Program

*All sessions will convene at the Green College Coachhouse. 

Wednesday, Oct. 16

9:15: Preliminary remarks
9:30–11:00: session #1 – Augustine & His Readers

chair: Gregg Gardner (UBC, Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies)

  • Susanna Elm (Univ. California, Berkeley), “‘Civitas capta:’ Augustine’s Cross-references to Livy in the City of God (Book 1)”
  • Conrad Leyser (Univ. Oxford), “Unfinished Business: Augustine and his Monastic Readers, 425-435” [remote presentation]
  • Mor Hajbi (Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem), “The Post-Augustinians on Time, History, and Eschatology”
11:15–12:30: session #2 – Rereading, Redescribing: New Approaches 

chair: Bonnie Effros (UBC, History)

  • Sean Hannan (MacEwan Univ.), “Rereading Augustine as Algerian”
  • Éric Rebillard (Cornell Univ.),  “Redescribing the Triumph of Christianity”
12:30: lunch
2:15–4:00: session #3 – Late Antique Texts, Medieval Interventions 

chair: Richard Unger (UBC, History)

  • Jean-Félix Aubé-Pronce (Univ. Quebec, Montreal), “Were the Carolingians Pseudo-editing?”
  • Marina Giani (Univ. Milan), “Augustine’s Reception in Medieval Lexicography: An Overview through Case Studies”
  • Riccardo Macchioro (Univ. Toronto), “The Words of the Fathers, the Words of the Compiler: Patristic Texts in Paul the Deacon’s Homiliary”
  • Graeme Ward (Univ. Tübingen), “Orosius and the Reading of Ancient Christian History in Eleventh-Century France”

Thursday, Oct. 17

9:15–10:45: session #4 – Poets, Philosophers, and Exegetes (or Writers, Not-Writers, and ‘Digital’ Writers) 

chair: Paul Allen (Corpus Christi College)

  • Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr College), “Song, Self, and Sonority in Paulinus and Nicetas”
  • Sabrina Inowlocki (Univ. Haifa), “Enemas, Parasites, and the Empty Book: To Write or Not to Write as a Philosopher in the Roman World” [remote presentation]
  • Josh Timmermann (UBC), “Jesus as Writer? The Pericope adulterae in Late Antique and Early Medieval Exegesis and Modern Biblical Criticism”
11:15–12:30: session #5 – Writing the Soul and Salvation in Late Antiquity 

chair: John Christopoulos (UBC, History)

  • Jesse Keskiaho (Univ. Helsinki), “The Nature of the Soul from Augustine to Gregory the Great”
  • Martina Carandino (Univ. Oxford), “The Destiny of Unborn Children in Late Antiquity”
12:30: lunch
2:15–4:00: session #6 [student session] – Holy Men (of Letters) in Perilous Times

chair: Sara Ann Knutson (UBC, History)

  • Crispin Wellburn (UBC), “The Hun and the Holy Man: The Reception and Transformation of Leo the Great’s Meeting with Attila the Hun”
  • Anika Islam (UBC), “‘Together We Shall Carry the Cross (Just Each in His Own Way)’: Repentance and Salvation in Augustine’s Confessions and Their Incarnations in Christian Literature”
  • Simeon Faehndrich (UBC), “‘With a Familiar Violence’: Becoming the Reader in Augustine’s Confessions“
  • Sabina Druce (UBC), “Influence and Critique: Origins and Impact of Henri-Xavier Arquillière’s L’Augustinisme Politique“
5:00–6:30: Keynote Lecture 
  • James J. O’Donnell (Arizona State Univ.), “What Was Christianity?”*
6:30: Reception

Friday, Oct. 18

9:15–10:45: session #7 – Jerome, Rufinus, and Their Interlocutors 

chair: Leanne Bablitz (UBC, Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies)

  • Neil McLynn (Univ. Oxford), “Marcella’s Jerome” [remote presentation]
  • Matthieu Pignot (Univ. Namur), “Rediscovering the Enchiridion of Rufinus of Aquileia”
  • Andrew Cain (Univ. Colorado, Boulder), “The Translator as Author in Late Latin Literature: Rufinus of Aquileia and his Historia monachorum in Aegypto” [remote presentation]
11:00–12:30: session #8 – Writing (and Editing) Ancient (and Medieval) Christianity in Early Modern Europe  

chair: Courtney Booker (UBC, History)

  • Paolo Sachet (Univ. Geneva), “Jerome’s Letters Hit the Press: A Reappraisal of the First Five Editions” [remote presentation]
  • Rutger Kramer (Utrecht Univ.), “A Human(ist) Saint: The Life of Saint Adalhard of Corbie by Cornelius Aurelius (c. 1500)” [remote presentation]
  • Hilmar Pabel (Simon Fraser Univ.), “Who Owns History? Peter Canisius’ Catholic Claim on Ancient Christianity against Protestant Revisionists”
12:30: Concluding remarks
2:30: Optional group visit to UBC’s Museum of Anthropology

After a break for lunch (not served at Green College, inquire for other on-campus dining options), we will depart from the Green College Coachhouse for the nearby museum (admission $25 CAD, for students or seniors $22 CAD).

 

*The Keynote Lecture is open to all (registration not required), and will also be live-streamed here.

Meeting ID: 631 1401 4919

Passcode: 351074