University of California
Los Angeles


The Graduate Student
Association
for the Study of
Late Antiquity


Contact Information

E-mail
walterward2@hotmail.com
(Walter Ward)

Contact Address
The First Annual University of California Conference on Late Antiquity
c/o The UCLA Center for
Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Box 951485
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1485

The Call for Papers can be viewed here.


Past Conferences

The Third Annual UCLA
Graduate Late Antiquity
Conference

Saturday, 4 April 1998

The Fourth Annual UCLA
Graduate Late Antiquity
Conference

Saturday, 10 April 1999

The Fifth Annual UCLA
Graduate Late Antiquity
Conference

Saturday, 15 April 2000

The Sixth Annual UCLA
Graduate Late Antiquity
Conference

Saturday, 12 May 2001

The Seventh Annual UCLA
Graduate Late Antiquity
Conference

Saturday, 6 April 2002

The Eighth Annual UCLA
Graduate Late Antiquity
Conference

Saturday, 5 April 2003

The Ninth Annual UCLA
Graduate Late Antiquity
Conference

Saturday, 1 May 2004

The Tenth Annual UCLA Graduate Late Antiquity Conference

Saturday, 2 May 2005

The Graduate Student Association for the Study of Late Antiquity supports the study of the transformation of the classical world into Byzantium, the Latin Medieval West, and the Islamic Near East. We seek to bring together scholars from various disciplines in order to examine aspects of that transformation, including political, religious, cultural and socioeconomic change.


First Annual University of California Conference on Late Antiquity

 

May 26-27, 2006

 All events take place at UCLA in the History Department Conference Room, Bunche Hall, Room 6275. Refreshments will be served. Advance registration not required. No fee.

  

Friday May 26, 2006  

 4:00 - 5:00 "Where is the Archaeology of Arianism?" 

Bryan Ward-Perkins (Trinity College, Oxford)

 

 Saturday May 27, 2006

 

Registration and Coffee 9:30-10:00 

 

 Religion in the Late Antique World 10:00-11:45

 

"The Treason of Theology: The Ambiguous case of Maximus the Confessor and Pope Martin

Ben Delee (UCLA)

 

"Between Rome and Jerusalem: Jewish Elite Women, Euergetism, and NaziritePractice" 

David Levinsky (Stanford)

 

"By nature a woman": Virginity and Fertility in the 5th to 7th C. Byzantine Hagiographical Motif of the Woman Disguised as Monk" 

Melissa Cocks (UCLA)

 

Lunch Break 11:45-1:15

 

Identities and Connections   1:15 - 3:00

 

"Gainas the Goth and Symeon the Bulgarian: Imagined History and the Exclusion of the Non-Romans from the Oikumenê in the Tenth Century" 

Boris Todorov (UCLA)

 

"Christian Virtus" 

Ryan Hodgkinson (UCLA)

 

"Cities of Sinners, Cities of Angels: Urban Life and Civic Elites in LateAntique Greece" 

Amelia Brown (Berkeley)

 

The Fall of Rome   5:00-6:00

 

Bryan Ward-Perkins (Trinity College, Oxford) discusses his recent work, "The Fall of Rome"

 

Book website: http://www.us.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/HistoryWorld/Ancient/Roman/?view=usa&ci=0192805649

 

For more information, contact Walter Ward, Conference Coordinator at walterward2@hotmail.com

 


 

Directions and Parking Information

The conference will be held in Bunche Hall on the UCLA campus, in Room 6275. Room 6275 is the history conference room on the six floor of Bunche Hall, next to the history department main office.

Directions to UCLA:
http://www.transportation.ucla.edu/parking/spdirect.HTM

The best place to park is Parking Structure 3.  Go down Sunset Blvd to the east (away from the ocean) and turn right on Hilgard.  Take a right on Wyton.  Go to the transportation booth and ask for directions to Lot 3.  The parking pass will cost $8.

The link below provides a map of event locations, parking and information booths, and parking structures (click on "Bunche Hall"):
http://www.transportation.ucla.edu/eventmap/eventmap.html

 


Sponsored By

The University of California Multicampus Research Grant on the History and Culture of Late Antiquity

The UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies


Site Credits

Image:
Barbarini Ivory
Musée de Louvre, Paris
André Grabar,
The Golden Age of Justinian (Odyssey Press, New York: 1967) 279.

Last Modification Date Feb 8, 2006