The chair Biography and publications Public lectures Guest lecturers Annual summaries Team and contact Audios and videos News Upcoming Previous Guest lecturer 2 Jun 2026 15:00 to 16:00 Petra Sijpesteijn From petitions to letters: an integrated appeal system Guest lecturer 10 Jun 2026 15:00 to 16:00 Petra Sijpesteijn Getting your message across: practical aspects of letter writing Guest lecturer 16 Jun 2026 15:00 to 16:00 Petra Sijpesteijn Shared values Guest lecturer 23 Jun 2026 15:00 to 16:00 Petra Sijpesteijn Expectations and deviations; rules and variations Next 11 series Filters Event type Event type Lecture (3) Seminar (3) Symposium (4) Opening lecture (1) Academic year Academic year 2025 - 2026 (3) 2024 - 2025 (3) 2023 - 2024 (4) 2022 - 2023 (5) 2021 - 2022 (2) (-) 2020 - 2021 (2) 2019 - 2020 (3) (-) 2018 - 2019 (5) 2017 - 2018 (4) 2016 - 2017 (5) (-) 2015 - 2016 (4) Active filters 2020 - 2021 2018 - 2019 2015 - 2016 2020 - 2021 Lecture The calamus and the cross : the Christianization of writing and the fate of classical culture in Late Antiquity (3). Libraries (2) Jean-Luc Fournet 17 Feb 2021 → 14 Apr 2021 17 Feb 2021 → 14 Apr 2021 Seminar Study of Byzantine papyri in relation to the lecture topic Jean-Luc Fournet 18 Feb 2021 → 15 Apr 2021 18 Feb 2021 → 15 Apr 2021 2018 - 2019 Symposium " My big church and my little chapel " Jean-Luc Fournet 06 Sep 2018 06 Sep 2018 Symposium Voluntary illegibility in paleography Jean-Luc Fournet 07 Dec 2018 07 Dec 2018 Lecture The calamus and the cross : the Christianization of the written word and the fate of classical culture in Late Antiquity (1) Jean-Luc Fournet 06 Feb 2019 → 17 Apr 2019 06 Feb 2019 → 17 Apr 2019 Seminar A new poetic papyrus by Dioscorus of Aphrodite Jean-Luc Fournet 07 Feb 2019 → 18 Apr 2019 07 Feb 2019 → 18 Apr 2019 Symposium 09:30 - 20:30 Not recorded Current Research on Greek Tablets in the British Library Jean-Luc Fournet 20 May 2019 Current Research on Greek Tablets in the British Library British Library, Londres 20 May 2019 09:30 - 20:30 2015 - 2016 Symposium Civilizations in transition (II) : multilingual societies through the history of the Near East Jean-Luc Fournet 03 Sep 2015 → 05 Sep 2015 03 Sep 2015 → 05 Sep 2015 Opening lecture 18:00 - 19:00 Written Culture in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Papyrology Jean-Luc Fournet 07 Jan 2016 Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot 07 Jan 2016 18:00 - 19:00 Seminar Study of Byzantine papyri relating to multilingualism Jean-Luc Fournet 14 Jan 2016 → 07 Apr 2016 14 Jan 2016 → 07 Apr 2016 Lecture Babel on the Nile : multilingualism and multiculturalism in Late Antique Egypt (1) Jean-Luc Fournet 20 Jan 2016 → 13 Apr 2016 20 Jan 2016 → 13 Apr 2016