Full Program & Schedule:
http://sites.duke.edu/clas/symposium-2013/symposium-schedule/
Registration (Free and Open to all!):
http://tinyurl.com/bsbby3q
Late Antiquity Made New brings together more than
fifty internationally recognized scholars of Late Ancient and Early Christian
Studies and their related disciplines.
The conference has two projects: documenting the emergence of “Late
Antiquity” as a discipline within and beyond the Study of Religion during the
past four decades, and exploring directions for contemporary and future
research in the field.
With Keynotes By:
Patricia Cox Miller (Syracuse): “Caressing the Wolf’s
Head: Reading Animals in Early Christianity”
Dale Martin (Yale): “Armed and Not Dangerous: Jesus in
Jerusalem”
Catherine Chin (UC-Davis): “Aristocratic and Apostolic
Genealogies in the Late Fourth Century”
We warmly welcome all guests. For further information, please contact Tammy
Thorton at the Duke Religion Department (tammy.thorton@duke.edu).
Please note:
This Schedule is subject to changes and updates.
Thursday,
April 11:
5:30 PM: Registration begins outside of Doris Duke
Center (Sarah P. Duke Gardens)
6:00 PM: Opening Reception (Sarah P. Duke Gardens —
Doris Duke Center)
7:00 PM: Welcome from Representatives of Duke
University
8:00 PM: First
Keynote:
Patricia Cox Miller (Syracuse University), “Caressing
the Wolf’s Head: Reading Animals in Early Christianity”
Friday,
April 12:
8:00 AM: Coffee, tea, and continental breakfast
available at the Alumni Memorial Common Room (Westbrook Building)
9:00 – 11:00 Session
#1: “Engendering Late Antiquity” (004 Westbrook Building)
Kyle Smith (University of Toronto), “Reading
Renunciation: Gushtazad the Eunuch and Biblical Interpretation in the Acts of
the Persian Martyrs”
Susanna Drake (Macalaster College), “Sin and
Perfection: Pelagius, Augustine, and Melania the Younger”
Robin Darling Young (University of Notre Dame), “A
Sibyl Among the Friends of God”
Rebecca Krawiec (Canisius College), “The Memory of
Melania: Gender and Cultural Memory”
11:00 AM: Coffee Break (Alumni Memorial Common Room)
11:30 AM: Second Keynote:
Dale Martin (Yale University), “Armed and Not
Dangerous: Jesus in Jerusalem” (0014 Westbrook Building)
12:30-2:00 PM:
Lunch (boxed lunches available for registered participants courtesy of
the Duke Religion Department)
2:00-4:00 PM: Session
#2: In Theory (0014 Westbrook Building)
Chair: Jeremy Schott (UNC Charlotte)
George Demacopolous (Fordham University), “History,
Theory, and “Eastern Christian” Texts: What
Postcolonial Critics and Scholars of Later Byzantium
can Learn from One Another”
Kathryn Lofton (Yale University), “The Sexuality of
Heresy”
David Brakke (Ohio State University), “The Problem of
‘Monastic Literature’”
Susanna Elm (UC Berkeley), “Queering the Barbarian”
4:00 PM: Coffee Break
4:30-6:00 PM: Session #3: Literary Texts, Ascetic
Contexts (0014 Westbrook Building)
Chair: Kristi Upson-Saia (Occidental College)
Blake Leyerle (University of Notre Dame), “Imagining
Antioch: or, the Fictional Space of Alleys and Markets”
Averil Cameron (University of Oxford), “Late Antiquity
and Literature: What’s the Problem?”
Dennis Trout (University of Missouri), “Napkin Art:
The Difference Satire Made in Fourth-Century Rome”
6:30 PM: Dinner
for Symposium Contributors
Saturday,
April 13:
8:30 AM: Coffee, tea, and continental breakfast at the
Alumni Memorial Common Room.
9:30-11:30 AM: Session
#4: Melania (0014 Westbrook Building)
Chair: Carrie Schroeder (University of the Pacific)
Stephen Shoemaker (University of Oregon), “Sing, O
Daughter(s) of Zion: Public Worship in the Melanias’ Jerusalem”
Andrew Jacobs (Scripps College), “The Lost Generation:
Aristocracy, Migration, and Empire in the Age of the Melanias”
Christine Shepardson (University of Tennessee,
Knoxville), “The Enemy of My Enemy is a Heretic?: Nestorians, Miaphysites, and
Gerontius’s Life of Melania”
Elizabeth Castelli, “Rereading The Life of Melania the
Younger while Pondering the Future of Feminist History and Critique”
11:30 AM: Coffee Break (Alumni Memorial Common Room)
12:00 AM -1:00 PM:
Third Keynote:
Catherine Chin (UC Davis), “Aristocratic and Apostolic
Genealogies in the Late Fourth Century: ‘Melania’ as Trajectory”
Introduction by Michael Penn (Mt. Holyoke College)
1:00 PM: Lunch (boxed lunches provided for registered
participants courtesy of the Duke Religion Department)
2:00-4:00 PM: Session #5: Late Antiquity and Its
Reception (0014 Westbrook Building)
Chair: Stephanie Cobb (University of Richmond)
Virginia Burrus (Drew University), “Translating Women”
Julie Byrne (Hofstra University), “Who’s the Catholic
in Catholic Studies?: Notes on the Historiography of American Catholicism”
Stephen Davis (Yale University), “The Melanias and the
Modern Revival of Coptic Orthodox Monasticism”
Philip Rousseau (Catholic University of America), “Is
Jerome Redeemable?”
4:00PM:
Concluding Remarks & Farewell by Randall Styers (UNC Chapel Hill)
Sponsored by:
John-Kelly C. Warren Roman Catholic Studies Endowment
Evelyn and Valfrid Palmer Roman Catholic Studies
Endowment
Dennis and Rita Meyer Endowment Fund
The Center for Jewish Studies
The Duke/UNC Center for Late Ancient Studies
Duke Department of Religion
Duke Divinity School
Duke University Graduate School
The American Academy of Religion
Department of Religious Studies, UNC Chapel Hill
Duke History Department
Trinity College of Arts and Sciences
Office of the Provost