Society for Late Antiquity
Sessions Sponsored at the International Medieval Congress (Kalamazoo)
2001-present
Coordinators
Ralph Mathisen (2001-2015)
Jonathan Arnold (2019)
Kalamazoo 2001
Late Antiquity I: Law and Society in Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of South Carolina
Presider: TBN
1. Thomas Sizgorich, Univ. of California-Santa Barbara
"Coercion, Consequence, and the Juridical Subject: The Good Christian Emperor Contested"
2. Joanne Kropp, Univ. of Texas-El Paso
"Taxes, Patronage, and the Codex Theodosianus: The Influence of Praetorian Prefects and Imperial Agendas on the Legislation De patriconiis vicorum"
3. Laura Reynolds Fry, Univ. of South Carolina
"Law and Society in Visigothic Aquitania: The Code of Euric"
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of South Carolina
Presider: TBN
1. Jennifer Schulz, Toronto School of Theology, Univ. of Toronto
"A Woman's Issue Revisited: The Influence of Ancient Medicine in the Late Antique Fathers"
2. Sarah Klitenic, Trinity College-Dublin
"Syrianus in the Athenian and Alexandrian Schools of Platonism"
3. Mark F. Williams, Calvin College
"'Facta est servitus nostra pretium securitatis alienae': Friendship and Betrayal in Sidonius' Epist. 7.7"
Kalamazoo 2002
Late Antiquity I: Ecclesiastical Policy
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of South Carolina
Presider: Ralph W. Mathisen
1. Michael Kulikowski, Univ. of Tennessee
The Identity of Bachiarius
2. Danuta Shanzer, Cornell Univ.
Chastity, Affinity, and Inheritance: Did the Late Antique "Church" Really Have an "Agenda"?
3. Catherine Cubitt, Univ. of York
Councils between East and West in the Seventh Century: The Lateran Council of 649
Late Antiquity II: Saints and Saints' Lives
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of South Carolina
Presider: Allen E. Jones, Troy State Univ.
1. Poul Martin Ploug Pedersen, Univ. of Copenhagen
Authority and Pastoral Care in the Vita Martini
2. Rebecca Weaver, Union Theological Seminary
Conformity to Christ: Scripture and Caesarius of Arles's Rule for Virgins in the Vita Rusticulae
3. Burnam W. Reynolds, Asbury College
The Anti-Saint in the Work of Gregory of Tours
4. Kirsten M. DeVries, Loyola Univ. of Chicago
Confrontations over Relics: Gregory of Tours and the Challenge from Below
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Kalamazoo 2003
Late Antiquity I: Material Culture in Late Antique Italy
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of South Carolina
Presider: Allen E. Jones, Troy State Univ.
1. Dionysus in Late Antiquity: The Shrine at Cosa
Jacquelyn Clinton, Cornell Univ.
2. Theodelinda's Rome: Ampullae, Pittacia, and the View from Monza
Dennis Trout, Univ. of Missouri-Columbia
3. The Late Antique Crisis in Southern Italy: The Evidence of Salerno and Its Province
Valerie Ramseyer, Wellesley College
4. Some Observations on the Late Roman and Early Medieval Settlement in North Istria Interpreted by Pottery Imports
Verena Vidrih-Perko, Univ. of Ljubljana
Late Antiquity II: Barbarians Who "Got Something" during the Barbarian Settlement
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of South Carolina
Presider: Walter Goffart, Yale Univ.
1. "Getting Something": The Case of Paulinus of Pella's Goth
Michael Kulikowski, Univ. of Tennessee
2. "Getting Something": The Case of Pierius
Andreas Schwarcz, Univ. Wien
3. Getting Something in Gaul
Ralph W. Mathisen
Late Antiquity III: Literature and Society
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Presider: Rebecca Weaver, Union Theological Seminary
1. The Correspondence of Jerome and Aristocratic Circles in Gaul
Andy Cain, Cornell Univ.
2. Qualifications and Competence: The Evidence of Libanius and the Rhetors
Rafaella Cribiore, Columbia Univ.
3. The Fall of Rome Revisited: Millennialism, the De civitate dei, and the Advent of 6000 AM I
Richard Landes, Boston Univ.
4. Public Officials as "Slaves": The Master-Slave Metaphor as Evidence of Political and Administrative Cross-Pollination between West and East in the Early Sixth Century
Charles Pazdernik, Grand Valley State Univ.
Kalamazoo 2004
Late Antiquity I: Urbanism, Commerce, and Transportation in Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider:Steven Fanning, Univ. of Illinois-Chicago
1. Money and Economics in Late Antiquity from a Christian Perspective
Andrius Valevicius, Univ. de Sherbrooke
2. Imagining the "Not-City" in the Post-Roman World
Dominic James, Birkbeck College, Univ. of London
3. The Configuration and Characteristics of Mediterranean Warships: 200-700 CE
Jeffrey G. Royal, RPM Nautical Foundation
Late Antiquity II: Late Antique Authors and Texts
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Andrew Gillett, Macquarie Univ.
1. The Erotic Epigrams of Paulus Silentiarius and the Classical Tradition
Angela Pitts, Mary Washington College
2. Voluntas as Stoic "Impulse" in Some Texts of Augustine
Sarah Byers, Univ. of Dallas
3. "Arianism" in Sixth-Century Hagiographical Discourse: Some Reflections on Gregory of Tours and Gregory the Great
Nicolas Bogaerts, Univ. Libre de Bruxelles
4. Heresy as History: Epiphanius's Panarion 1-20 as Ecclesiastical History
Young Kim, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Late Antiquity III: Miracles, Relics, and Ecclesiastical Authority
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider:Rebecca Weaver, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia
1. Basil of Caesarea: Balancing Power and Asceticism in Fourth-Century Cappadocia
2. Catherine Mansell, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Monks, Bishops, and Imperial Authority in the Late Fourth-Century Greco-Roman World
3. Walter Roberts, North Georgia College and State Univ.
Uncovering the Dust of Relics through Visual Testimonies. The Early Reliquaries
Galit Noga-Banai, Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem
Kalamazoo 2005
Late Antiquity I: Ecclesiastical Factions
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Ralph W. Mathisen
1. Women as Patrons and Promoters of the Cult of Stephen the
Protomartyr
Maribel Dietz, Louisiana State Univ.
2. Connecting the Dots: John Cassian, Augustine, Caesarius of Arles,
and the Lives of Radegund and Rusticula
Rebecca Weaver, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia
3. Irish Monastic Armies and the Just War "Tradition"
Burnam W. Reynolds, Asbury College
Late Antiquity II: Cities, Monuments, and Armies in Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Allen E. Jones, Troy State Univ.
1. Cities, Army, and Payment of Soldiers in Visigothic Spain
Andreas Schwarcz, Georgetown Univ.
2. Life and Death in a Late Roman Provincial Town in Lusitania
(Portugal) ca. 400-600 CE
lvaro Figueiredo, Univ. College, Univ. of London
3. Stable Monuments for Changing Cities: Civic Identity in Two Late
Antique Fountains
Benjamin Anderson, Bryn Mawr College
4. The Evolution of Early Christian Edifices: Public versus Private
Space in Sacred Spheres
Aneilya Barnes, Univ. of Arkansas-Fayetteville
Late Antiquity III: The Heritage of Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Rebecca Weaver, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia
1. Maps as Panegyrics, Panegyrics as Maps: Imperial Rhetoric and
Geography in Late Antiquity
Natalia Lozovsky, Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ.-Indianapolis
2. Vulgar Invective in the Epigrams of Ausonius and Claudian
Bret Mulligan, Brown Univ.
3. When Khâlid met Bâhân: Early Muslim Imperial Memory and
Late Roman Imperial Diplomacy
Thomas Sizgorich, Willamette Univ.
4. Sail On, Bold Eagle: An Ancient Oriental Intaglio in Ninth-Century
Moravia (Czech Republic)
Petr Charvat, Oriental Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech
Republic, Congress Travel Award Winner
Kalamazoo 2006
Late Antiquity I: Society, Culture, and Politics in Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Ralph W. Mathisen
1. Experience of Violence in Fifth-Century Gaul
Angela Frauenhuber, Friedrich-Schiller-Univ. Jena
2. Exile as a Form of Coercion in Late Antique Gaul
Angela M. Kinney, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3. Flavius Valila qui et Theodobius and the Charta Cornutiana
Daniel Abosso, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
. The Unexpected Influence of Roman Stereotypes about the Good Barbarian Practices
Naomi Janowitz, Univ. of California-Davis
Late Antiquity II: Religion and Christian Practices in Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Rebecca Weaver, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia
1. Joseph of Arimathea at Lydda: Theotokos Icons and the Politics of Monumental Conversion after the Council of Ephesus
Paul Dilley, Yale Univ.
2. The Middle Way: Cassian, Job, and Monastic Spirituality
Christopher J. Kelly, Univ. of Iowa
3. The Emergence of Insufflatio as a Distinct Ritual Gesture in Christian Initiation
Daniel G. Van Slyke, Ave Maria College
4. Attaining Heil or Earthly Salvation through the Power of Christ's Flesh and Blood in Early Anglo-Saxon Christianity
Michael W. Coenen, Univ. of St. Thomas, St. Paul
Late Antiquity III: Material Culture in Western Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Michael Kulikowski, Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville
1. Tetrarchic Mint Control
Andrew J. Donnelly, Loyola Univ., Chicago
2. Invisible Converts: The Non-Visibility of Early Christian Symbolism in Roman Lusitania: A Case Study of the Villa and Paleo-Christian Basilica of Torre de Palma
Maia Marie Langley, Univ. de Lisboa
3. Hispania, a New Model of Interpretation for Germanic Settlement in the Fifth Century
Miren Edurne Ruiz-Cuevas Azpillaga, Univ. Complutense de Madrid
4. A Reconstruction of the Sutton Hoo Armor Based on Archeological, Pictorial, and Experimental Evidence
David Horvath, United States Dept. of Agriculture
Kalamazoo 2007
Late Antiquity I: The Eastern Mediterranean During Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Charles F. Pazdernik
1. "Condensing a Culture: The Anthology of Stobaeus as a Bridge between the Classical and Middle Ages"
Denis M. Searby
2. "The Pia fraus in the Kontakia of Romanos"
James W. Marchand
3. "The Pilgrimage Site of St. Symeon the Younger and Some Issues Concerning its Construction"
Ayse Henry
4. "The Representation of the Heavenly City and Garden in the First Arab-Muslim Tradition and its Connection with Late Antique Culture"
Mattia Guidetti
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Ralph W. Mathisen
1. "The Diffusion of Power and Early Christian Architecture"
Aneilya Barnes
2. "Paying Attention to the Man behind the Curtain: Disclosing and Withholding
the Imperial Presence in Justinianic Constantinople"
Charles F. Pazderkik
3. "Traditional Cultic Monuments and the Priorities of Public Construction in Late Roman Africa"
David L. Riggs
4. "Monastic Space under the Columbanian Rule"
Kylie Dodson
Late Antiquity III: Christian Authors
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: David L. Riggs
1. Charles Flowers
"The Corpus Hermeticum: A Mirror for the Evolution of Christian Orthodoxy Charles Flowers"
2. "Philosophers or Trinitarian Theologians? Late Antique Intellectuals between Christianity and Neoplatonism"
Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler
3. "Late Antiquity and Salvation History: Continuities and Discontinuities in the Historical Writings of Isidore of Seville"
Jace Crouch
4. "Shrinking Horizons in Late Antique Gaul?: Sidonius Reexamined"
Jonathan J. Arnold
Kalamazoo 2008
Late Antiquity I: Art, Architecture, and Material Culture in Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Michael Kulikowski, Univ. of Tennessee-Knoxville
1. Reconstructing a Hoard of Late Roman Gold Solidi
Ralph W. Mathisen
2. The Last Statues of Antiquity
Bryan Ward-Perkins, Trinity College, Univ. of Oxford
Natural Disaster and Civic Reconstruction in LATE ANTIQUE Antioch
3. Edward M. Schoolman, Univ. of California-Los Angeles
Late Antiquity II: Western Church Councils
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Walter Roberts, Ashland Univ.
1. The Council of Elvira: Language, Thought, and Action
Amy Oh, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2. Arians, Nicenes, and the Council of Rimini: The Compromise Creed of 359
and Its Later Significance
Mathias Hanses, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3. The Roman Synod of 465 and the Development of Conciliar Tradition in Rome
Daniel Abosso, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4. Domestic Arrangements, Sexual Improprieties, and the Council of Tours of 567
Angela M. Kinney, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Late Antiquity III: Church Councils and Religious Politics in the Late Roman East
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Ralph W. Mathisen
1. Imperial Patronage and Religion in the Fourth-Century Roman Empire
Walter Roberts, Ashland Univ.
2. Egypt, Arius, and Alexander: The Egyptian Synod of AD 320 and the Origins
of Arianism
Ryan McConnell, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3. "What have I to do with Augustine?": Pelagius and the Council of Diospolis
(AD 415)
Karl Goetze, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4. Arab Delegates to Church Councils in Late Antiquity: Solidarity of Faith or
Political Pragmatism?
David I. Harris, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kalamazoo 2009
Late Antiquity I: Celestial and Supernatural Phenomena in Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Ralph W. Mathisen
1. Christ as a Solar Deity: The Helian and Sarapean Origins of Early Images of
Christ
Adam Levine, Corpus Christi College, Univ. of Oxford
2. Seeing Stars: Moveable and Immoveable Celestial Phenomena in Gregory of
Tours
Gregory I. Halfond, Framingham State College
3. Magicians and Witches in Late Antique Gaul
Allen E. Jones, Troy Univ.
4. John Lydus's Use of Sources and Exempla in the De ostentis
Daniel Abosso, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Late Antiquity II: Society and the Economy in Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Jason Moralee, Illinois Wesleyan Univ.
1. Making the Laity in Late Antique Gaul
Lisa Bailey, Univ. of Auckland
2. Latin Literacy in Visigothic Spain: From the Ground Up
Graham Barrett, Balliol College, Univ. of Oxford
3. Ahead of Their Time: Anastasius I and Economic Thought in Late Antiquity
Jason Fossella, Louisiana Tech Univ.
4. (Un)usual Uses of Corruption in the Codex
Kevin T. Mallon, Fordham Univ.
Late Antiquity III: Urban and Rural Life and Landscapes in Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Allen E. Jones, Troy Univ.
1. Village Life and Family Power in Late Antique Nessana
Giovanni R. Ruffini, Fairfield Univ.
2. Aesthetic Maintenance of Civic Space in the Eastern Mediterranean
Ine Jacobs, Katholieke Univ. Leuven
3. Aurelian's Wall and the Propaganda of Rome
Alison Lanski, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4. The Fall of Rome's Holy Mountain: The Church Fathers on the Capitoline Hill
Jason Moralee, Illinois Wesleyan Univ.
Late Antiquity I: Social and Political Practices in Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Allen E. Jones, Troy Univ.
1. Common Dynamic Trends in Late Antiquity
Hartmut Ziche, Univ. des Antilles et de la Guyane
2. Municipal Acclamations in the Later Roman Empire
Marco Mattheis, Univ. Heidelberg
3. Praise and Self-Promotion in Ausonius's Epistle 18
Eric J. Hutchinson, Hillsdale College
4. Bishops Universal: Caesarius of Arles, Avitus of Vienne, and an Expansive
Vision of Episcopal Authority
Kirsten M. DeVries, Roanoke College
Late Antiquity II: Religious Practices
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Ralph W. Mathisen
1. Hercules: Champion of the Pagans?
Alexandra Eppinger, Univ. Heidelberg
2. Destination Baptism and Pilgrimage to Qal’at Sem’an
Dina Boero, Univ. of Southern California
3. Medical Theory and the Christianization of Sleep in Late Antiquity
Leslie Dossey, Loyola Univ. Chicago
Kalamazoo 2011
Late Antiquity I: Saints, Their Lives and Their Experiences
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: David Harris
1. "Saints and Their Communities; Reading Sixth-Century Italian Hagiography
in its Oral and Popular Context"
Daniel Price
2. Ancient Medicine and Early Roman Liturgy: The Use of Holy Oil in the Vita
Germani by Constantius
Francesca Bezzone
3. Traveling with Bonitus: An Analysis of his Seventh-Century Vita and its Place
in Merovingian History
Amy Norgard
4. The View from the Top: Egeria's Ascent of Mount Sinai
Presenter Name: Elizabeth Platte
Late Antiquity II: Understanding Barbarians
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Amy Norgard
1. New Approaches to Roman and Barbarian Elites in Late Antiquity: The Case of Fifth-Century Gaul
Christine Delaplace
2. The Bishop and the Barbarian: the Metric Letter of Auspicius to Arbogast, the Count of Trier
Patrick Neff
3. Excavating Ethnicity in the Early Middle Ages: Current Approaches and Controversies
Ricardo Colon
4. Umm El-Jimal: The Material Culture of a Frontier Town
David Harris
Late Antiquity III: Late Antique Texts
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Ricardo Colon
1. Augustine on the Hazards of Everyday Language
Joshua Davies
Catechesis and Heresy in the Sermons of Maximus of Turin
Michael Brinks
2. Literary Traditio in Rufinus of Aquileia's Commentary on the Apostles' Creed
Catherine M. Chin
3. "All the more reason to take up residence there, since the Devil haunts it": The
Bishop as Ascetic Struggler in St. Gregory the Great's Dialogues
Robert Llizo
Kalamazoo 2012
Late Antiquity I: Christianity and Culture in Western Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Deanna Forsman, North Hennepin Community College
1. Literature and/as Religion: Christianity and the Reception of Virgil in Saturnalia
Eric Hutchinson, Hillsdale College
2. Virgilian Fama as Christian Courier in Jerome's Epistles
Angela Kinney, Dumbarton Oaks
3. Vigilantius, Jerome, and Biblical Exegesis
Amy Oh, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4. The Codex Sangallensis 188 and the Corpus of Sermons of Maximus of Turin
Michael Brinks, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Angela Kinney, Dumbarton Oaks
1. The Politics of Empire and Desire in Late Roman Antiquity: A Post-sexual Revolution Era Reading of Saint Augustine's Confessions
Doug Jarvis, Carleton Univ.
2. Art and Rhetorical Education in the Late Antique Greek East
Craig A. Gibson, Univ. of Iowa
3. The Dionysiaca of Nonnos as a Typical Poem of Late Antiquity
Simon M. Zuenelli, Leopold-Franzens-Univ. Innsbruck
4. On Avarice: Eusebius of Emesa and John Chrysostom
Robert E. Winn, Northwestern College, Iowa
Late Antiquity III: Material Culture and Frontiers in Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Michael Brinks, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1. The Lower Danube and the Frontier Question in Late Antiquity
Andrei Gandila, Univ. of Florida
2. "Ab exterioribus ad interiora," or, Attribution of the Pereshchepina Treasure
Michael M. Choref, Tyumen State Univ.
3. Late Antique Baths at Ostia: A Case Study in Public Building in the West
Douglas Underwood, Univ. of St. Andrews
4. Relics and the Rhetoric of Authority in Gregory the Great
David L. Eastman, Ohio Wesleyan Univ
Kalamazoo 2013
Late Antiquity I: Secular And Religious Life In Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chair: Ralph Mathisen,
1. Fragile Evidence: Decorated Glass in Late Antique Rome
Stephanie Smith, Youngstown State University
2. A Second Seal Matrix of Alaric, Rex Gothorum
Genevra Kornbluth, Kornbluth Photography
3. Why Rogationtide is not the Ambarvalia
Nathan J. Ristuccia, University of Notre Dame
4. Bishop Caesarius of Arles' Reluctant Healing Miracles: Monastic versus Martinian Spirituality
Giselle de Nie, Utrecht University
Late Antiquity II: Barbarians, Communication, And Frontiers
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chair: Genevra Kornbluth
1. Incommodae viae: Sidonius and Ennodius on Post-Roman Travel
Jonathan J. Arnold, University of Tulsa
2. The Prosopography of Communication in Merovingian Gaul, ca. 560-610
Bernard Bachrach, University of Minnesota
3. Circles of Trust: Late Antique Byzantine Generals and Their Officers
David Parnell, Indiana University Northwest
4. A Cultural Basin Between Empires: Geography and Identity in Late Roman Arabia
David Harris, University of Illinois
Late Antiquity III: Late Latin Literature
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Chair: Giselle de Nie
1. Sts. Peter and Paul and the See of Rome in the Sermons of Chromatius of Aquileia, Gaudentius of Brescia, and Maximus of Turin
Michael Brinks, University of Illinois
2. The Transformation of Epic in Late Antiquity: The Depiction of Judas in Iuvencus and Sedulius. On Greed and Genre
Michael Müller, University of Köln
3. Cassiodorus' Variae: Panegyric in Letter Form
Christine Radtki, University of Köln
4. The Prose Vitae of Venantius Fortunatus and Cult Formation in Sixth-Century Gaul
Kent Navalesi, University of Illinois
Kalamazoo 2014
Late Antiquity I: Religion and Society in Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Jason Moralee, Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst
1. Chromatius the Origenist? The Body of God, the Resurrection Body, and the Body of the Text in Chromatius of Aquileia's Tractatus in Mathaeum
Michael Brinks, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2. Using the Names of the Just: The Role of Saints' Names in Late Antique Italy, 303-604
Eric Ware, Western Michigan Univ.
3. Marian Cult in Seventh-Century Constantinople: A Pivot Point in Late Antiquity
Richard Barrett, Indiana Univ.-Bloomington
4. Romans, Barbarians, and Burgundians in Early Burgundian Law
Erica Buchberger, College of Charleston
Late Antiquity II: Late Antique Italy
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Ralph W. Mathisen
1. Re-evaluating the Role of Pastoralists in the Late Roman Countryside: The View from Southern Italy
Darian Marie Totten, Davidson College
2. Age of Enclosure: Towards the Architectural and Urban Aesthetic of Late Antique Rome
Scott E. Craver, St. Bonaventure Univ.
3. Mapping Murder and Salvation in Late Antique Rome: The Acts of the Greek Martyrs (BHL 3970)
Jason Moralee, Univ. of Massachusetts-Amherst
4. Sieges, Occupations, and the Transformation of Communities in Late Antiquity
Glenn McDorman, Princeton Univ.
2015
Late Antiquity I: Documents and Language
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Deanna Forsman, North Hennepin Community College
1. Engineering of Empire: Making the Senatorial Aristocracy in Late Antiquity
Mariana Bodnaruk, Central European Univ./Cornell Univ.
2. The Subscriptio as a Guarantee of Orthodoxy in Late Antique Religious Debates
Samuel Cohen, McMaster Univ.
3. Peter Chrysologus and the Tradition of the Treatise on Kingship
Michael Brinks, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4. Greek Declamation and the Altar of Victory in the Fourth Century
Jeremy Swist, Univ. of Iowa
Late Antiquity II: Barbarian Europe
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Ralph W. Mathisen, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Presider: Michael Brinks, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
1. Galla Placidia and the Southern Gallic Regime, 413-415
Thomas Christopher Lawrence, Pennsylvania State Univ.
2. Lives, Lives, and Eternal Life: Teaching by Example in the Sixth-Century Gallic Church
E. T. McLaughlin, Univ. of Michigan-Ann Arbor
3. Views of Abraham in Late Antiquity: From "Father of Faith" to "Foreigner in a Strange Land"
Deanna Forsman, North Hennepin Community College
4. Mounds Gone Missing: A Merovingian Mystery Case
Bailey Young, Eastern Illinois Univ.
2019
Late Antiquity I: Staying Pagan, Being and Becoming Christian
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Jonathan J. Arnold, Univ. of Tulsa
Presider: A. E. T. McLaughlin, Gannon Univ.
1. The Vestal Virgins of Fourth-Century CE Rome
Casey M. Stark, Bowling Green State Univ.
2. The Politics of a Beautiful Body: Antony, Constantine, and the Aesthetics of Christian Piety
Benjamin Hansen, Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities
3. Romans and Foederati: The Arabian Peninsula between the Fourth and Fifth Centuries
Valentina A. Grasso, Univ. of Cambridge
Late Antiquity II: Revisiting Sources
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Jonathan J. Arnold, Univ. of Tulsa
Presider: Samuel Cohen, Sonoma State Univ.
1. A Microhistorical Approach to John of Ephesus (ca. 507-588)
Walter Beers, Princeton Univ.
2. "Victory is enough for the wise": Procopius, Agathias, and the last Ostrogoths
Marco Cristini, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Late Antiquity III: Christian Practice and Power
Sponsor: Society for Late Antiquity
Organizer: Jonathan J. Arnold, Univ. of Tulsa
Presider: Jonathan J. Arnold
1. The Cemetery as Contested Space in Late Antiquity
Samuel Cohen, Sonoma State Univ.
2. A Community Built on Virtue: The Exemplary Pedagogy of Caesarius of Arles
E. T. McLaughlin, Gannon Univ.
3. Justin II and the North African Triacapitoline Schismatics
Benjamin Wheaton, Univ. of Toronto