Podmore Book Prize
The VCLA is pleased to announce the outcome of the 2025 Podmore Prize, for books on Late Antiquity published in 2024.
Joint Winners of the VCLA’s
2025 Podmore Book Prize
Muriel Debié
Alexandre le Grand en syriaque:
Maître des lieux, des savoirs et des temps
Les Belles Lettres
and
John Matthews
From Byzantium to Constantinople:
An Urban History
Oxford University Press
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Honourable Mention
for an Especially Significant First Book
Jeffrey Kotyk
Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity:
China and the Parthians, Sasanians, and Arabs in the First Millennium
Brill
Further prize details can be found here.
Inaugural Lecture
Professor Aleksandr Naymark
Hofstra University
Byzantine Elements in Sogdian Art:
Modes of Transmission and Reception
17:00 UTC, 25 January 2022
Free online event, registration required
The History Behind
In October 2020, Dr Alexander Skinner, Research Director, spoke to ‘The History Behind’, a podcast series from TeachMeet History Icons, about Late Antiquity. The recording can be seen on YouTube here.
The VCLA Research Seminar
The VCLA Research Seminar hosts occasional panel discussions and individual speakers on subjects across the spectrum of the field of Late Antiquity, with an opportunity for audience questions.
Previous seminars have taken place on Procopius (audio recording here) and on the Sogdians in Late Antiquity.