The Late Antiquity Reading Group (LARG) is a graduate student-led group of students, faculty, and others interested in reading and discussing recent scholarship regarding the period of late antiquity (c. 3rd-7th centuries CE) in the Mediterranean and its environs.
This academic year, we will read and discuss Lenk, Roman Identity & Lived Religion: Baptismal Art in Late Antiquity (September 25); Bonar, The Author in Early Christian Literature (October 30); Mullen & Woudhuysen (eds.), Languages & Communities in the Late & Post-Roman Western Provinces (November 13); Doerfler, Death & the Afterlife in Syriac Christianity: Creating Social Identity & Emotional Communities (March 5); and Grig, Popular Culture & the End of Antiquity in Southern Gaul, c. 400–550 (April 2). Dr. Chance Bonar will join us in conversation via Zoom on October 30 and Professor Maria Doerfler will join us in conversation in person on March 5. In addition, we will host Dr. Carolyn Snively (Professor Emerita, Gettysburg College) for an invited lecture, “Late Antique Urbanism in the Balkans: Cities Old and New" (January 29). All meetings will be held in Phelps 401 at 4 PM, unless otherwise advertised. Contact co-organizers Austin Goodwin Andrews (austin.andrews@yale.edu) or Jake Horton (jacob.horton@yale.edu) with any questions.
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