Great venues for this conference. I particularly enjoyed the Spanish olive oil tasting last night, as well as the olive liqueur made on a Croatian island

Lovely start to the Liquid Gold conference in Warsaw with a keynote from David Mattingly and a gift of extra virgin olive oil from the Musej Uja in Škrip, Croatia 😍

Great turnout yesterday, and a lovely opportunity to share my book with colleagues :)

One of the last slides:

Looking forward to it!

For anyone interested in the late antique intersection of religious institutions and economic activity, have a look at our CfP! Julia Koch and I will host a session in May 2026 in Aarhus at RAC/TRAC (Roman Archaeology Conference / Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference). Abstracts due 10 Oct.

Can we start all academic events with a string quartet?
(celebrating the reopening of the Zypern Institut / Cyprus Institute at the University of Münster)

Very excited to head to Birmingham for the Byzantine spring symposium!

Nice to see that the 70th anniversary issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies is out! & looking forward to the future directions of BICS.