2008-2009 Schedule

September 18, Charles Stang, Simeon Stylites and the Geometry of Ascetic
Practice

October 16, John Herrmann, Simeon Stylites and Churches of His North Syrian
Neighborhood

November 13, Ute Possekel, An Ancient Case of Rebranding? The Transformation of Harran from a Pagan Cult Center to a Christian Pilgrimage
Site

December 11, Sean Freyne, The Gospels of Mark and Matthew in the Setting of
Phoenicia and Syria

February 19, Shaye J. D. Cohen, Sabbath Law and Mishnah Shabbat
in Origen's De Principiis

March 19, Ruth Langer, The Early History of the Birkat Haminim

April 30, Euthymios Soulogiannis (tba), sponsored by the Alexander S.
Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA)

2007-2008 Schedule

September 20: Paul Kolbet Disfigurement and Torture in Origen's Thought and Practice

October 18: Annewies van den Hoek & John Herrmann, Celsus' Competing Heroes: Jonah, Daniel, and Their Rivals

November 15: Susan R. Holman, Out of the Fitting Room: Rethinking Patristic Social Texts on “The Common Good”

December 20: TBA, TBA (See January 17, 2008)

January 17: Laura Nasrallah, The Earthen Human, the Breathing Statue: The Sculptor God, Greco-Roman Statuary, and Clement of Alexandria

February 14: Robert J. Daly, S.J., Sacrifice and Atonement in Early Christianity

March 10: David Frankfurter, Domestic Devotion and Religious Change: Theoretical Perspectives and the Christianization of Egypt

April 17: Louis Demos The Martyr and Bride of Christ: Hagiography and Romance in Eustratios of Constantinople's "Passio Golindouch".

2006-2007 Schedule

September 21: Susan Holman Sick Children in Sophronius of Jerusalem's 'Miracles of Ss. Cyrus and John'

October 26: John Herrmann & Annewies van den Hoek
St. Paul¹s outside-the-walls, Rome: New Studies of the Old Basilica

November 16: Maria Aguilar, Darkness Came Over the Land: Acedia and Meditation on the Cross in the Ascetic Works of Evagrius Ponticus

December 14: Arthur Urbano, Antony of Egypt: A True Philosopher in an Unlikely Place

January 18: Elizabeth Penland Eusebius and the Caesarean School: Evaluating the Evidence of the Martyrs of Palestine

February 15: Gary A. Anderson Almsgiving in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity

March 14: John G. Gager Christians, Jews, and the Late Antique Synagogue

April 19: Marian Gh. Simion Scorning the Balkan Ghosts: Byzantine Orthodoxy and Manichaean Dualism

2005-2006 Schedule

September 22: François Bovon An Unpublished Fragment of the Acts of Peter?

October 20: Annewies van den Hoek The Endicott Scroll: An Unpublished Greek Manuscript and Its Place in the History of Private Communion Prayers

November 17: Demetrios Katos Forensic Oratory in the Dialogue on the Life of
St. John Chrysostom

December 15, Laura Nasrallah, Justin and Athenagoras Talk to the Empire:
Rethinking the Category of Apologetic

February 16: AnneMarie Luijendijk Papyri from the Time of the Persecutions: Roman and Christian Perspectives

March 16: Thomas Cattoi Cosmic Order in the Flesh - Maximus the Confessor and the Christocentric Turn in Natural Theology

April 27: Paul Kolbet Imperial Bishops and the Problem of Christian Identity: a Case Study of Augustine of Hippo

2004-2005 Schedule

September 23: Annewies Van Den Hoek, Apologetic and Protreptic Discourse in Clement of Alexandria

October 21: Dieter Winkler, East Syriac ('Nestorian') Christologies in the 7th Century.

November 18: David Stephens, The Nazianzean Argument of the Third Oration, Oration XXIX, 13-16 – A Critique of the Logic.

December 9: Laura Nasrallah, Empire and Apocalypse in Thessaloniki: Interpreting the Early Christian Rotunda (Church of St. George).

January 20: Robert J. Daly, The Development of Trinitarian Theology in Early Christian Anaphora.

February 17: Annemarie Luijendijk, Christians and Christian Identity in Late Antique Oxyrhynchus.

March 17: Jennifer Knust, Jesus, An Adulteress, and the Development of Christian Scripture.

April 15: Meeting in Conjunction with the Pappas Foundation, Appraisal of the State of the Patristic Field.

2003-2004 Schedule
Sept. 25 Annewies van den Hoek Peter, Paul, and the Consul: Images of Officials on African Slip Ware

Oct. 23 Sabrina Inowlocki Eusebius' Use and Abuse of Philo: The Case of the Legatio ad Caium

Nov. 13 Nicholas Constas The Last Temptation of Satan: Divine Deception in Greek Patristic Interpretations of the Passion Narrative

Dec. 18 James Skedros The Greek Fathers on the Lives of the Saints: Some Considerations

Jan. 29 Ute Possekel Bardaisan of Edessa on the Resurrection: Early Syriac Eschatology in its Religious-Historical Context

Feb. 19 John Townsend Christianity in Rabbinic Literature

Mar. 18 Paul Kolbet Augustine and the Cure of Souls: Reception and Transformation of a Classical Ideal

Apr. 22 Demetrios Katos Origenism in the Desert: Palladius of Helenopolis and the Alexandrian Theological Tradition

2002-2003 Schedule
Sept. 26 John Herrmann Alahan Monastery: An Early Byzantine Monument in South Central Turkey

Oct. 17 Khaled Anatolius Trinitarian Hermeneutics in Athanasius

Nov. 14 Susan Holman Rich City Burning: Social Welfare and Ecclesial Insecurities in Basil's Homily 21

Dec. 12 Denise Buell A New People with a Past: Early Christian Experiments in Ethnography

Jan. 30 Miguel Herrero From Helicon to Sion: Some Aspects of the Shaping of Paganism in the Protrepticus of Clement of Alexandria.

Feb. 20 Daniel Caner Spreading the Blessings?: Material Eulogiai and Divine Economy.

Mar. 20 Nicholas Constas "The Ears of the Virginal Body": the Poetics of Sound in the School of Proclus

Apr. 10 Joan R. Branham The Temple that Won't Quit: Constructing Sacred Space in Ancient Judaism, Medieval Christianity, and Florida's Theme Parks.

2001-2002 Schedule
Sept. 20 Robin Jensen and Patout Burns A Pilgrimage to the Land of Augustine: Christian Sites in Modern Algeria (Hippo, Madauros, and Tipasa)

Oct. 25 James Ernest The Bible in Athanasius

Nov. 15 Andrew McGowan 'A Third Race' Or Not: The Rhetoric of Ethnic Self-definition in the Christian Apologists

Dec. 13 Annewies van den Hoek and John Herrmann Thecla, the Beast Fighter. A Female Emblem of Deliverance in Early Christian Popular Art

Jan. 24 Annewies van den Hoek Alexandria: Topography, Monuments, and Celebreties

Febr. 21 Leonard Maluf The Two Boats in Lk 5:1-11. Reflections on Bede's Allegorical Interpretation of the Lukan Narrative

March 21 Susan Graham Paul and the Apostolic Preaching: Rom 9-11 in Irenaeus's Epideixis

April 18 Jennifer Knust A Depraved Empire and the Licentious Heretics: Sexualized Invective in Christian Apology

2000-2001 Schedule
Sept. 28 Robin Jensen
Prayers for the Dead. Funerary Mosaics in Christian North Africa.

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Oct. 19 Kenneth Fisher
Transsexual or Gender Themes in the Passio Perpetuae et Felicitatis?

Nov. 9 Kelly McCarthy Spoerl
Translation Workshop--Fragments of Marcellus of Ancyra.

Dec. 14 Annewies van den Hoek
Philo and Origen: A Descriptive Catalogue of their Relationship.

Feb. 1 Gary Anderson
Balancing the Heavenly Books: Sin as the Accumulation of Debt in Second Temple Judaism and Late Antique Christianity.

Feb. 22 François Bovon
Mary Magdalene and Women's Ministry in the Acts of Philip.

Mar. 22 Nicholas Constas
"Vanity of Vanities"? Solomon's Trilogy and the Patristic Subversion of Scripture.

Apr. 19 Luc Herren
"He Has Brought Down the Powerful from their Thrones": The Use of the Magnificat around 400 CE

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