Monday, March 11, 2013

Late Antiquity Made New: A Celebration of the Career of Elizabeth A. Clark, Duke University (Durham), April 11-13, 2013

Sources: NAPS, The North American Patristics Society ; CLAS.


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

Sunday, March 10, 2013

La fin des Dieux. Les lieux de culte du polythéisme dans la pratique religieuse du IIIe au Ve siècle ap. J.-C. (Gaules et provinces occidentales), Villeneuve-d'Ascq, 27-28 mars 2013


Source : Calenda, le calendrier des lettres et sciences humaines et sociales.

Maison de la recherche, Lille 3, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France (59600).


PROGRAMME

Mercredi 27 mars
8 h 45 Accueil des participants


9 h 00 W. Van Andringa (Halma-Ipel, Lille 3), La fin des dieux. Comment une religion peut-elle disparaître ?

Thème 1 — Démantèlement des grands sanctuaires civiques

B. Bazin, St. Hérouin, D. Joly (Service archéologique municipal de Chartres), Le site de Saint-Marine-au-Val : démantèlement et abandon précoce d’un grand sanctuaire à Chartres (Autricum) dès la première moitié du IIIe siècle ap. J.-C.
L. Guyard et al. (CG Lot), Démantèlement d’un grand sanctuaire civique de la cité des Aulerques Eburovices : Le site du Vieil-Evreux entre 250 et 350 ap. J.-C.
C. Driard (Eveha, Limoges), Démantèlement progressif et réoccupation profane d’un sanctuaire péri-urbain de Troyes (IIe-IVe siècle ap. J.-C.)
Pause - 11 h 30

S. Blin, J.-Y. Marc (UMR 7044, Strasbourg), C. Cramatte (Lausanne), Du sanctuaire civique à l’église paléochrétienne : les fouilles récentes de Mandeure (Séquanie)
S. Agusta-Boularot (Montpellier 3), O. Ginouvez (Inrap Méditerranée), A. Lassalle (Musée de Narbonne), É. Louis (Montpellier 3), V. Mathieu, C. Sanchez (CNRS, Lattes), Modalités du démantèlement des lieux de culte et politique de grands travaux de l’Antiquité tardive à Narbonne
12 h 30 Lunch

14 h 00 Thème 2 – Quand les cultes tombent en désuétude dès le IIIe siècle

P. Neaud (Inrap Nord-Picardie), Abandon du sanctuaire de l’agglomération de Sains-du-Nord au IIIe siècle de notre ère
F. Verneau (Inrap Centre-Île de France), Le sanctuaire de la Fontaine de l’Étuvée à Orléans : démantèlement, réaménagements et maintien de l’activité religieuse
O. Blin (Inrap, UMR 7041, CNRS), Le sanctuaire occidental du vicus gallo-romain de Diodurum (Jouars-Pontchartrain, 78 Yvelines) du IIIe au Ve siècle : abandon, condamnation, destruction

15 h 30 Thème 3 – Quelle activité religieuse au ive siècle ?

J. Plumier (Dir. Archéologie-Service public de Wallonie), F. Vilvorder (Louvain), Les sanctuaires tardo-romains de Namur et de Liberchies (B) : deux cas de pérennité de cultes de l’Antiquité païenne aux confins de la Germanie seconde et de la Belgique seconde
Pause - 16 h 30

N. Paridaens (CReA-Patrimoine-Université Libre de Bruxelles), Le site du « Bois des Noël » à Matagne-la-Grande (prov. Namur, Belgique) : un sanctuaire régional tardo-romain du sud de la cité des Tongres
J.-S. Cocu, A. Rousseau (Inrap Nord-Picardie), Le sanctuaire de Nesle–Mesnil-Saint-Nicaise : mutations et aménagements d’un lieu de culte en milieu rural chez les Viromanduens du Ie au IVe siècle ap. J.-C.
M. Bailliot (Oxford Archéologie Grand Ouest), Les plaquettes anépigraphes en métal dans les niveaux tardifs des édifices de culte en Gaule et en Bretagne romaines : quels rites ?
J.-M. Doyen (Halma-Ipel, CReA-Patrimoine-Université Libre de Bruxelles), Les sanctuaires de Gaule septentrionale sous les Valentiniens et les Théodosiens (364-455 ap. J.-C.) : les apports de la numismatique quantitative
19 h 00 Fin de la 1ère journée

Jeudi 28 mars 2014
8 h 45 Accueil des participants

9 h 00 Thème 4 – Mutation des cités, évolutions du polythéisme provincial : bilans régionaux

R. Golosetti (Durham), Les lieux de culte du Sud-Est de la Gaule aux iii-ve s. ap. J.-C. : entre abandon, récupération et réoccupation
A. Hostein (Paris 1), M. Joly (Paris IV), M. Kasprzyk (Inrap), P. Nouvel (Franche-Comté), Sanctuaires et pratiques religieuses du iiie au ve siècle de notre ère dans le centre-est des Trois-Gaules
G. Aubin, M. Monteil, L. Éloy-Épailly et al. (CReAAH, Nantes), Les sanctuaires de l’Ouest de la province de Lyonnaise (III-Ve s. de n. è.)
St. Ardouin (Service archéologique-Conseil Général du Val de Marne), La désaffection des sanctuaires païens et les premières manifestations chrétiennes en Ile-de-France
Pause - 11 h 30

C. Baudart, P. Van Ossel (ArScAn, Paris Ouest Nanterre-La Défense), D’une religion à l’autre. Transformation et déclin du paganisme entre le IIIe s. et le Ve s. dans le diocèse des Gaules
J.-L. Boudartchouk (Inrap), Transformation et déclin du paganisme entre le IIIe s. et le Ve s. en Gaule du Sud-Ouest
12 h 30 Lunch   

14 h 00 Thème 5 – Comparaisons : Rome et les provinces occidentales

V. Mahieu (Louvain-la-Neuve), Étudier les lieux de culte du polythéisme dans la Rome du IVe s. ap. J.-C. : panorama général des sources, réflexions méthodologiques et cas particulier du temple de la Magna Mater
J. Arce (Halma-Ipel, Lille 3), Le cas des provinces de la péninsule Ibérique
S. Esmonde-Cleary (Birmingham), Le cas de la Bretagne
15 h 30 Épilogue

Th. Creissen (CITERES, CNRS, Tours), La christianisation des lieux de culte païens : « assassinat », simple récupération ou mythe historiographique ?
Pause - 16 h 30

Conclusions : J. Arce, S. Esmonde-Cleary, L. Guyard, A. Hostein, W. Van Andringa, P. Van Ossel
18 h 00 Fin du colloque                         

CONTACTS

Jocelyne Casene
courriel : jocelyne [dot] casene [at] univ-lille3 [dot] fr
William Van Andringa
courriel : william [dot] vanandringa [at] univ-lille3 [dot] fr

SOURCE DE L'INFORMATION

Christine Aubry
courriel : christine [dot] aubry [at] univ-lille3 [dot] fr

Saturday, March 9, 2013

XVII Conference on Patristic Studies, Oxford, 10-14 August 2015

Source: NAPS, The North American Patristics Society.



Dear NAPS Colleagues,

It is a pleasure to invite you to the next, the XVII Conference on Patristic Studies Oxford (10-14 August 2015), to visit our newly designed website (http://www.oxfordpatristics.com), to register and to submit your abstract there. Hopefully, it should be much easier to do this than last round, but if you encounter problems, please don’t hesitate to send me an email and I will do the best I can that you can get registered and submit your abstract. All deadlines – especially for the early bird discounted fees, you will find on the website (http://www.oxfordpatristics.com).

As you will see, the website looks different – but we would like to improve it even more. It would be wonderful, if you could send me a few photographs of previous conferences, as we could create a small archive on the site that presents such photos to recreate memories.

Again, you can also visit our blog (http://oxfordpatristics.blogspot.co.uk/) where we are going to publish the abstracts, as soon as they are accepted. Please note, we are also publishing reviews on our blog, call for papers, conferences and others – if you wish your book to be reviewed please ask the publishers to send the book to my King’s College London address.

Yours,

Markus Vinzent, Secretary-Treasurer

March 1st, 2013