Upcoming project events
Land and Power in the Later Roman World: Tübingen, 29 June to 1 July 2026.
Past project events
Land & Loyalty: Initial Workshop (advisory board + team members): St Andrews, 7-8 November 2024.
Land and Loyalty: The Political Use of Land Grants in a Comparative Perspective: St Andrews, 10-12 December 2025. See write-up and programme here.
Activities elsewhere
08/07/2026 Dr Giordana Franceschini, moderator— Leeds International Medieval Congress, strand “Remembering Walter Goffart, IV: Migration, Remuneration, and Allocation” (organiser Jeroen Wijnendaele.)
06/07/2026 Dr Giordana Franceschini, “Confiscation of Non-Orthodox Land: Church, Imperial Authority, and Landholding in Late Antiquity”— Leeds International Medieval Congress, strand “Orthodoxy and Economy in Late Antiquity 300-600” (organisers Cinnamon Ducasse & Mateusz Fafinski.)
06/07/2026 Dr Becca Grose, “Wives, Sisters, and Landlords: Gothic Women and Gendering Orthodox Economics in the Ravenna Papyri” — Leeds International Medieval Congress, strand “Orthodoxy and Economy in Late Antiquity 300-600” (organisers Cinnamon Ducasse & Mateusz Fafinski.)
11/03/2026 Dr Becca Grose, “Land Distribution and Family Repercussions in the Late Roman World: East and West”, Centre for Late Antique Studies Work-in-Progress Seminar, University of St Andrews.
6/02/2026 Dr Giordana Franceschini, “Fiscalità, gestione della terra ed ecologia: ius emphyteuticarium nella Tarda Antichità“, Invited Speaker, “La terra, il lavoro dell’uomo, la natura da preservare” in “Ecology and Christianity in Late Antiquity (4th − 6th AD ) – EChLA : Second Meeting”, Perugia.
26/01/2026 Dr Giordana Franceschini, “«Si quidem tanta emerserit clades»: diritto, ambiente e sfruttamento della terra nell’enfiteusi zenoniana”, Invited Speaker, Seminar “Di alcune leges imperiali tardoantiche su enfiteusi e proprietà fondiaria: un dialogo italo-tedesco”, Seminario delle Cattedre di Diritto romano e Fondamenti del diritto europeo, Università del Salento.
08/01/2026 Dr Giordana Franceschini, “L’enfiteusi nella politica fondiaria nell’Impero tardoantico”, Invited Speaker, Seminario del Dottorato in Studi Storici: “Legal culture in Historical Perspective” – “Amministrare la terra nel rispetto del volere di Dio. L’importanza dei diritti reali su cosa altrui”, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II.
02/12/2025 Professor Carlos Machado, “Justiça divina e justiça social na Antiguidade Tardia” — Invited speaker, 25th Congress of the Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, “Justiça, Beleza e Conhecimento: da Antiguidade aos nossos dias”, State University of Campinas.
28/11/2025 Dr Giordana Franceschini, “Reforming Justinian’s Empire: The Praetorian Prefect John the Cappadocian” — Research Seminar, School of Classics, University of St Andrews.
13/11/2025 Professor Carlos Machado, “The Mechanics of Responsive Governance in the Late Antique West, AD 300-600” — Invited speaker, Conference “Responsive Governance and Population Well-Being in Later Antiquity (3rd – 6th c. AD)”, University of Stellenbosch.
7/11/2025 Dr Becca Grose, “Contesting Land Grants in the Merovingian World: Information Asymmetry, Information Access, and Shifting Gendered Impacts?” — Workshop: Heterarchies and Power Dynamics in Post-Roman Europe (4th-10th Cen. AD), University of Bonn.
10/2025 Professor Carlos Machado, “Terra e política: uma nova visão do fim do mundo antigo”, Lecture, Assis (Brazil).
24/06/2025 Professor Carlos Machado, “Justiça Social e experiência subalterna no Ocidente tardo-antigo, 300-600 d.C.”, Seminar, Projeto Temático “Uma História Conectada da Idade Média”, University of São Paulo.
30/05/2025 Dr Giordana Franceschini, “La relazioni tra il prefetto al pretorio d’Oriente e gli Augusti a Costantinopoli” — Lecture Series, “Incontri Sulla Storia Romana”, Universita Roma Tre.
23/10/2024 Dr Becca Grose, “Mixed-Status Marriage and Marital Contracts in Late Roman North Africa, 350-550 AD” — Earlier Middle Ages Seminar, King’s College London/Institute for Historical Research.
22/10/2024 Professor Carlos Machado, “The Poverty of Envy: Social Competition and the Economic Strategy of Subaltern Groups in the Late Antique West” — Lecture Series, “L’invidia sociale. Competizione, concorrenza, ambizioni (I secolo a.C.-III sec. d.C.)”, Universita degli Studi di Milano.
13/4/2024 Professor Carlos Machado, “Social Justice and Subaltern Experience in Late Antique Italy”, — Byzantine Spring Symposium, University of Kent.