Events
19-23 August 2019
Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies (Oxford)
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Wendy Mayer, Patristics and Postmodernity: Bridging the Gap. (Plenary Lecture)
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Chris de Wet, Medical Discourse, Identity Formation, and Otherness in Late Ancient Christianity.
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Hagit Amirav, The Naked Demon: Alternative Interpretations of the Alexamenos Graffito.
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Rajiv Bhola, Spiritual Echoes: Some Parallels in Eusebius' Portrayals of Constantine and Judeo-Christian Figures of the Past.
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Workshop: "Reorienting, Reframing, and Reinventing Memory in the Early Christian World"; organised by Rajiv Bhola and Ryan Strickler (University of Queensland); chaired by Bronwen Neil.
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19-20 July 2019
(Macquarie University)
Bronwen Neil, Visions of Heaven and Hell: A Bridge to the Other World; panel chair, "Panegyric and Dissidence".
Wendy Mayer, Heirs of Roman Persecution: Common Threads in Discursive Strategies across the Late-Antique East; panel chair, "Dissidence in Persecution".
Jitse Dijkstra (Keynote Speaker), The Avenging Sword? Imperial Legislation against Temples in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries.
Rajiv Bhola, The 'Philosophy of Martyrdom' in Eusebius' Praeparatio Evangelica.
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4-7 February 2019
Australasian Society for Classical Studies, 40th Annual Conference and Meeting
(University of New England)
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Bronwen Neil, Visions of Utopia in the Lives of the Meridan Fathers; panel chair, "Late Imperial Rome".
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Rajiv Bhola, Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign: Constantine's Labarum and Eusebius' σημεá¿–ον and τρÏŒπαιον; panel chair, "Episcopal Networks".
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15-16 November 2018
Clash of Civilisations? Where Are We now?
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Bronwen Neil (co-convener)
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7-10 November 2018
Making and Unmaking Memory in the Ancient World: From the 7th Century BCE to the 7th Century CE
(University of South Africa, Pretoria)
Bronwen Neil (Keynote Speaker), Remembering Utopia in Sixth-Century Italy, Gaul and Spain: Lives of Saints and Sinners.
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Rajiv Bhola, Utopia and its Preservation in Eusebius’ Praeparatio Evangelica.
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Chris de Wet, How to Make a Martyr: Memory and Religious Conflict and the Image of John Chrysostom in the Funerary Speech for John Chrysostom.
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Wendy Mayer, Remembering Dystopia in the Utopian Body: Rereading Chrysostom’s Homily on the Holy Martyr Babylas through the Lens of Purity and Disgust.
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4-7 October 2018
Byzantine Studies Association of North America, 44th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference
(San Antonio, TX)
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13-15 September 2018
Asia-Pacific Early Christian Studies Society, 12th Annual Conference
(Okayama University)
Naoki Kamimura, North African Ways of Approaching Medical Healing and ‘the Plague of Cyprian’.
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Wendy Mayer, Well-being, Therapy, and Care for the Aged: What Does Early Christianity Have to Say to Biomedicine Today?.
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18 August 2018
Symposium: Hymns, Homilies and Hermeneutics in Byzantium
(Macquarie University)
Wendy Mayer, The Homiletic Audience as Embodied Hermeneutic.
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Bronwen Neil, The Theotokos as Selective Intercessor for Souls.
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25 July 2018
Symposium: Envisioning the Roman Emperor in Speech and Word in Late Antiquity
(Macquarie University)