The academic workshop “People and Powers: Rome, Persia, and Armenia in the Fifth Century” will take place on March 31, 2025 (April 11, 1404) at the University of Lille, Pont-de-Bois Campus, Building E, Room 1.51. This event will explore the political, military, and religious interactions among the Roman Empire, the Sasanian Empire, and Armenia in the fifth century AD.

The workshop is organized by Ekaterina Nechaeva and Geoffrey Greatrex.

Program and Lectures

• Daniel Alford – Kings, Wives, and Put-Upon Priests: Exerting Sasanian Royal Control in the Fifth-Century Caucasus
• Giusto Traina – The tractus Armeniae before and after 428 CE: A New Reading of Nov. Theod. V, 3
• Khodadad Rezakhani – Ērān or Anērān?: Sasanian Center and Its Peripheries in the Late Fourth and Early Fifth Centuries
• Ekaterina Nechaeva – Alamundarus, Anatolius, Areobindus, Ardaburius, Ardazanes, and Aspebetus: A Military Prosopography of the Conflict of 421
• Michael David Ethington – Merchants and Craftsmen, Bishops and Apostates: Christian Identities in Persia and the Perceptions of Captivity Surrounding the Conflict of 421
• Anna Usacheva – The Educational-Ecclesiastic Missions and Networking between Roman Osrohene and Sasanian Armenia in the First Half of the Fifth Century
• Ani Honarchian – Bad Seeds and Sacred Fires: Religious Defiance and Imperial Contamination in Fifth-Century Armenia

The workshop will be held both in-person and online, providing a valuable opportunity for researchers and enthusiasts in ancient history, Iranian studies, and Armenian studies.

Interested participants can register via the following link:
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