Author: Ekaterina Nechaeva

“Gift-giving Diplomacy and the Steppe Peoples” @Northeast Normal University in Changchun

EX-PATRIA in China! Via Zoom though.  Participating in the 2023 seminar series ‘Byzantine Diplomacy in a Global Perspective’: Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations (IHAC), at Northeast Normal University in Changchun.

On 23rd October 2023 Ekaterina Nechaeva delivered a lecture on the principles of gift-giving in Late Antiquity, in particular on the symbolic diplomacy between Rome and the steppe peoples. Many thanks to all the colleagues from the Northeast Normal University in Changchun and personally to Li Qiang for the invitation and brilliant organisation.

EX-PATRIA at the Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity -XV: ‘Romans in New Worlds: Considering “Global Late Antiquity”’.

Ekaterina Nechaeva attended the Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity -XV conference held in September 2023 at the University of Santa Barbara.

With it focus on Global Late Antiquity the conference was an ideal occasion to share the EX-PATRIA work, discuss, and learn a lot from colleagues.

Post-Doctoral Position in Late Antiquity (1-2 years, full time, starting from October 2023)

We are looking for a post-doctoral researcher to work within the theme of the EX-PATRIA project at the Research Center UMR 8164-HALMA. Their main task will be to contribute to the prosopographical database of Late Antique migrants who were crossing the border between the Roman and the Sasanian empires. The more precise thematic and geographical foci of this prosopographical work, as well as its principal source base, will depend on the candidate’s profile and specialisation.

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