Events

Thursday 5 June 2026, at the Australian National University, Canberra:

Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh): 'Historiography under the Valentinians'. Conference The Valentinian Dynasty (AD 364-392): An Age of Restoration and Renewal, 9.45-10.30 am, room t.b.c.

Thursday 21 May 2026, at the University of Leeds:

George Woudhuysen (University of Nottingham): 'The date of Sulpicius Victor revisited.' Rhetoric, drama and their critics: a symposium in memory of Malcolm Heath, late emeritus Professor of Greek Language and Literature at Leeds, c. 4.45 pm in Sadler Building.

Thursday 21 May 2026, at the University of Edinburgh:

Alan Ross (The Ohio State University): 'Symmachus and the Last Historians of Rome'. Last Historians of Rome Public Lecture, 5 pm in G.159 McLaren Stuart Room, Old College.

Wednesday 6 May 2026, at the University of Edinburgh:

Pedro Benedetti (State University of Sao Paulo / Edinburgh): 'Not the historians' favourites: Ammianus and Eunapius on the Valentinians'. Last Historians of Rome Public Lecture, 5 pm in McLaren Stuart Room, Old College.

Wednesday 22 April 2026, at the University of Edinburgh:

Chiara Ombretta Tommasi (University of Pisa): 'Stalking the Elusive Seres: Rome-China Relations in Greco-Roman Sources'. Last Historians of Rome Public Lecture, 5 pm in the Usha Kasera Lecture Theatre, Old College.

Tuesday 22 April 2026 on Zoom:

George Woudhuysen (University of Nottingham): 'Britain in the Later Roman Empire'. Historical Association Short Course on Britain and the Romans, 7.30pm on zoom.

Wednesday 18 March, Nottingham:

Conference

Livy in Later Antiquity

This conference explored the reception of Livy and responses to his history in later Antiquity. The speakers were: Justin Stover (Edinburgh), 'Julius Obsequens as Epitomiser of Livy'; George Woudhuysen (Nottingham), 'Livy and Aurelius Victor'; Rachel Love (Harvard), 'City, Empire, and Space in Eutropius and Festus'; David Levene (New York University, Keynote) 'Rethinking Livy in Late(r) Antiquity'. A19, Trent Building, University of Nottingham, 1.30-6.30pm.

Thursday 12 March 2026, at the University of Leeds:

Agnese Bargagna (University of Edinburgh): 'Copying What They Could Not Read: Greek Passages and Scribal Practice in Codex Vaticanus Latinus 1873 (V)'. The Long Middle Ages Seminar.

Tuesday 22 April 2026, Harvard University:

Justin Stover (University of Edinburgh): 'Early Renaissance Historiography, Matoci to Bruni'. A Conference in Honor of James Hankins, 3.25 pm, Robinson Hall (History Department Conference Room).

Wednesday 14 January, Warsaw:

International Conference

Exit Kaisergeschichte, intrat Historia Sexti Aurelii Victoris: Rethinking Modern Models of the Late Antique Latin Historiography

This conference, organised by Adam Ziolkowski (Warsaw), debated the arguments of Stover and Woudhuysen's The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor. The speakers included three project members: Gavin Kelly (Edinburgh) 'The Continuation of Victor's Lost History, AD 360-388/9'; Justin Stover (Edinburgh), 'Why a New Edition of the Historia Abbreviata'; George Woudhuysen (Nottingham), 'The "Nature of Victor's History" Revisited'. The Column Hall, Faculty of History, University of Warsaw, 9.55am-6.00pm.

Thursday 20 November 2025, at the University of Oxford:

Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh): 'Theodosius I in the works of Ausonius and Aurelius Victor'. Late Roman Seminar, 4 pm in Seminar Room, Corpus Christi College.

Monday 22 September-Wednesday 24 September 2025, Edinburgh:

International Conference

Roman History in the Carolingian World

This conference explored 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 17 July 2025, at the University of Coimbra:

Agnese Bargagna (University of Edinburgh):'"The Last Historians of Rome" and the manuscript tradition of Festus's Breviarium: some case studies'; Veronica Fiscella (University of Edinburgh): 'Humanistic collation in an annotated manuscript of the Historia Augusta'. Panel 19: Latin Manuscript Tradition between the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance: Case Studies and Research Perspectives, The 16th Celtic Conference in Classics. 10-11 am in D18, Physics Building.

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.