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Back to Search143. Coping with earthquakes in the churches of Constantinople, with Mark Roosien
Episode 46
A conversation with Mark Roosien (Yale University) about the earthquakes that struck Constantinople in late antiquity and about how emperors and the people of the City reacted to them in the moment. …
Published on 10 hours ago
142. The decline of animal sacrifice in the late Roman world, with James Rives
A conversation with James Rives (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) on the history of ancient animal sacrifice in the Roman world. We focus on its decline and eventual demise in the third a…
Published on 2 weeks ago
141. The Renaissance and Byzantium are characters in the same play, with Ada Palmer
A conversation with Ada Palmer (University of Chicago) about the invention of the idea of the Italian Renaissance and the functions that it serves in the western historical imagination. "Byzantium" i…
Published on 3 months, 1 week ago
140. A newly identified portrait of Konstantinos XI Palaiologos (1448-1453), with Anastasia Koumousi
A conversation with Anastasia Koumousi (Director of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Achaea, Greek Ministry of Culture) about the recently identified portrait of the last emperor of the Romans in Const…
Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago
139. Captivity and enslavement in the late medieval Aegean, with Alasdair Grant
A conversation with Alasdair Grant (University of Hamburg) about the captivity and enslavement that many Greeks (Romaioi) experienced in the late medieval period, a period of state collapse during wh…
Published on 4 months, 1 week ago
138. Romeyka, a parallel branch of Greek surviving in northeastern Turkey, with Ioanna Sitaridou
A conversation with Ioanna Sitaridou (University of Cambridge) about a Greek language (Romeyka) still spoken in northwestern Turkey, though now endangered, whose grammar retains interesting archaic f…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
137. Conspiracy theories and the deep state, now and then, with Winston Berg
Winston Berg is a political scientist (University of Chicago) who studies modern American conspiracy theories about politics and the deep state; his dissertation studied the movement known as QAnon. …
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
136. The federal assault on American research universities, with Clifford Ando
A conversation with Cliff Ando (University of Chicago) about the revenue models of American research universities and the dangers to advanced research posed by the freezes recently placed on federal …
Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago
135. Latin literature in late antiquity, with Gavin Kelly
A conversation with Gavin Kelly (University of Edinburgh) about the corpus of Latin literature from antiquity down to the present, where we discuss the reasons why most scholars focus on the period b…
Published on 6 months ago
134. Peer-review: the good, the bad, and the amusing, with Tina Sessa and Marion Kruse
A conversation with Tina Sessa (The Ohio State University) and Marion Kruse (University of Cincinnati) on the process of peer-review in the humanities: what it's for, how it can be done well, and whe…
Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago