CLANS (Cambridge Late Antique Network Seminar)

Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminar (CLANS): Michaelmas Term 2024

All seminars will be held on the following Mondays, 2.00 - 3.30 pm, in the Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity

Organisers: Mathijs Clement (mjgc3), Lea Niccolai (ln294), Harvey Phythian (hcp41)

Monday 21 October:

Peter Sarris, 'Justinian, the Empire, and the Church'

Monday 4 November:

Lea Niccolai, 'Exegesis and Zoology in Origen and Porphyry'

Monday 18 November:

Thomas Graumann, 'Arguments and Argumentation in late antique church councils'

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