In addition to the Early Christian Seminar (see below), the Center hosts seminars by Visiting Lecturers (see "Public Lectures" in the main menu to the left), normally in 300 McMahon Hall on Fridays 12.00 - 2.00.  Attendance at these seminars is restricted to members of the CUA community and to invited guests.

 

Friday, February 12, 2010, noon

AnneMarie Luijendijk, Department of Religion, Princeton University

"Forbidden Oracles: Christian Lot Divination in a Coptic Miniature Codex"

 

Friday, April 9, 2010, noon

Michele Salzman, Department of History, University of California, Riverside

"Fifth-Century Episcopal Letters from Rome: Leo and Gelasius"

 

 

Previous Events

 

Antioch Day 2009

A one-day colloqium, bringing together seven scholars on late antique Antioch, held on March 20.  Principal participants were Raffaella Cribiore, Blake Leyerle, Jaclyn Maxwell, Wendy Mayer, Isabella Sandwell, Christina Shepardson, and Robin Darling Young.  For details click above.

 

Papyri and Ostraka Workshop 2008

The Center joined the University Library and the Department of Semitic and Egyptian Languages and Literatures (the major sponsors) in hosting a workshop on the conservation, cataloguing, and imaging of papyri and ostraka in the ICOR Library.  Dr Monica Blanchard, Curator, and Dr Chrysi Kotsifou, Visiting Associate Curator (and Research Fellow of the Center), were joined by Dr Rodney Ast, Project Coordinator of APIS (Advanced Papyrological Information System), Dr Julia Lougovaya of the Classics Department at Columbia University, and invited colleagues and students.

 

Jerome Day 2006

Six graduate students who had worked on Jerome as a writer during the Fall semester with Dr Catherine Chin delivered papers as part of their course examination.  Dr Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr) commented at intervals during the day.  For details click above.

 

Dorushe 2006

A graduate student conference on Syriac Pedagogy, hosted on the CUA campus, February 3-5

For details click above.

 

Romanos Colloquium

A one-day colloquium on Romanos the Melodist organized by Dumbarton Oaks and hosted on the CUA campus, November 12 2005

For details, click above

 

Conference 2005

A conference held at the Catholic University of America, 5-8 June 2005 on the theme

"Early Christian Studies and the Academic Disciplines"

For full details, click above

 

Leadership and Authority in Late Antiquity

A one-day colloquium held on April 29, 2005.  During the course of the day, participants introduced primary texts and led a discussion on the ways in which they demonstrated the definition and exercise of leadership.  In addition to members of our own faculty, we were delighted to enjoy the company of Lewis Ayres (Emory), Dan Caner (Connecticut), Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr), Ken Holum (Maryland), Wendy Mayer (Australian Catholic University), and Claudia Rapp (Los Angeles).

 

Gibbon Day

A one-day symposium on the work of Edward Gibbon, held on Saturday 16 October 2004.  Guest speakers were Clifford Ando, Patricia Craddock, and John Pocock

For full details, click above

 

Conference 2002

A conference held at the Catholic University of America, 6-9 June 2002 on the theme

"The Early Christian Book"

For details of invited speakers and of papers intended for publication, click above

 

 

Early Christian Seminar

Open to all CUA faculty and graduate students and to invited guests

For full details click above