Late Antiquity
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Late Antiquity
This interdisciplinary seminar brings together faculty and advanced graduate students whose research lies in the Mediterranean world of late antiquity. The range of the seminar includes the Mediterranean world of the third century C.E., defined primarily by the dominant Roman Empire; the fundamental transformations that characterized the fourth and fifth centuries, from the development of Christianity as a political power, to the collapse of the western empire and its division into various barbarian kingdoms, to the establishment of a single imperial power in Constantinople; and the new religion of Islam and further momentous transformations that ended the fundamentally Roman unity of the late antique period. The participants in this seminar are not only based in different departments, but also come from different disciplinary backgrounds. Each possesses specialist knowledge, language skills, and methodological approaches to textual and material evidence that can help inform the research of the others.
This seminar is sponsored in partnership with the Marco Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
Events
Spring 2024 All meetings are on Wednesdays from 3:00-4:30 PM ET and will be held in a hybrid format in Cherokee Mills Ste. 223 (2230 Sutherland Ave.) and via Zoom. Contact the organizers for link.
Feb. 5 – Leonora Neville – UTHC Distinguished Lecture
Mar. 6 – Gregor Kalas – discussion of draft book chapter, “Xenodochia and the Rhetoric of Architectural Preservation”
Apr. 3 – Felege Yirga
May 15 – TBA
Contact
Jacob Latham
Department of History
spqr@utk.eduTina Shepardson
Department of Religious Studies
cshepard@utk.eduGregor Kalas
School of Architecture
gkalas@utk.edu