16th CCC 2025 in Coimbra (Portugal)

The 16th Celtic Conference in Classics (CCC), this year organised by the University of Coimbra (Portugal), took place on 15 - 18 July 2025. Being the largest conference of Classical Studies scholars in Europe, the conference covered 39 thematic panels with over 600 participants from 38 countries. The conference, hosted annually at different international venues, aims at fostering interdisciplinary and international research collaborations.

The DFG-Project Monasticism and Local Self-Organisation: Monastic Letters, Horizontal Binding Forces, and Urban Community in Late Antiquity participated in the panel 13: “Female letter writers and addressees in Graeco-Roman antiquity” with presentations by Dr Sandra Erker (“Female letter addressees in the late antique letter collection of Isidore of Pelusium”) and Professor Jan R. Stenger (“John Chrysostom’s Female Addressees”).

The panel was organised by Professor Gavin Kelly and Dr Janja Soldo (University of Edinburgh).