From Late Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages: A Symposium - Day 1
The Working Group on Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
The Working Group on Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages at the Centre for Medieval Studies is hosting a Symposium for scholars in the Toronto area this October 1st and 2nd. This event will feature keynotes by Nicholas Everett and Yitzhak Hen, as well as two days of panels where faculty and graduate students working in the field will present their research, followed by a reception.
Thursday, October 1st, Shook Common room
10:00-11:30 am: Keynote lecture 1
Yitzhak Hen, “The contraction of Arian identity in the post-Roman world”
11:30-12:00 pm: Coffee break
12:00-1:00 pm: Panel 1
Peter Johnsson, “Because he had no sons: using practice of adoption in Merovingian family to examine the function of fatherhood”
Valentine Pakis, “Men of Old, Men Who Grow Old, and Images of Men: A Shifting Interdiction in the Apology of Aristides”
1:00-2:30 pm: Lunch
2:30-3:30 pm: Panel 2
Eduardo Fabbro, “A useful example: Lombard women between vice and virtue”
Nicholas Wheeler, “An Historiography of Perjury: Between Ancient and Medieval Worlds”