SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
(all times listed are EDT)
SUNDAY, MAY 30
Roundtable I: Method, Ethics, and Historiography
in the Study of Late Antique Christianity
10:00am-12:00pm
Young Richard Kim, University of Illinois at Chicago
Annette Yoshiko Reed, New York University
David Maldonado Rivera, Kenyon College
Alexandra Leewon Schultz, Harvard University
Ekaputra Tupamahu, Portland Seminary
Moderator: Sarah Porter, Harvard University
Forming the Self: Ancient and Modern Receptions
1:00-3:00pm
“A Trauma as Profound as That of Gnosticism”: Rereading John Noonan’s History of Ancient Positions on Contraception
Tara Baldrick-Morrone
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Care of the self” (ἐπιμελεία ἑαυτοῦ) in Gregory of Nyssa and Michel Foucault
Niki Kasumi Clements
Rice University
The Authority of Paul and Women in Polycarp’s Letter to the Philippians
Janelle Peters
Loyola Marymount University
Respondent: Melissa Harl Sellew, University of Minnesota
Moderator: Tina Shepardson, University of Tennessee – Knoxville
Poetics and Persuasion
4:00–5:30pm
A Christian in the Caliph’s Court: The ‘Book’ in Timothy I’s Disputation with the Caliph Mahdī
Abby Kulisz
Indiana University
Blue God: Polychrome and Early Christian Mysticism
Michael Motia
University of Massachusetts, Boston
Bonds of Love: Conjuring Orthodoxy in John Chrysostom’s Homily in Praise of Meletios
Sarah Porter
Harvard University
Respondent: Jae Han, Brown University
Moderator: Katie Kleinkopf, Louisville University
MONDAY, MAY 31
De-Centering the ‘Author’ in Late Ancient Christianity
10:00am-12:00pm
A Narrator by Any Other Name: Narrative Variation in the Passion of Perpetua and Felicity Manuscripts
Caroline Crews
University of Texas at Austin
Recycled Text: Parallels between the Apostolic Constitutions and the Pseudo-Ignatian Letters
Phillip Fackler
University of Pennsylvania
How Manuscript Evidence Troubles the Notion of Strong Authorship. The Case of the Book of Hierotheos
Nicolò Sassi
Indiana University
Naming the Anonymous Persian Sage: Authorship and Syriac Historiography
James E. Walters
Hill Museum & Manuscript Library
Respondent: Andrew Jacobs, Harvard Divinity School
Moderator: Jennifer Knust, Duke University
New Materialism and Early Christianity
1:00pm-3:00pm
Ascetic Assemblages: Disruption and Experimentation in Early Christianity
Katie Kleinkopf
University of Louisville
The Matter of Daniel the Stylite
Christopher Sweeney
Fordham University
Adunatio Animae et Carnis: Irenaeus of Lyons and a Theology of Blood
Allen G. Wilson
Fordham University
Respondent: Kristi Upson-Saia, Occidental College – Katie Kleinkopf, University of Louisville
Moderator: Rob von Thaden, Mercyhurst University
Constructing and Disrupting Categories
4:00–5:30pm
Rethinking Adoptionism: An Argument for Dismantling a Dubious Category
Jeremiah Coogan
University of Oxford
The Limits of Collective “Orthodox” Authorship in Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History
David DeVore
California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
Out of a Foreign Air: ApocAdam and the Appropriation of Jewish Apocalyptic Literature
Daniel Charles Smith
University of Texas at Austin
Respondent: Rebecca Lyman, Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Emerita
Moderator: Sarah Porter, Harvard University
TUESDAY, JUNE 1
Building and Breaching Boundaries in Late Ancient Discourses
10:00am-12:00pm
From Periphery to Center: Reviewing the Place of the Holy Man in the Late Antique Ritual Landscape
Camille Leon Angelo
Yale University
Eternal Pain, Eternal Witness: Hell and Cosmology in the City of God and the Apocalypse of Paul
Sara Misgen
Yale University
Judgment and Vindication: New Insights on the Brescia Casket’s Visual Program and its Relationship to Text
Julia Nations-Quiroz
Yale University
The Curious Case of Eunomianism and the Law, 389-399 CE
CJ Rice
Yale University
Respondent: Maria Doerfler, Yale University
Moderator: Laura Roesch, University of Tennessee – Knoxville
Augustine and Classical Rhetoric
1:00-2:00pm
[Withdrawn] Augustine’s Dialogues
Jennifer Ebbeler
University of Texas at Austin
The Rhetorical Role of Social Martyrdom in Augustine’s Sermones ad Populum
Diane Fruchtman
Rutgers University
[Withdrawn] Augustine’s Debate with Maximinus and the Limits of Forensic Rhetoric
Adam Ployd
Eden Theological Seminary
Augustine’s Use of Imitatio in Confessions 7
Mark Weedman
Johnson University
Respondent: Elizabeth Castelli, Barnard College
Moderator: Colin Whiting, Dumbarton Oaks
Health and Injury
4:00–5:30pm
“This is What Physicians Do”: John Chrysostom’s Homily against the Jews 8 as a Response to Antiochene Jewish Healthcare
Chance Bonar
Harvard University
[Withdrawn] The Medical Imagination in Gregory of Nyssa’s De hominis opificio
Charles (CJ) Schmidt
Rice University
Virgin Acts: Blinding, Castration, & the Violence of Male Chastity
Jeannie Sellick
University of Virginia
Respondent: Candida Moss, University of Birmingham
Moderator: Tara Baldrick-Morrone, University of Tennessee – Knoxville
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2
Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha
10:00am-12:00pm
The Story of the Midwives in the Protevangelium of James: A Creative Use of a Johannine Motif
Elizabeth Corsar
Scottish Episcopal Institute
Story World and the Expanded Universe: Fan Studies in Dialogue with the Apocrypha
Tom de Bruin
Newbold College of Higher Education
The Act of Peter in Azotus and the Forgiveness of Devils
Cambry Pardee
Pepperdine University
Respondents: Janet Spittler, University of Virginia AND Tony Burke, York University
Moderator: Sheldon Steen, Florida State University
Review Panel: Blossom Stefaniw’s Christian Reading
1:00-3:00pm
Michael Motia, University of Massachusetts, Boston
J. Gregory Given, Harvard College
Kelsie Rodenbiker, Glasgow University
Jeremiah Coogan, Oxford University
Chairing and moderating: Ellen Muehlberger, University of Michigan – Ann Arbor
GLAS Brainstorming Meeting
3:05pm-3:50pm
Moderator: C.J. Schmidt, Rice University / University of Houston
Scribe: Shaily Patel, Virginia Tech University
Roundtable II: Material Scholarship
Horizons in Late Antiquity
4:00pm-5:30pm
Nour Ammari, New York University
Solange Ashby, Barnard College
Alexander Hsu, University of Notre Dame
Brent Nongbri, MF Norwegian School of Theology
Moderator: Jeremiah Coogan, Oxford University