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2006-2007 Seminars

  • Friday, September 29, in Temple Court 205 from 4:00 to 5:30: Discussion of Lewis Ayres' Nicaea and Its Legacy: An Approach to Fourth-Century Trinitarian Theology (Oxford, 2004, paperback 2006)

  • Monday, October 9, in Temple Court 205 from 4:00 to 5:30: Presentation by Christine Shepardson (UT Department of Religious Studies) entitled, "Defending Nicaea: 'Jews' and 'Arians' with Ephrem's Greek Neighbors."

  • Wednesday, October 25, in Temple Court 205 from 4:00 to 5:30: Discussion of Dale Martin's Inventing Superstition: From the Hippocratics to the Christians (Harvard, 2004).

  • Friday, December 1, in Temple Court 205 from 4:00 to 5:30: Discussion of Daniel Boyarin's BorderLines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (UPenn, 2004).

  • Friday, December 8, in Temple Court 205 from 4:00 to 5:30: Presentation by Catherine M. Chin (Catholic University of America) entitled, "The Bishop's Two Bodies: Ambrose, Sacraments, and the Basilicas of Milan."

  • Friday, January 26, in Temple Court 205 from 4:00 to 5:30: Discussion of R. Malcolm Errington's Roman Imperial Policy from Julian to Theodosius (University of North Carolina Press, 2006)

  • Friday, February 16, in Temple Court 205, from 4:00 to 5:30: Presentation by Michael Kulikowski (University of Tennessee, Department of History), "Sidonius' Carmen VII and a Hitherto Unknown Gothic Civil War."

  • Friday, March 2, in Temple Court 205 from 4:00 to 5:30: Patout Burns (Vanderbilt University) and Robin Jensen (Vanderbilt University) will present on ritual in early Christian North Africa (click here for preparatory materials.)

  • Wednesday, April 4, in Temple Court 205 from 4:00 to 5:30: Discussion of Marcus Aurelius readings--Meditations and Pierre Hadot's Inner Citadel.

  • Friday, April 20, in Temple Court 205 from 4:00 to 5:30:Presentation by Dr. Maura Lafferty (University of Tennessee, Classics Department), topic will be "Agnellus of Ravenna and the 'Epigraphic Habit' in Early Medieval Ravenna."

  • Wednesday, May 2, in Temple Court 205 from 4:00 to 5:30: Discussion of Elizabeth Clark's History, Theory, Text: Historians and the Linguistic Turn.

  • Monday, May 7, in Temple Court 205 from 3:00 to 4:30: Discussion of Fergus Millar's A Greek Roman Empire: Power and Belief under Theodosius II (408-450) (University of California Press, 2006).