Wow I didn’t know about this LAMPS love story!

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 LAMPS is BACK (soon)! We are holding a meeting on Thursday 21st November in Room 2.26, Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing from 11-12PM to discuss the future of LAMPS. If you're a postgraduate at Edinburgh interested in helping out, please come along!

As part of LAMPS' comeback, we have opened a BlueSky account. Please follow us @ lamps-edinburgh.bsky.social . We will continue to remain active on Twitter for now, but we hope to eventually delete this account and post on BlueSky exclusively.

LAMPS SEMINAR SERIES CALL FOR PAPERS 2025 Please submit a 300 word abstract to [email protected] by the 7th February. All subjects related to the Late Antique and Medieval worlds are welcome! See the poster below for full details:

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Third Online Athens-Edinburgh Byzantine Book Festival (30-31 May 2025). This is an exciting opportunity for authors to share recently published books on on any area of #LateAntique and #ByzantineStudies (AD ca.300–ca.1500)! hca.ed.ac.uk/updates-events…

Today our first seminar of the semester "Untraditional Chivalry in Sir Orfeo" by Sara Yahya Hamed will take place at 5 PM in G.16 (Doorway 4, William Robertson Wing). We hope to you see there!

In today's seminar at 5pm @ Teviot Lecture Theatre (Doorway 5, Old Medical School), Daniel Claggett from Flinders University will talk to us about "Metal, Mounds and Memory: Viking Boat Burials in Scotland and the Isle of Man."

Join us tonight at 5pm for Alevtina Matveeva's paper ‘From Intellectual Discourse to Spiritual Guidance and Back: The Correspondence Between Irene-Eulogia Choumnaina and Gregory Akindynos.’ Location: Teviot Lecture Theatre and online (ed-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/88367482438 Passcode JRX9XWcM)

Join us tonight at 5pm in the Teviot Lecture Theatre for Alex Bridges' paper ‘Castration on the Nile: the treatment of Egyptian ithyphallic sculpture from the Middle Kingdom to Modernity’ !

Join us 5pm tonight in room G.01, 50 George Square for Jacob Morley's paper on "Papal Authority in Milan: The Evolution of Roman Church Hierarchy c. 1165-1211" ! We will take a small break and return on Monday 21st April, followed by an exciting event on the 30th! (details tbc)

🚨ANNOUNCEMENT🚨 LAMPS Archival Workshop Date: 3-4:45pm, Wednesday 30th April Location: Centre of Research Collections, Main Library, 6th floor. No registration required!

This Wednesday, we have our manuscript workshop at the Centre of Research Collections, Main Library (3-4:45pm) followed by Callum Hendleman's paper 'A dialogue with the dead: Grief and performance in the Threnos Epitaphios of Ioannes Chortasmenos' at Teviot!

Join us tomorrow for our penultimate seminar of the year, where Lucas Butler (University of Edinburgh) will be presenting ‘Empress and Consul? Reassessing the Reign of Eirene of Athens’. We will be starting at 17:00, and the venue will be the Teviot lecture theatre!

FINAL SEMINAR OF THE YEAR! Tomorrow at 5pm in Teviot Lecture Theatre, Ana Inés Aldazabal will be presenting "Folkloric Echoes and Carnivalesque Inversions: The Sabbath of the 'Old Bearded Hags' in the Roman de Perceforest".

LAMPS SEMINAR SERIES CALL FOR PAPERS AUTUMN 2025 Please submit your paper to us at [email protected] Deadline: 29th August 2025

We're proud to present our seminar series for the new semester alongside two manuscript workshops! We look forward to seeing postgraduate students new and old at our first seminar on Tuesday 30th September, which will be followed by drinks!