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Late Antique eXcursus Seminar by Leslie Dossey
Friday, Oct 10 @ 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Redwood Room at the UCLA Faculty Club,
Late Antique eXcursus (LAX) is a new seminar series at UCLA sponsored by the Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History and by the CMRS Center for Early Global Studies.
The series, which hosts a visiting scholar of Late Antiquity or the early Middle Ages each quarter, is designed to support graduate education, make new connections across our community of scholars in southern California, and explore exciting projects-in-progress in the field.
Readings for the seminar will be circulated to participants who register below.
Leslie Dossey is an Associate Professor of History at Loyola University Chicago, where she teaches courses on the social and cultural history of late antiquity, medieval archaeology, and the Roman Empire. Dossey’s research focuses extensively on antiquity in North Africa, constructions of gender in late antiquity, and popular religion. She is the author of Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa (University of California Press, 2010). Her work has appeared in the leading scholarly publications in European history, including Past & Present and the Journal of Theological Studies. Dossey is currently engaged in a book project investigating the social and cultural history of sleep in late antiquity. She was the recipient of the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Classical Studies (2000-01), which enabled her to work at the American Academy in Rome, and a Dumbarton Oaks Junior Fellowship (1996/97).
If you’d like to be added to the LAX listserv, contact Jamie Kreiner at jkreiner@ucla.edu.