Douglas Whalin late antique historian

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

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

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

Review of Maréchal, Public baths and bathing habits in late antiquity in BMCR

For the Brwn Mawr Classical Review, I recently wrote a review of Sadi Maréchal, Public baths and bathing habits in late antiquity: a study of the evidence from Italy, North Africa and Palestine A.D. 285-700. Late antique archaeology (supplementary series), volume 6. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. This volume, a revision of the author’s PhD thesis,... Read more

IHAC 5th International Byzantine Seminar

This year I will help 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, People’s Republic of China. The event is organized in collaboration with the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the Unive... Read more