Conference

"Early Christian Studies and the Academic Disciplines"

Catholic University of America

5-8 June 2005

 

The following speakers accepted our invitation to address the conference:

Professor Pauline Allen, Director of the Centre for Early Christian Studies at the Australian Catholic University

Dr Olof Brandt, Swedish Institute for Classical Studies in Rome

Professor Elizabeth Clark, John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion, Duke University

Professor Sarah Coakley, Edward Mallinckrodt Jr Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School

Dr Christopher Kelly, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Dr John Peter Kenney, Dean of the College and Professor of Religious Studies, St Michael's College, Vermont

Professor Francis Moloney, Dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies, Catholic University of America

Professor Karla Pollmann, School of Greek, Latin, and Ancient History, University of St Andrews

Dr Linda Safran, Department of Fine Art, University of Toronto

Professor Raymond Van Dam, Department of History, University of Michigan

Dr Mark Vessey, Department of English, University of British Columbia

 

They were joined on the occasion by other speakers:

Dr Ruth Clements, Kluge Center, Library of Congress

Dr Geoffrey Dunn, Centre for Early Christian Studies at the Australian Catholic University

Dr Jennifer Ebbeler, University of Texas at Austin

Dr James Francis, University of Kentucky

Dr James Kelhoffer, Saint Louis University

 

Plans are afoot to produce a volume, based partly on some of the conference papers and partly on other sollicited contributions.  The Center has appointed Dr Leonora Neville to edit the volume.  We hope that fuller details will be available by the beginning of 2006.