SF XI
“The Transformation of Poverty, Philanthropy, and Healthcare”
26-29 MARCH 2015
University of Iowa (Iowa
City, IA, USA)
Organizers: Sarah Bond, Carlos Galvão-Sobrinho, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
https://shiftingfrontiers2015.wordpress.com/schedule-program/
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SHIFTING FRONTIERS IN LATE
ANTIQUITY XI:
The Transformation of
Poverty, Philanthropy, and Healthcare
THURSDAY, MARCH 26
Location: Levitt Auditorium, College of Law,
University of Iowa.
*Please note that all papers should be 20 minutes in
length unless otherwise noted. *
4:00 PM Welcome from the Co-Chairs
Sarah E. Bond (University of Iowa)
Carlos Galvão-Sobrinho (University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent (Marquette
University)
4:15 I. Monasticism,
Healing, and the Body
Paul Dilley (University of Iowa): “The Monastic Care
of Souls and the Demon of Porneia:
Cognitive and Affective Disciplines”
Sarah E.
Bond (University of Iowa), “ ‘As Trainers for the Healthy’: Masseurs,
Anointers, and Early Christian Healing”
5:15 Break
5:30 DIGITAL HUMANITIES KEYNOTE: Ryan Baumann: “Shifting Frontiers in the Digital
Humanities” (Duke University) University Capitol Centre 2780
6:30 Opening Night Reception hosted by the UIOWA Digital Studio after the
lecture at the Capitol Centre.
FRIDAY, MARCH 27
Location: Levitt Auditorium, College of Law,
University of Iowa
8:30 AM II. Ambrose, Aphorisms, and Wealth
Ethan
Gannaway (St. Ambrose University): “Ambrose and the Salutaria Praecepta”
Micah
Kiel (St. Ambrose University): “Ambrose’s Biblical Screed Against Usury: Why de Tobia?”
Robert
Grant (St. Ambrose University): “From Philodemos to Philanthropos: Ambrose of Milan’s
war on economic injustice in IV* Milan”
10:00 Morning Break [Coffee, Tea, and Light Breakfast Foods]
10:30 III. Poverty and Status in the
Latin West
Ralph
Mathisen (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign): “ ‘Arctum ei victum et tenuem relinquentes’: Hard Times in Late
Antique Gaul”
Matheus
Coutinho Figuinha (University of São Paulo) “Peter Brown’s Mystique of
Wealth and the Conversion to Monasticism in Late Antique Gaul
Eduardo Fabbro
(University of Toronto): “Adsiduae fatigationes
pauperum:
Rothari’s Edict and the impact of
social inequality in seventh-century Italy”
Rebecca Devlin
(University of Florida): “Liberti Ecclesiae: Episcopal Charity and
Patrimony in Visigothic Spain”
12:30 Lunch (On your own)
1:45 IV. Psychotherapy,
Health, and the Body
Wendy Mayer (Australian Catholic University):
“Solving poverty by treating the soul: The transformation of philanthropy,
medicine and moral philosophy”
Young Kim
(Calvin College): “Sound Belief, Sound Body: Heresy and Health in Epiphanius of
Cyprus”
Benjamin
Pugno (Columbus State): “Physicians of the Soul: The Role of Medical Theory and
Terminology in the Gregorian Mission”
Linda Ellis (San Francisco State University):
“Therapeutic landscapes: Public health
geography and water management in the Black Sea region (4th – 7th centuries
CE).”
3:45: Afternoon Break [Coffee, Tea, and Light Snack Foods]
4:15 V: Status and Social Strategy
Thomas Macmaster (University of Edinburgh): “Poena
divinitus illata est servitutis”: Christian attitudes towards slavery at
the end of antiquity
Robert Knapp (Emeritus, UC-Berkeley): “Roman Law and
the Ordinary Citizen”
Nicole Moffatt (Macquarie University): “When it’s
Who You Know that Counts: Diffusion of new ideas on Christian charity”
6:00 Break
6:30 KEYNOTE: Susanna Elm (University of California-Berkeley): “Signs on the Skin:
Augustine of Hippo on Corporal Punishment”
Location: Levitt Auditorium, College of Law,
University of Iowa.
7:30 Dinner On Your Own
SATURDAY, MARCH 28
Location: Levitt Auditorium, College of Law,
University of Iowa.
9:00 AM VI. Charity and Building in Late Antique
Rome and the Mediterranean
Helen
Rhee (Westmont College): “The Poor as Healers and Caretakers of the Sick in
Early Christian Sources”
Victor
Martinez (Monmouth College): “Food Subsidies in Late Antique Rome: Unpacking
the Discarded Amphorae of Rome”
Deborah Deliyannis (Indiana University-Bloomington):
“Churches vs. Charity in Late Antiquity”
10:30 Break (Coffee, Tea, Light
Breakfast Foods)
11:00 VII: Philanthropy and Building (15 minute Sessions)
Robert McEachnie (University of North
Carolina-Charlotte): “They Built This City: Chromatius, Aquileia and Changing
Elite Philanthropic Patterns”
Carolyn Snively (Gettysburg College):
“Ecclesiastical Philanthropy in the Balkans: For What Purposes and How
Altruistic?”
3. Dacy
Boyd (Temple University): “Building Basileiados: Euergetism and
Charity”
4. Benjamin
Rogaczewski (UW-Milwaukee), [Working Title] “The Emperor
Julian and Philanthropy”
12:30 Lunch (On your own)
1:30 VIII. Physicians, Medicine, and the Body
Richard
Flower (University of Exeter): “Medicalising Heresy: doctors, practitioners and
patients in Epiphanius of Salamis”
Dirk
Rohmann (University of Sheffield): “Healing of the Spirit: Medical Metaphors
and Medical Practice in Late Antiquity”
Heidi
Marx-Wolf (University of Manitoba): “Late Ancient Notions of the Body and
Health in Porphyry of Tyre’s To Gaurus on
the Ensoulment of Embryos”
Norman
Underwood (UC-Berkeley): “The Gender of Saintly Healing: Physician-Saints, the
Male Gaze, and Smashed Testicles in Late Antique Miracle Stories”
3:30 Break (Coffee, Tea, Light Snacks)
4:00 IX: The Birth of the Hospital
Bertrand
Lançon (University of Limoges), “The Shifting Medical Thought of Late
Antiquity”
Daniel
Caner (University of Connecticut): “Not a Hospital but a Leprosarium: Basil's
"Basiliad" Revisted”
Tyler Fyotek and Andrew Ackell (University of Iowa):
“Treat the Patient, Not the Disease: What the Xenodocheion Can Teach the
Hospital”
5: 30: Break
(please walk over to the Old Capitol Building)
6:00 KEYNOTE: Ramsay MacMullen (Emeritus,
Yale University): “Stirring the Stumps: An
update on ancient welfare
scholarship”
Introduction and Panegyric by Carlos Galvão-Sobrinho
(University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).
Location: Senate Chamber, Old Capitol Building
7:30 Shifting
Frontiers XI Conference Banquet
Location:
Iowa Memorial Union (North and South Banquet Rooms)
SUNDAY, MARCH 29
Location: Levitt Auditorium, College of Law,
University of Iowa.
8:30 X: Attitudes Towards Healing and Disease:
Sviatoslav
Dmitriev (Ball State University): “Early Byzantine Doctor-Benefactors: A
short-lived social phenomenon with a long history”
Anna
Lankina (College of Charleston): “Late Antique Historians on Charity and Healthcare”
Brenda Thacker (University of Missouri-St. Louis):
“Attitudes Towards Disease During the Plague of Justinian”
10:00 Break (No refreshments. Please remember
to get coffee on your own!)
10:30: XI: Writing Charity and Poverty
Krista
Dalton (Columbia University): “Memory and Rabbinic Stories about Charity”
Siiri
Toiviainen (University of Durham): “ 'Need' (khreia) as the Basis of Physical Wellbeing and Social
Responsibility in Late Ancient Christian Writings: Continuity and Change”
Naoki Kamimura (Tokyo Gakugei University):
“Augustine’s Psychological Configuration of Almsgiving and its Correlation with
his View of the Society”
Julio Cesar Magalhaes de Oliveira (University of São
Paulo): “The populus and the poor:
charity and the social strategies of the lower classes in the cities of North
Africa in the age of Augustine”
12:30 Sessions adjourned. Thank you for attending!
Meeting of the Society for Late Antiquity over Lunch