This joint afternoon colloquium of the Oxford Centre for Late Antiquity and the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research, convened by Averil Cameron and Neil McLynn, was held on Saturday 30 April 2011 at Corpus Christi College. Speakers were Judith Herrin (King's College London), Arnaldo Marcone (Università degli Studi di Roma 3), Yannis Papadogiannakis (Oxford), Éric Rebillard (Cornell), Peter Sarris (Cambridge), and Paul Stephenson (Durham). More