‘East and West in Late Antiquity’ A Colloquium with Professor Noel Lenski presented by the ANU Centre for Classical Studies (SLLL) & ANU School of History
 

Program

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.