Events
This list contains details of public lectures supported by the project and of guest presentations by project members. We plan to hold three conferences in the course of the project, of which details will appear here in due course.
Forthcoming events:
Past events:
Monday 22 September-Wednesday 24 September 2025, Edinburgh:
International Conference
Roman History in the Carolingian World
This conference will explore the ways in which these historians were read and copied in the Carolingian period and the role of Roman historical texts and scholarship in Carolingian intellectual life, bringing together specialists in ancient history and textual editing with scholars of early medieval Europe.
Details and programme
here.
Thursday 5 June, at the University of Edinburgh:
Brian Croke (Sydney) 'Charles Upson Clark and Ammianus Marcellinus: German and American Scholarship in the Early Twentieth Century'. Last Historians of Rome public lecture, 4.30 p.m., Teviot Lecture Theatre
Monday 31 March 2025, at Ohio State University, Columbus OH:
Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh / IAS, Princeton) 'Reinterpreting Ammianus Marcellinus: From a New Translation to a New Edition', Department of Classics events, 4.00 p.m. EST, University Hall 448.
Saturday 4 January 2025, in Philadelphia:
Justin Stover (Edinburgh) 'VTERE FELIX: Books as Objects and Ghosts of Objects', Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, 8/10.30 am, EST, Saturday 4 January, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Salon G.
Thursday 5 December 2024, at the University of Warsaw:
Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh) 'Reinterpreting Ammianus Marcellinus: A New Translation and a New Edition', Ewa Wipszycka Late Antique Seminar, 4.45 pm CET, Library of Papyrology and Roman Law (Faculty of Law), University main campus (also on zoom).
Wednesday 27 November 2024, at the University of East Anglia (Norwich):
George Woudhuysen (Nottingham) 'Tacitus in the Later Roman Empire', Christopher Harper-Bill Research Seminar in Ancient & Medieval History, 6.00 pm GMT.
Thursday 7 November 2024, at the University of Edinburgh:
Michael Kulikowski (Penn State) 'Government, Bureaucracy, and the Writing of History'. Public lecture to inaugurate the Last Historians of Rome project. 5.10 pm GMT, Teviot Lecture Theatre, Old Medical School. Reception to follow.
