On behalf of the organisers of the Warsaw Ewa Wipszycka Late Antique Seminar, we invite you to the lectures held as part of the seminar in the summer semester 2025/2026. Meetings take place on Thursdays at 16:45 in room 203 of the Faculty of Law and Administration and online on the Zoom platform. Contact: Agata Deptuła (agata.deptula@uw.edu.pl) and Robert Wiśniewski (r.wisniewski@uw.edu.pl). Current abstracts available on the seminar website: https://crac.uw.edu.pl/. Schedule of meetings: 19.02 — Agnieszka Lic (Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, PAS): Eastern Arabia and the Gulf in the Early Islamic Period: Archaeological Perspectives on the Christianisation, Islamisation, and Urbanisation of the Region 26.02 — Mariusz Gwiazda (UW): Marmora Christiana? Marble Use and Distribution Patterns in the Early Byzantine Southern Levant 5.03 — Julia Doroszewska (UW): Subversive Sainthood: Late Antique Hagiography as Evidence for Religious Mentality 12.03 — Aaron Butts (University of Hamburg): The Connected Histories of Ethiopic and Syriac Christians 19.03 — Korshi Dosoo (CNRS, UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée, Paris): Magic by the Psalms in the Coptic Tradition 26.03 — Haggai Olshanetsky & Lev Cosijns (University of Oxford): Cluedo in the Eastern Desert: Who, or What, Killed Berenice and Myos Hormos? Plague, Climate, War or Competing Trade Routes 9.04 — John Merrington (Austrian Academy of Sciences / University of Oxford): Rationality after Rome 16.04 — Andrew Wilson (University of Oxford): The Archaeology of the Third-Century Crisis 23.04 — Maria Mossakowska-Gaubert (CNRS, UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée, Paris / UW): Silk in Late Antique Egypt: Texts and Textiles 30.04 — Anastasiia Lyakhovich (UW): Between Languages, Landscapes, and Power: Linguistic Strategies of Naming Space in Middle Byzantine and Medieval Armenian Hagiography 7.05 — Mischa Meier (University of Tübingen): Jerusalem under Heraclius (610–641): Christians, Jews, Muslims, and the End of the World 14.05 — Elisabeth R. O'Connell (British Museum): From Byzantium to Aksum: Displaying the Red Sea port of Adulis at the British Museum 21.05 — Giulia Rosetto (University of Vienna): The Sinai Palimpsests and Their Contributions to the Study of Late Antique Greek Scripts and Texts 28.05 — Kristina Sessa (Ohio State University): Disaster at Scale: Experiencing Ruinous Events in Late Antiquity
