Source: Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity.
AFTERNOON COLLOQUIUM
Saturday 10 March 2012
Corpus Christi College,
MBI al-Jaber Auditorium
13:30–15:20
Laurence Brockliss (University of Oxford): The Historiography of Childhood
Brigitte Pitarakis (Comité Français des Études
Byzantines): “Moulding wax”: The material
culture of childhood in Late Antiquity and early medieval Byzantium
RESPONSE: Arietta Papaconstantinou
15:20: Tea/coffee
15:40–18:30
James Corke-Webster (University of Manchester): An unusual childhood: Origen’s upbringing in
Eusebius of Caesarea’s Ecclesiastical History
Caroline Schroeder (University of the Pacific): Monks and their children: family and
childhood in early Egyptian monasticism
RESPONSE: Kate Cooper
18:30: Drinks reception
The event is free but please register with Jenny
Thompson: jenny.thompson@history.ox.ac.uk
The colloquium is organized by Jenny Thompson with the
support of Paul Pheby