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3rd Lecture Series in Late Antiquity ("When our world became Christian") organized by the Programme “Studies in Hellenic Culture”

 

Τhe Programme "Studies in Hellenic Culture" of the Open University of Cyprus (OUC) is pleased to announce the 3rd Lecture Series in Late Antiquity (“When our world became Christian”). The Series will be held this spring term (February – May 2021), online, with the participation of distinguished scholars from Cyprus, Italy and Greece. The lectures will be broadcasted live through OUC’s eLearning Platform (eClass) at the web link: https://bit.ly/3qgKCQi.

The Lecture Series, the programme of which is available on www.ouc.ac.cy, examines various aspects of the period known as Late Antiquity but tends to focus on issues of Christianization, Late Antique Archaeology, and the Eastern Roman Empire.

Convenor of the Series is Associate Professor Georgios Deligiannakis, Academic Coordinator of the BA Programme "Studies in Hellenic Culture". The Series is supported by the Student and Alumni Union of the Programme and the Aglantzia Municipality.

 

PROGRAMME OF THE LECTURE SERIES

 

 

 Date Invited Speaker  Title
25/2/2021         

Vaios Liapis,

Professor of Ancient Theater and its Reception, Open University of Cyprus

The holy man: Aspects of religious polemics during the first Christian centuries                  

11/3/2021

Isabella Baldini,

Professor of Christian and Medieval Archeology, University of Bologna

Gortyn from Paganism to Christianity in the archaeological record

18/3/2021

Ignazio Tantillo,

Professor of Roman History, University of Naples

The survival of pagan practices among Christians in northern Africa
8/4/2021

Theodoros Mavrogiannis,

Professor of Ancient History, University of Cyprus

Triparadeisos and Abai: Τhe cradle of the Macedonians of Upper Syria and the Arab kings of Emesa

22/4/2021

Athanasios Semoglou,

Professor of Byzantine Archeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Looking at the pilgrimage iconography of St. Thecla in late antiquity

6/5/2021

Stamatia Eleftheratou,

Curator, New Acropolis Museum

Tracing late antique Athens through the study of a neighbourhood to the south of the Acropolis: the case of the Makryghiannis Street plot