Upcoming Lectures: Fall 2019
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2018-2019 CLAS Lectures
- January 25 – Gary Vikan – “The Shroud of Turin: A Journey of Discovery”
- February 1 – Noel Lenski (Yale University) – “Roman Refugees: Settling Extra-Territorial Peoples Inside a World Empire”
2016-2017 CLAS Lectures
- September 19 – Clare K. Rothschild (Lewis University and Stellenbosch University) “The Muratorian Fragment as Fraud”
- October 14 – Susan Stevens (Randolph College) “Incorporating Christian communities in North Africa. Churches as bodies of communal history” – Inaugural Maureen Tilley Memorial Lecture
- November 3 – Karl Shuve (UVA) “The Valentinians and the Transformation of the Nuptial Metaphor in Early Christianity”
- March 2 – Zsuzsanna Gulácsi (Northern Arizona University) “Tatian’s Diatessaron and the New Testament Scenes of the St. Augustine Gospels in the collection of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge”
- April 4 – Rachel Neis (University of Michigan) “Reproduction, Hybridity, and the Question of Species in Classical Rabbinic Thought”
- September 12 – Lynda Coon (University of Arkansas) “Gender and Our Dark Age Lord”
- October 25 – Christine Shepardson (University of Tennessee) – “Hell of a Wrong Eucharist: Ritual Distinction and Community Identity in 6th Century Syriac Christianity”
2015-2016 CLAS Lectures
- September 14 – Jordan Pickett (University of Michigan) “Riot at the Baths Murder at the Fountains”
- October 9 – David Frankfurter (Boston University) “Christianizing the Egyptian Religious Landscape”
- October 29 – Douglas Boin (St. Louis University) “History ‘as it really was’?: The Material Turn and the Rise of Christianity”
- November 10 – Warren Smith (Duke University Divinity School) “Gregory of Nyssa and the New Idolatry”
- February 24 – Scott F. Johnson (University of Oklahoma) “‘The Stone the Builders Rejected’: Liturgical and Exegetical Irrelevancies in the Piacenza Pilgrim”
- March 8 – Benjamin Dunning (Fordham University) “John Chrysostom and Same-Sex Eros in the History of Sexuality”