Centre For Late Antique Studies, St Andrews

The Centre for Late Antique Studies, the University of St Andrews, and the University of Tübingen are organising the first in a series of interdisciplinary graduate workshops. This year the topic is The First Millenium AD, and it will take place at St Andrews on 23-24 May 2019. See below for the programme.
ST ANDREWS/TÜBINGEN GRADUATE WORKSHOP THE FIRST MILLENIUM AD St Andrews, 23-24 May 2019
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We are pleased to announce our list of events for the second semester/2019. For more details, visit: https://late-antiquity.wp.st-andrews.ac.u k/events/
* Workshop: Epigraphy and Literature in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages Week 6 – 04/03 (Monday) – St Mary’s College Hall... Invited speakers: Gianfranco Agosti (Rome, La Sapienza), Jason König (St Andrews), Peter Kruschwitz (Reading), Carlos Machado (St Andrews), Elisa Merisio (Rome, La Sapienza), Jason Moralee (Massachussetts Amherst), Silvia Orlandi (Rome, La Sapienza), Beppe Pezzini (St Andrews) Andreas Rhoby (Vienna), Francesco Stella (Siena), Ida Toth (Oxford).
A University of St Andrews/Università di Roma La Sapienza workshop, funded by The British Academy.
* Jason Moralee (Massachussetts Amherst), ‘Love, Hatred, and Madness: The Emotional Lives of the Capitolium’ (a joint lecture for the Centre for Late antique Studies and the Centre for Landscape Studies) Week 6 – 05/03 (Tuesday), 5pm – School of Classics, S11
* Sebastian Schmidt-Hofner (Tübingen), ‘Quoddam sacerdotium: the Mysteries of the State and the Self-perceptions of the late Roman bureaucratic elite’ (annual lecture of the Centre for Late Antique Studies) Week 8 – 03/04 (Wednesday), 2pm – Arts seminar room 7
* Bryan Ward-Perkins (Oxford), ‘Archaeology and the end of Antiquity’ (The Student Archaeological Society of St Andrews) Week 8 – 05/04 (Friday), 5pm – School V
* Tim Greenwood (History), ‘Armenia and Iran in Late Antiquity: New Perspectives’ (a seminar of the St Andrews Institute of Medieval Studies) Week 9 – 08/04 (Monday), 1pm – Parliament Hall, South Street
* Jan Willem Drijvers (Groningen), ‘The forgotten emperor Jovian (363-364) between history and legend’ Week 9 – 09/04 (Tuesday), 5pm – School of Classics, S11
* Julia Hillner (Sheffield), ‘Helena Augusta: Writing a Life Forward’ Week 10 – 19/04 (Friday) 4pm – School of Classics, S11
* Bruce Frier (Michigan), ‘What held Roman law together?’ (Joint meeting of the Institute for Legal and Constitutional Research, University of St Andrews and the Edinburgh Roman Law Group.) 10 May (Friday) – Old Class Library, 71 South Street
* St Andrews/Tübingen Workshop: The First Millenium AD A two-day interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and early career researchers sponsored by St Leonard’s College, St Andrews. Thursday 23-Friday 24 May 2019
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Our next work in progress #seminar, 31 October at 3pm in S11: "Labyrinths of Analogy: Suzanne Lilar (1901-1992) and Neoplatonism" (Jenny Messenger)

The programme for the Work in progress seminar, St Andrews' Centre for Late Antique Studies is now online. All are welcome!
https://late-antiquity.wp.st-andrews.ac.u k/…/work-in-progr…/

Fully Funded Joint PhD Roma La Sapienza - St Andrews
The School of Classics at St Andrews and the Dipartimento of Scienze dell'Antichità of Roma La Sapienza are starting a collaborative PhD programme. Students in the programme will spend half the doctorate (18 months) in St Andrews and the other half in Rome. The thesis will be written in English. Each student will have two supervisors, one in Rome and the other in St Andrews. The programme is fully funded: St Andrews and La... Sapienza will meet the costs of fees and provide students with a stipend.
The deadline for applicants who wish to begin the programme at Rome has passed, and we now invite applications from students wishing to start the PhD at St Andrews. The deadline for applications is 31 August 2018. We expect the first student to start at St Andrews in May 2019.
Applicants will have to meet the entry requirements of both Universities. They should possess a Masters-level degree (2.1 or equivalent or higher) and an English-language certificate (IELTS 6.5, with 6.5 or higher in the written component; or TOEFL 90). The language certificate is needed before the PhD begins, not at the time of application. In addition to the entry requirements for St Andrews they will have to take a written and oral exam in English on Classical subjects.
For details of how to apply consult this page:
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/classics/pro spective/pg/apply/
Your application should be entered here:
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/s…/apply/p ostgraduate/research/
Please indicate in your personal statement that you wish to apply for the collaborative PhD programme and explain what you hope to gain from studying at both universities. The writing sample for this application should (unlike other applications to St Andrews) contain at least 10,000 words.
Applications will be considered jointly by academic staff at Rome and St Andrews.
We particularly encourage applications in the interaction between texts and material culture in late Antiquity, but we are open to applications in any field of Classics. If you have questions about the programme, please contact Alex Long (classicsdopg@st-andrews.ac.uk), Giuseppe Pezzini (gp63@st-andrews.ac.uk) and Gianfranco Agosti (gianfranco.agosti@uniroma1.it) and Roberto Nicolai (roberto.nicolai@uniroma1.it).
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This Friday, 27 April at 4pm: David Moffitt (Divinity, St Andrews) – ‘Visual exegesis of the Epistle to the Hebrews in San Vitale, Ravenna’ - St Andrews, School of Classics, S11 All welcome!
http://late-antiquity.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk /…/work-in-progre…/

Dear all, we are sad to inform that the work in progress seminar that was planned for this Wednesday (11/04) had to be cancelled for now. We will reschedule it for next semester - we will be in touch about it.

For all of those interested, James Palmer's talk on "Science and Belief in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages" on 4 April can be hear on this link:
https://merovingianworld.wordpress.com/20 18/…/05/me-talking/

We are very lucky to have Silvia Orlandi (Rome, La Sapienza) giving out third annual lecture today (Wednesday 21 February). The lecture will take place in room S11, in the School of Classics (St Andrews), and all are welcome! Silvia will speak about ‘Speeches on stone: a roadmap towards Late Antiquity through epigraphy’.

Tomorrow, Wednesday 14 February at 2pm - Rebecca Ushewood (St Andrews, Classics): ‘Becoming an Emeritus Emperor: definition, communication, and confusion’ - School of Classics, room S11. All welcome!

Gianfranco Agosti, Arianna Gullo, James Palmer, Jenny Messenger, and David Moffitt - what an exciting line-up of speakers at our Work-in-progress seminar!