2007-2008 Seminars
Fall 2007 "The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity"
- Friday, September 14, in Temple Court from 4:00 to 5:30
Banaji, "Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour, and Aristocratic Dominance"
- [ Wednesday, September 26, in the Black Cultural Center Multipurpose Room at 4 :00
Public Lecture: Lester Little (Smith College), “Dress Rehearsal for the Black Death”
- Friday, September 28, in Temple Court from 4:00 to 5:30
Tina Shepardson (Religious Studies), “Rewriting Julian’s Legacy: John Chrysostom’s De S. Babyla and Libanius’s Oration 24”
- Tuesday, October 9, in Temple Court from 4:00 to 5:30
Michael Penn (Mt. Holyoke College), “Beyond the Palimpsest: Erasure in Syriac Manuscripts”
- Friday, October 26 , in Temple Court from 4:30 to 6:00
Leah Giamalva and Christopher Lawrence, "Poetry and Persuasion: Some Literary Allusions in the Panegyrics of Sidonius"
- [Thursday,November 1, in the Black Cultural Center Multipurpose Room at 4.00
Public Lecture: Elizabeth Clark (Duke University), “The Celibate Bridegroom: The Ambiguous Marriage of Jesus in Early Christian Ascetic Exegesis”]
- Friday, November 2, in Temple Court from 4:00 to 5:30
Elizabeth Clark (Duke University), "Augustine, Adam, and the Sons of Noah: Race Theory in Nineteenth-Century North America."
- Friday, November 30, in Temple Court from 4:00 to 5:30
Grafton/Williams, "Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea (HUP, 2006)"
- Friday, December 7, in Temple Court from 4:00 to 5:30
Marie-Jose Mondzain, "Image, Icon, Economy: The Byzantine Origins of the Contemporary Imaginary"
- Wednesday, December 12, in Temple Court from 4:00 to 5:30
Michael Kulikowski (History), “Coded Polemic in Ammianus Book 31 and the date of its composition”
- Friday, January 18, in Temple Court 205 from 4:00 to 5:30
Tom Heffernan
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Friday, February 1, in Temple Court 205 from 4:00 to 5:30
Raffaella Cribiore, "The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch"
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Friday, February 22, in Temple Court 205 from 4:00 to 5:30
Gregor Kalas
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Wednesday, March 12, in Temple Court 205 from 4:00 to 5:30
Dennis Trout (University of Missouri), "Taking Symmachus Seriously: Amor Consuetudinis and the Creed of Heritage"
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Friday, March 28, in Temple Court 205 from 4:00 to 5:30
Discussion of Chris Wickham, "Framing the Early Middle Ages: Europe and the Mediterranean"
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Friday, April 4, in Temple Court 205 from 4:00 to 5:30
Maureen Tilley (Fordham University),"Social Status and Stability in a Convent Community: Caesarius of Arles and his Rules for Nuns"
- CANCELLED Monday, April 28 (after classes end), in Temple Court from 3:30 to 5:00
Discussion of John Matthews, "The Journey of Theophanes: Travel, Business, and Daily Life in the Roman East"