Call for papers: Intercultural Exchange in Late Antique Historiography
The research group Late Antique historiography (http://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/home) at Ghent University is organising a workshop on
historiography and intercultural exchanges in Late Antiquity (300-800 AD), on 16-18 September 2015.
The workshop aims at engaging affirmed scholars as well as young researchers in an interdisciplinary discussion over cross-cultural contacts in Late Antiquity and their impact on the historiographical production in different languages, Latin, Greek, Armenian, Syriac, Persian, Coptic, Georgian, Arabic.
Confirmed speakers include:
A. Camplani (Rome), C. Zuckerman (Paris), F. Montinaro (Köln), P. Wood (London), A. Rigolio (Oxford), J. Scheiner (Göttingen), R. Forrai (Odense).
We welcome 500 word proposals for papers of 25 minutes, to be submitted before 31 December 2014 to Panagiotis Manafis (panagiotis.manafis@ugent.be). Participants are asked to read the position
paper posted on the website http://www.late-antique-historiography.ugent.be/conferences.