Paper from the IAWC 2023

I attended the International Ancient Warfare Conference (IAWC) on 22-24 June 2023 in Bonn, Germany, delivering a paper titled ‘Roman strategy in the second Roman-Arab war (AD 654—659)’. A parallel conference was held in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for the benefit of researchers based in the US and Canada. The conference used to run quite regularl... Read more 13 Jul 2023 - 3 minute read

Contribution to Realism in Hagiography workshop

With Prof. Dr. Claudia Sode I co-hosted the international workshop ‘Realism in Hagiography’ earlier this month, on 12-13 January 2023. The format was hybrid, meeting both in-person at the University’s International House and online. We were both very pleased with how the event worked, and hope that everyone who joined us had as lovely a time as ... Read more 16 Jan 2023 - 33 minute read

Auerbach Lecture

As part of my three-month Fellowship at the Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies, I contributed to their Winter Semester 2022/2023 Lecture Series. The lecture took place at 18.00 on Monday, 9 January 2023 at the International House of the University of Cologne. The Auerbach Institute recorded the lecture, and a video of it is available ... Read more 11 Jan 2023 - 1 minute read

Realism in Hagiography Workshop Announcement

An international workshop titled ‘Realism in Hagiography’ will be hosted at the University of Cologne on 12-13 January 2023. This event is the focus for my three-month Junior Research Fellowship hosted by the Erich Auerbach Institute for Advanced Studies and partly funded thanks to the Bible in Middle Byzantine Hagiography project co-directed by... Read more 29 Nov 2022 - 2 minute read

IHAC 6th International Byzantine Seminar

A new academic year, a new seminar series! This year I will again co-host the Byzantine seminar series as part of being a Visiting Professor for the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilization (IHAC) at Northeast Normal University (NENU), Changchun, Peope’s Republic of China. The event is organized in collaboration with the Department of B... Read more 19 Aug 2022 - less than 1 minute read