Douglas Whalin late antique historian

Review of Religion in den Bergen in Orbis Terrarum

My review of Michael Kasper, Robert Rollinger, Andreas Rudigier, and Josef Wiesehöfer (eds.), Religion in den Bergen. Sakrale Orte, Heiligtümer, Performanz, Mythos und Alltagsleben (2023) has just been published. It appears in Orbis Terrarum vol. 22 (2024). The reviewed volume contains the proceedings of a 2021 conference on Religion in the Moun... Read more

IHAC 7th International Byzantine Seminar

This year we are holding the seventh international Byzantine seminar series at the Institute for Ancient History (IHAC) at Northeast Normal University, Changchun, Jilian Province, China. The event is organized in collaboration with the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Cologne and the Department of Historical ... Read more

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

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

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