Program

Thursday, 23.04.2026

15:30 – 15:45András Handl & Anna Usacheva
Welcome & Introduction
15:45 – 16:00Tour de table
16:00 – 17:00Maijastina Kahlos, Helsinki / Lisboa
Dissident women and mobility networks in Hispania and Gaul
17:00 – 18:00Anna Usacheva, Bern
Papal Epistolary Exchange and Power Dynamics in the 5th-6th centuries
18:00 – 18:30Coffee break
18:30 – 19:30 Andrea Verardi, Rome
Fulgentius, Eugippius, and Proba: A Trans-Mediterranean Religious and Cultural Network in the Sixth Century 
20:00 Workshop dinner

Friday, 24.04.2026

9:00 – 10:00Carmen Cvetkovic, Göttingen
Networks of Authority: Letters, Books and Authorial Authenticity during the Pelagian Dispute 411-419.
10:00 – 11:00 András Handl, Bern
Lettered Networks and Networked Mobility: Cyprian of Carthage and the Building of Collective Episcopal Authority 
11:00 – 11:30Coffee break
11:30 – 12:30Andra Juganaru, Bucharest
Jerome’s Networked World: Mobility and Exchange in a Late-Antique Letter Collection 
12:30 – 13:00Closing Reflections