Plenary Speakers at the Seventeenth Conference (2015)

(from the archive)

Opening Lecture

Susanna Elm (Berkeley). ‘Augustine and the slave trade: theology and economics’

Closing Lecture

Theo de Bruyn (Ottawa), ‘Bishops, Scribes, Spells, and Rites: A Revealing Quartet.’.

Evening Speakers

Atsuko Gotoh (Hosei) ‘The “conversion” of Constantine the Great: his religious legislation in the Theodosian Code’

David Hunter (Kentucky) 'Priesthood and Purity: Rethinking the Origins of Clerical Sexual Continence'

Lenka Karfikova (Prague) ‘Augustine on anamnesis’

Plenary Speakers

Brouria Bitton-Ashkelony (Jerusalem): ‘Greek and Syriac Hybridity in Eastern Monastic Culture'

James Carleton-Paget (Cambridge): ‘Celsus' Jew, and some questions about the Christian Adversus Judaeos tradition’

Tina Dolidze (Tbilisi) ‘From Origen’s Biblical Hermeneutics  to Gregory of Nyssa’s Theory of Language’

Hugh Houghton (Birmingham) ‘The Changing Shape of New Testament Commentaries’

Simon Mimouni (Paris) “Jésus de Nazareth et sa famille ont-ils appartenus à la tribu des prêtres? Quelques remarques et réflexions pour une recherche nouvelle”.

Claudio Moreschini (Pisa) ‘Can we really speak of “Cappadocian Theology” as a system?’

Barbara Roggema (London) ‘Christian Arabic Patristic Literature and Early Islam’

Stephen Shoemaker (Oregon): Marian devotion before the Council of Ephesus.

Bas ter Haar Romeny (Amsterdam) ‘Greek-speaking and Syriac Christianity’

Peter Van Nuffelen (Ghent) ‘Time, language and understanding: how do Christians write history?’

Martin Wallraff (Basel): ‘Symphony of the Gospels: Eusebius’ canon tables and other early Bible paratexts’

Robert Wisniewski (Warsaw): ‘Eastern, western and local habits in the early cult of relics’

 

Plenary Speakers at the Sixteenth Conference (2011)

(from the archive)

Opening Lecture

Guy Stroumsa:  “Athens, Jerusalem, Mecca: The Patristic Crucible of the Abrahamic Religions”

Closing Lecture

Averil Cameron: “Can Christians Do Dialogue?”

Evening Speakers

Lewis Ayres: “Grammar, Polemic and the Development of Patristic Exegesis 150 – 250”

Sarah Coakley : “Prayer, Politics and the Trinity: Vying Models of Authority in Third and Fourth Century Debates on Prayer and ‘Orthodoxy’”

Mark Vessey: ‘Plurimi pertransibunt: the Translators of the King James Version and the Church Fathers’

Plenary Speakers

George Bozinis: “John Chrysostom and the State”

Annewies van den Hoek : “Execution as Entertainment: the Roman Context of Martyrdom”

Hervé Inglebert: « Le problème de la formation intellectuelle des clercs : d’Augustin à Cassiodore »

Susan Ashbrook Harvey: “The Sorrow of Eve:  Lamentation and Penance in Syriac Tradition”

Lorenzo Perrone: “Origen’s Confessions: Recovering the Traces of a Self-Portrait”

Therese Fuhrer: “Augustine in Milan: the Easter Crisis of 386”

Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe: “Diabolical problems in Early Christian Thought”

Richard Price: “The Theology of the Councils: Resources and Limitations”

Samuel Rubenson: “The Formation and Reformations of the Sayings of the Desert Fathers”

Josef Lössl: “Memory as History? Patristic Perspectives” 

George Zografidis: “Is a Patristic Aesthetics possible? The Eastern Paradigm Re-examined”

Kazuhiko Demura: “The concept of Heart in Augustine of Hippo: its Emergence and Development”

Plenary Speakers at the Fifteenth Conference (2007)

(from the archive)

Opening Lecture

Rowan Williams: ‘Tempted as we are’: Christology and the Analysis of the Passions

Closing Lecture

Frances Young: ‘Creation and Human Being: the forging of a distinct Christian discourse’

Evening Speakers

Winrich Löhr: ‘Christianity as Philosophy – perspectives and problems of an ancient intellectual project’

Bart Ehrman: ‘Forgery and Counterforgery in the Early Christian Tradition’

Pauline Allen: ‘Portrayals of the Theotokos ’

Plenary Speakers

Glen Bowersock: ‘Helena’s Bridle, Ethiopian Christianity, and Syriac Apocalyptic’

Richard Sorabji: ‘Conscience: the Graeco-Roman Contribution’

Claudia Rapp: ‘Exemplarity and Imitation in late Antique Christianity’

Sebastian Brock : ‘Dramatic Poems on Biblical Topics in Syriac’

Jan Den Boeft: ‘Delight and Imagination: Ambrose’s Hymns’

M. Kazakov: ‘Letters of Western Bishops to the Emperor Theodosius I and relations between the Eastern and Western Churches at the end of the IV Century’

Pier Franco Beatrice: ‘Augustine’s longing for Holiness and the Problem of Monastic Illiteracy’

Bronwen Neil: ‘Blessed are the Rich: Leo the Great and Roman Poor’

Susan Wessel: ‘Mind and Sensation in Gregory of Nyssa’

Claire Sotinel: ‘Ancient Christianity and the techniques of  information’

Ulrich Volp: ‘That unclean spirit has assaulted you from the very beginning’: John Chrysostom and Suicide

Marie-Odile Boulnois: “Dieu jaloux”: Embarras et controverses autour d’un nom divin dans la littérature patristique

Plenary Speakers at the Fourteenth Conference (2003)

(from the archive)

Opening Lecture

P. Cox Miller: “Visceral Seeing: the Holy Body in Late Antiquity”

Closing Lecture

A. di Berardino: “The Christianization of Social Time in the Fourth Century”

Evening Speakers

J. Lieu: “Memory and Identity: the Early Christian Discovery of a Past”

P. Rousseau: “Human Nature and its Material Setting in Basil of Caesarea’s Sermons on the Creation”

A.M. Ritter: “Augustine and the Patriarch Photius on Religion and Politics”

Plenary Speakers

J. W. Drijvers: “Cyril of Jerusalem: A Bishop and his City”

R. Dodaro: “Between the two Cities: Political and Theological Virtues in Augustine of Hippo”

G. Stroumsa: “Christ’s Laughter: Docetic Origins Reconsidered”

J. Lienhard: “Two Friends of Athanasius:  Marcellus of Ancyra and Apollinarius of Laodicea”

E. Rébillard: “The Church, the Christians and the Dead in Late Antiquity”

C. Markschies: “Christians and Asclepius? Ancient Christianity and the Healing Cults”

R. Lane Fox; “Augustine’s Soliloquies and the Historian”

Archbishop R. D. Williams: “Augustine’s Christology”

S.B. Gajano: “Saints and Hagiographies between Mediterranean Late Antiquity and Medieval Western Christianity: the role of Gregory the Great”

P. Allen: “The Syrian Church through Bishops’ Eyes: the Letters of Theodoret and Severus of Antioch”

B. Leyerle: “Monks and Other Animals”

M. Vinzent: “Postcolonial Patristics”