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Anna Usacheva joins the EX-PATRIA Project to work on prosopography of across the (Roman-Persian) border ‘Antiochean expansion’.

In December Anna Usacheva arrived from Helsinki to join us a postdoctoral researcher.

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Discussing Trust, Uncertainty, and Knowledge bases @ the Entangled Prosopographies of the Later Roman and Byzantine Worlds event.

Presenting the first results of interdisciplinary collaboration between the EX-PATRIA Project and computer scientists from CRIStAL.

Pierre Bourhis and Ekaterina Nechaeva came to Edinburgh to share (on the 8th of December, 2023) their common work in progress with Simon Bliudze and Lionel Seinturier on dealing with uncertainty in historical databases. The Prosopon workshop was extremely stimulating to learn about all the prosopographical projects and meet the people behind them. It was an ideal place to discuss our ideas and get first-hand feedback! Bravo Pierre: a computer scientist among the historians!

Thank you Zachary Chitwood, Charalampos Gasparis, Niels Gaul, and Ekaterini Mitsiou for organising it!

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Talking about East Roman and Sasanian Empires: Nature and Causes of Conflict?

EX-PATRIA @ the Circle for Late Antique and Medieval Studies.

On December 6, 2023, Ekaterina Nechaeva participated in a panel discussion on Roman-Sasanian relations in late antique and medieval studies, together with Geoffrey Greatrex, Scott McDonough, and (literally!) hundreds of colleagues all over the world.

Thank you CLAMS and personally to Parvaneh Pourshariati and Merrill Sovner for organising such an outstanding event and for preparing the video.

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“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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SESSION: THE EDGE OF TRAITORS

24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Venice-Padua, 25/08/2022

The EX-PATRIA Project sponsored two highly successful sessions at the 24th International Congress of Byzantine Studies, Venice, Padua. Conveners: Ekaterina Nechaeva & Leif Inge Ree Petersen

See the detailed programme below

Programme

PART I: Treason and Disloyalty in Civil and Military Affairs, 4th–6th centuries

Mariana Bodnaruk, Omnia Mutescant Tempora: Memory Sanctions Against Military
Office-Holders in the Late Roman Empire (AD 354–454)
Jeroen Wijnendaele, Assassination in Military Conflict During the Late Roman Empire
(c. 354–527)
*Roland Steinacher, King Odovacar’s Whirlpool of Peoples: A Short Time Rex Italiae
Sean Strong, Bahram Chobin’s Revolt: A Sasanian Asset and Ally of East Rome in the Late
6th Century?
Alexey Muravyev, Those Perfidious Barbarians: Arabs and Goths in the 5th–6th Century
Wars on the Eastern Frontier
Ekaterina Nechaeva, Who Is to Blame? Episodes of Plots and Treason in Roman-Persian
Military Conflicts in the 6th Century
Łukasz Różycki, Traitors and Deserters as Described in Early Byzantine Military Treatises

PART II: Dissent and Collaboration in Byzantium and the World(s) beyond, 4–7th centuries

Philip Rance, Treason and Collaboration in Roman-Gothic Conflict in the 370s: Socio-
Economic and Military Contexts (via zoom)
Maijastina Kahlos, Rumors of Disloyalty and Treason in Political and Ecclesiastical
Conflicts (300–400) (via zoom)
Conor Whately, Roman Soldiers, Treason, and Collaboration during Justinian’s Reconquest
of the West
Laury Sarti, ΤΟΝ ΦΡΑΝΚΟΝ ΦΙΛΟΝ ΕΧΙC, ΓΙΤΟΝΑ ΟΥΚ ΕΧΙC? Using the Franks
to Reclaim Lombard Italy for the Empire (via zoom)
Alexander Sarantis, Inter-Communal Relations in a Byzantine Borderland: Ethnic and
Political Complexity in the Miracles of St. Demetrius, Book II
Leif Inge Ree Petersen, From Political and Religious Dissent to Treason and Collaboration:
Byzantine-Arab Warfare in the Age of Constans and Muʿāwiya (640s–660s)

edge of traitors
edge of traitors