ONLINE BOOK LAUNCH 

Erasure in Late Antiquity 

Edited by Kay Boers, Becca Grose, Rebecca Usherwood, Guy Walker

We are delighted to invite you all to the online launch for Erasure in Late Antiquity. A copy of the book can be downloaded here in Open Access PDF: Erasure in Late Antiquity Cover Paperback.

TIME AND DATE: Friday 20 September, 17.30-18.30 UK Time (British Summer Time/GMT+1)

ZOOM LINK: Register here for a link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/erasure-in-late-antiquity-book-launch-discussion-tickets-1013641618367

Authors will give a brief presentation on their chapters and the directions their research has taken since, chaired by Professor Carlos Machado.

Speakers include:

•  Dr Ryan Denson (Erasing the Ethereal: Christian Attempts at Delegitimizing Ghosts); 
•  Dr Miriam Hay  Elision as Erasure: The Three Hebrews and the Magi on Fourth-Century Christian Sarcophagi (tbd);
•  Kelly Holob ( The Erasure of Humanity in Late Antique Christian Narratives of Punishment);
•  Dr Anna Sitz (Epigraphic Erasures beyond Damnatio Memoriae: Iconoclasm and “Grammatoclasm” in Late Antiquity);
•  Dr Mali Skotheim ( Spolia and Epigraphical Erasure at the Church of Mary in Ephesus);
•  Dr Becca Grose (Conspicuous Absences in Late Antique Gallic Funerary Texts).
•  Professor Mark Humphries (Erasures and Rewritings in Space and Time)

The editors (Kay Boers, Rebecca Usherwood & Becca Grose) will then give some brief comments, alongside collaborators Professor Mark Humphries and chair Professor Carlos Machado.

The floor will then be open for responses and questions from the audience about specific papers, or wider discussion about the study of erasure practices in Late Antiquity and beyond, chaired by Professor Machado.