SF VII
“The Power of Religion in
Late Antiquity”
22-25 MARCH 2007
University of Colorado
(Boulder, CO, USA)
Organizers: Andrew Cain,
Noel Lenski
Conference volume: Andrew
Cain, Noel Lenski, The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity (Farnham: Ashgate, 2009)
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754667254
https://www.routledge.com/The-Power-of-Religion-in-Late-Antiquity/Cain-Lenski/p/book/9781138382756
http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010-09-31.html
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SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE ANTIQUITY VII
THE POWER OF RELIGION IN LATE ANTIQUITY
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
THURSDAY, MARCH 22
All events this day occur in the Center for British
and Irish Studies, Norlin Library, West Entrance, fourth floor
10:00 Registration
Begins
1:00-1:30 Welcomes
Todd Gleeson, Dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences
Graham Oddie, Associate Dean for Arts
and Humanities, College of Arts and Sciences
Phil DiStefano, Executive Vice Chancellor
and Provost
Michael Poliakoff, Vice President for
Academic Affairs and Research
1:30-4:00 SESSION
1: Literature and Religious Power
Chair: Andrew Cain, University of Colorado, Boulder
Danuta Shanzer (Univ. of Illinois) “Haec quibus uteris verba: The Bible and Boethius’ Christianity”
Emily Albu (Univ. of California,
Davis) “Disarming Aeneas: Fulgentius on Arms and the Man”
Josef Lössl (Cardiff Univ., U.K.) “‘Apocalypse? No.’ The Power of Millennarianism and Its Transformation in
Late Antique Christianity”
Felix Racine (Yale Univ.) “Priscian's Periegesis: Sanitized Geography for
Christian Students”
Claudia Rapp (Univ. of California, Los Angeles)
“Contested Ground: Hagiography as a Tool of Triumphalist Christianity”
4:00-4:30 Refreshment
Break
4:30-6:00 SESSION
2: The Center of Power
Chair: Diane Conlin, University of Colorado,
Boulder
Lucy Grig (Univ. of Edinburgh, U.K.)
“Imagining the Capitolium in Late Antiquity”
Dennis Trout (Univ. of Missouri) “Power Play in the
Roman Forum: Felix IV and the Founding of Cosmas and Damian”
Jacob Latham (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
“Inventing Christian Rome: Ritual under Gregory I”
6:00-7:00 Reception
sponsored by The University of Denver Honors Program (Alcohol will be served.)
7:00-8:00 Keynote
Lecture introduced by Peter Hunt, University of Colorado, Boulder
RITA LIZZI-TESTA (Univ. of Perugia, Italy) “Augures et Pontifices: Public Sacral Law in Late
Antique Rome (4th to 5th centuries AD)”
FRIDAY, MARCH 23
Events this day begin in the Center for British and
Irish Studies, Norlin Library, West Entrance, fourth floor.
At 4:00 pm events move to Eaton Humanities 1B50.
8:00-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-10:30 SESSION
3: Constantine and Solar Imagery
Chair: Linda Jones Hall, St. Marys College of Maryland
Jacqueline Long (Loyola University, Chicago) “How to
Read a Halo: Three (or More) Versions of Constantine's Vision”
Jan Willem Drijvers (Univ. of Groningen,
Netherlands) “The Power of the Cross”
Fernando Lopez Sanchez (Univ. of Zaragoza, Spain) “A
Bull Crowned by Two Stars: The Palatine Banner of Julian the Apostate”
H. A. Drake (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
“Solar Power in Late Antiquity, or One Halo Phenomenon Does Not a Christian
Make”
10:30-11:00 Refreshment
Break
11:00-12:30 SESSION
4: The Power of the Law
Chair: Dirk Rohmann, University of Colorado,
Boulder
Erika Hermanowicz (Univ. of Georgia, Athens) "Lactantius’ Divinae Institutiones and the Origins of Earthly
Justice"
Judith Evans Grubbs (Washington University, St.
Louis) “Church, State, and Children: Christian and Imperial Attitudes toward
Infant Exposure in Late Antiquity”
Charles Pazdernik (Grand Valley State
University) “‘The Trembling of Cain’: Religious Power and Institutional Culture in Justinianic Oath-Making”
12:30-2:00 Lunch
2:00-4:00 SESSION
5: Emperors and Bishops
Chair: Charlene Kellsey, University of Colorado,
Boulder
Giacomo Raspanti (Univ. of Palermo, Italy)
“The Role of Clementia Principis in Ambrose’s De obitu Theodosii"
Richard Goodrich (Univ. of Bristol, U.K.) “Martin in
Purple”
Hugh Elton (Champlain College, Trent Univ., Canada)
“Imperial Politics and Religion in the Mid-Fifth-Century East”
Hartmut Leppin (J.W. Goethe-Univ., Frankfurt, Germany) “The
Respectful Emperor: Justinian and Religious Authorities”
4:00-4:30 MOVE
TO EATON HUMANITIES 1B50, outside which you can enjoy a Refreshment Break
4:30-6:00 SESSION
6: Ecclesiastical Leadership
Chair: Rodney Taylor, University of Colorado,
Boulder
Lisa Bailey (Univ. of Auckland, New Zealand) “'Our
own most severe judges': The Power of Penance in the Eusebius Gallicanus Sermons”
David Hunter (Iowa State Univ.) “The New Levites:
Priesthood, Celibacy, and Power in Late Antiquity”
Sabine Huebner (Columbia
Univ.)
“The Interplay between Power and Religion: Requisites and Requirements for a
Career in the Eastern Roman Clergy”
6:00-7:00 Reception
sponsored by The University of Denver Honors Program (Alcohol will be served.)
7:00-8:00 Keynote
Lecture, Introduced by Scott Bruce, University of Colorado, Boulder
DAVID FRANKFURTER (Univ. of New Hampshire) “Religion in the
Mirror of the Other”
SATURDAY, MARCH 24
All events this day occur in Eaton Humanities, room
150.
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-10:00 SESSION
7: Barb(Arian) Power
Chair: Cristiana Sogno, Univ. of California,
Irvine
Ralph Mathisen (Univ. of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign) “The Iconography of Barbarian Arianism”
Michele Salzman (Univ. of California,
Riverside) “After the Fall: Leo's Sermon 84”
Edward James (Univ. College Dublin, Ireland)
“Gregory of Tours and Arianism”
10:00-10:30 Refreshment
Break
10:30-12:30 SESSION
8: Chrysostom and Antioch
Chair: Scot Douglass, University of Colorado, Boulder
Wendy Mayer (Australian Catholic Univ.) “Antioch and
the Intersection between Religious Factionalism, Place and Power”
Stephen Black (Univ. of San Francisco) “John
Chrysostom on Power and the Episcopacy in the Late Fourth Century”
Paul Kimball (Univ. at Buffalo, SUNY) “Sobria Ebrietas and Spiritual Authority in
Chrysostom's First Homily at Drypia”
Justin Stephens (Univ. of West Georgia) “Religion
and Power in the Early Thought of John Chrysostom”
12:30-1:30 Catered
Lunch (Eaton Humanities Living Room)
1:30-3:30 SESSION
9: Manipulating the Divine
Chair: Robert Pasnau, University of Colorado,
Boulder
Aaron Johnson (Loyola Univ., Chicago) “Reading
Religion in Porphyry of Tyre”
Elizabeth Digeser (Univ. of California, Santa
Barbara) “Ritual, Philosophical Religion, and Power”
Sergio Knipe (Cambridge Univ., U.K.)
“Subjugating the Divine: Iamblichus on the Theurgic Evocation”
Heidi Marx-Wolf (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara)
“The Power of Demons in Intellectual Discourse and Social Practice”
3:30-4:00 Refreshment
Break
4:00-5:30 SESSION
10: The Religious Power of the Material World
Chair: Kirk Ambrose, University of Colorado, Boulder
Douglas Boin (Univ. of Texas, Austin)
“The Transformative Powers of Religion in the Late Antique Landscape of
Ostia”
Diliana Angelova (University of Colorado,
Boulder) “A City of Palaces: Imperial Residences and Urban Development in
Constantinople, Fifth to Sixth Centuries”
Bailey Young (Eastern Illinois Univ.) “The Imagery
of Personal Objects: Hints of “Do-It-Yourself” Christian Culture in Merovingian
Gaul?”
6:30-10:30 Banquet (Chautauqua Dining Hall, 900 Baseline
Rd.)
Buses leave from hotels at 6:15, Eaton Humanities at
6:20. Drivers: south on Broadway to Baseline; west on Baseline to Chautauqua
Park.
8:00-8:30 Keynote
Lecture, introduced by Todd Breyfogle, Univ. of Denver
GILLIAN CLARK (Univ. of Bristol, U.K.) “‘The truth shall make you
free’: Augustine on the Power of Religion”
SUNDAY, MARCH 25
All events this day occur in Eaton Humanities, room
150.
8:30-11:00 SESSION
11: The Late Antique East
Chair: Campbell Grey, University of Pennsylvania
Zeev Weiss (Hebrew Univ. of
Jerusalem, Israel) “The Jews of Late Antique Palestine and the Roman Games:
Rabbinic Dicta vs. Communal Practice”
Hagith Sivan (Univ. of Kansas,
Lawrence) “The Making of Mary and the Jerusalem Episcopate in Late
Antiquity”
Scott McDonough (William Paterson Univ.) “Be Joyful
and Listen to the Voice of God: Did Sasanians Know the Bible?”
John Weisweiler (R. Karls-Univ., Heidelberg / Cambridge
Univ., Germany) “Constructing Crusades: Remembering the Persian Martyrs in the
Late-Antique Near East”
Richard Payne (Princeton Univ.) “Persecuting Heresy
in Early Islamic Iraq: The Catholicos Ishoyahb III and the Elites of Nisibis”
11:00-12:30 Farewell
Brunch and Business Meeting of the Society for Late Antiquity
1:30-5:30 Cross
Country Ski Trip to the Eldora Nordic Center (bus leaves Eaton Humanities at
12:30, Quality Inn at 12:40 and Boulderado at 12:50)
1:30-4:30 Hiking Trip to Eldorado Canyon (bus leaves Boulderado at 1:30 and Quality Inn at
1:45)