‘East and West in Late Antiquity’ A Colloquium with Professor Noel Lenski (Yale)

Presented by the Centre for Classical Studies in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics and the School of History.

 

Afternoon tea provided - registration free

12.30pm-12.40pm Welcome and Opening Remarks. Dr Meaghan McEvoy (ANU) and Associate Professor Caillan Davenport (ANU)

 

Session 1

12.40pm-1.10pm 'Wordplay and Allegory in the Preface of Prudentius' Psychomachia'  Associate Professor Paul Roche (Sydney)

1.10pm-1.40pm 'The Circulation of Political News from Constantinople and Rome in the Fifth Century' Dr Meaghan McEvoy (ANU) and Associate Professor Caillan Davenport (ANU)

 

1.40pm-1.50pm Short Break

 

Session 2

1.50pm-2.20pm 'Episcopal Isolation and Patronage in Southwestern Gaul in the Early Fifth-century'  Mr Nelson Chen (Sydney)

2.20pm-2.50pm 'The "Distant Music of Social Radicalism": The Debate between Pelagius and Augustine and its Relevance to Music Education'  Dr Georgia Pike-Rowney (ANU)

 

2.50pm-3.30pm Afternoon Tea in the ANU Classics Museum

 

Session 3

3.30pm-4.40pm 'A Young Capital's Appetite: Constantinople's Grain Supply and the Fiscal Burden of Fourth-Century Egypt' Professor Noel Lenski (Yale)

 

4.40pm - Informal Drinks  at Badger & Co.