CLANS (Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar)

Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar (CLANS): Lent Term 2026

Tuesday 24 February, 5.00 - 6.30 pm, room G.21, Faculty of Classics

Mehdy Shaddel (Cambridge): The Pursuit of Millenium, or Power? Eschatology as Revolutionary Ideology in Early Islam

Tuesday 10 March, 5.00 - 6.30 pm, room G.21, Faculty of Classics

Angelo Gargiulo (Ghent): John Philoponus and Olympiodorus: Meteorology as a way of life?

Friday 24 April, Details to be confirmed

One-day workshop and roundtable discussion: The Trade in Religious Imagination in Late Antiquity

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