*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: Josh Timmermann (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
moderator: Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr College)
- James J. O’Donnell (Arizona State Univ.), “What Was Christianity?”*
Friday, Oct. 18
9:15–10:45: session #7 – Jerome, Rufinus, and Their Interlocutors
chair: Mark Vessey (UBC, English)
- 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]
11:00–12:15: 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]
- 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