Elsa Lucassen’s research project, part of the NWO-funded Lived Time project led by Dr Sofie Remijsen, is called ‘The Changing Festival Calendar in Late Antique Egypt’. She studies the way the immense changes of Late Antiquity, such as the rise of Christianity, influenced the festival calendar and the effect this had on the conviviality of culturally and religiously diverse groups. Before starting her PhD, she taught Latin and Greek at a secondary school in Amsterdam, having studied Classics at the University of Amsterdam.

Project website: Lived Time – Lived Time in Late Antique Egypt (uva.nl)