Events and Colloquia
Saturday colloquia are held periodically through the academic year to foster informal peer discussion of research in progress both among Manchester staff and students, and with a wide spectrum of national and international visitors
- Forthcoming Events
- Topics of Previous Events
- Postgraduate/Post-Doctoral Research-in-Progress Seminar
The Centre for Late Antiquity is a community of teaching and research, and our philosophy is that researchers at all stages of expertise have a contribution to make to the on-going intellectual development of those with more experience in the field as well as to that of those with less. Postgraduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and academic staff of the Centre for Late Antiquity meet weekly to discuss their research in progress, circulating work-in-progress for feedback and discussion, with each participant having the opportunity to circulate material for feedback once per semester. These very lively discussions allow students to practice presenting their ideas orally and in writing, and foster more informal communication and mutual assistance among members of out research community. We have found that as a result of regular participation in this group, our postgraduates discover that they are unusually confident and articulate when they begin to present their work formally at conferences and job interviews.
Forthcoming Events
2007-2008The Centre for Late Antiquity is organising a conference on religion and the family entitled "Gender and Nature: Europe from Late Antiquity to Early Modernity," in collaboration with Religions and Theology, English and American Studies and CIDRA (Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in the Arts) at the University of Manchester.
For further details email Kate Cooper at kate.cooper@manchester.ac.uk
Topics of Previous Events
Saturday, 3 December 2005Postgraduate Colloquium on the History of Christianity at the University of Manchester
Ecclesiastical History Society
Postgraduate students are warmly encouraged to submit twenty-minute papers (on any topic in the history of Christianity. Click here for further information .
28-29 October 2005 The Peace in the Feud: History and Anthropology, 1955-2005
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12 February 2005The Price of Sanctity
20 Novemver 2004Late Roman Elites
21 May 2004The Monk, the Muse and the Matrona: Medical Texts, Moral Advice and Gender in Early Medieval Reichenau
17 April 2004The Two Powers: Christianity and the 'Secular' in Medieval Europe, c.300-1200
14 February 2004
Vice between Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, c. 300-1100
11 October 2003
Property, Endowment and Exchange: Dark Age Rome and Beyond
8 January 2003 Family and Monastery in Europe and the Mediterranean, 300-1100, held at Georgetown University, Washington DC (co-sponsored with the A.H.R.B. and the Medieval Studies Programme at Georgetown University)
9 March 2002
Two Capitals: Rome and Constantinople at the End of Late Antiquity (co-sponsored with the Department of Medieval History at the University of Birmingham and held there)
1 December 2001
Late Antiquity: Historiographies and Genealogies
19 May 2001 Language and Identity in Early Medieval Europe
17 Feb 2001
Competition and Exchange in the Western Mediterranean 300-700
2 Dec 2000
Women, Power, and Patronage, 300-1000
18 Mar 2000
Late Antiquity and Postmodernity
5 Feb 2000 Dark Age Rome: Infrastructure and Interaction
4 Dec 1999 Religion, Violence, and the Law in Late Antiquity
13 Mar 1999
Römische Märtyrer und ihre frühmittelalterliche Überlieferung, held at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna (co-sponsored)
21 Mar 1998
The Transformations of Spectacle
29 Nov 1997
Law and the Social Order in Late Antiquity
17 May 1997
Cultures of Masculinity in Late Antiquity
8 Mar 1997
'Ethnicity' and its Discontents
16 Nov 1996 The Transformation of the Roman Social Order