Programme Winter Term 2021/22

Some of our lectures will take place online only, while others will be held in person in Vienna and broadcast online simultaneously. Online participation via the platform Zoom is open to anyone interested, the links to the lectures will be published on this website before each event. If you have never used Zoom on your device before, the programme will be downloaded automatically when you click on the link to one of our meetings.

Instructions for Zoom can be found here.

In case of technical problems before or during the session please send an email to forumantike.hkw@univie.ac.at.

Code of Conduct

By joining any of the sessions, you undertake to treat organisers, speakers and participants with courtesy as well as to support a lively debate in a spirit of collegiality and mutual respect.


Wednesday, 13 October 2021 | 17:00 (CEST)

Die letzte Königin. Die “Tomba della Regina” von Numana-Sirolo (AN), ein Schlüsselfund am Wendepunkt zweier Epochen (Abstract)
Giacomo BARDELLI (RGZM Mainz)


Wednesday, 20 October 2021 | 17:00 (CEST)

Atlas patrimonii Caesaris, a digital atlas of the properties of Roman emperors: methodological choices and representativity of the sources (Abstract)
Alberto DALLA ROSA (CNRS/Université Bordeaux Montaigne)


Wednesday, 17 November 2021 | 17:00 (CET)

Mapping Migration in Roman Iberia (Abstract)
Claire HOLLERAN (University of Exeter)


Wednesday, 1 December 2021 | 17:00 (CET)

Constantine the Reader. Exegesis and Empire in the Oration to the Assembly of the Saints (Abstract) (Handout)
Lea NICCOLAI (University of Cambridge)


Wednesday, 15 December 2021 | 17:00 (CET)

Democracy or elite ideology? Civic discourse and civic performances in Greek cities under Roman imperial rule (Abstract)
Cédric BRÉLAZ (Université de Fribourg)


Wednesday, 12 January 2022 | 17:00 (CET)

Digging deep into the cover-texts for Phylarchus’ Histories. Horizontal analysis of intermediate authors in approaching historical fragments (Abstract)
Marcin KURPIOS (Universität Wien)


Wednesday, 19 January 2022 | 17:00 (CET)

Kings on Coins before and after the Ides of March (Abstract)
Liv YARROW (City University of New York)


Wednesday, 26 January 2022 | 17:00 (CET)

Half of a dialogue. Retracing the nontextual components in Late Antique letters (Abstract)
Yasmine AMORY (Ghent University)