 - John Gager, Who Made Early Christianity?: The Jewish Lives of the Apostle Paul
• December 3, 2015 - Edward J. Watts, The Final Pagan Generation
• January 7, 2016 - Daniel Boyarin, A Traveling Homeland: The Babylonian Talmud as Diaspora
• January 21, 2016 - Robin Lane Fox, Augustine: Conversions to Confessions
• February 9, 2016 - James Palmer, The Apocalypse in the Early Middle Ages
• February 23, 2016 - Anthony Kaldellis, The Byzantine Republic
• March 8, 2016 - Peter Frankopan, The Silk Roads
• April 12, 2016 - John Haldon, The Empire That Would Not Die: The Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival, 640-740 (Carl Newell Jackson Lectures)
• April 26, 2016 - Peter R. Brown, "Treasure in Heaven: The Holy Poor in Early Christianity"

2014-2015

• March 1, 2015 - Douglas Ryan Boin, Coming Out Christian in the Roman World: How he Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar's Empire
• April 9, 2015 - Robert Bartlett, Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things? Saints and Worshippers from the Martyrs to the Reformation
• May 6, 2015 - Peter R. Brown, Ransom of the Soul

2013-2014

• April 16, 2013 - Glen Bowersock, The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam
• May 3, 2013 - Candida Moss, The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom
• May 12, 2013 - Valerie Hansen, The Silk Road: A New History
• May 27, 2013 - Garth Fowden, Before and After Muhammad: The First Millennium Refocused
• September 20, 2013 - Giorgio Aamben, The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life
• November 20, 2013 - Kyle Harper, From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity