2016 Annual Meeting Program Booklet Thursday, May 26 – Saturday, May 28, 2016 Hyatt Regency Chicago Chicago, Illinois North American Patristics Society Officers Susanna Elm, President (2014-2016) Kate Cooper, Vice-President/President Elect (2014-2016) Brian Matz, Secretary/Treasurer (2012-2016) Robin M. Jensen, Immediate Past President (2014-2016) Board Members Stephen A. Cooper, Member at Large (2013-2016) Ellen Muehlberger, Member at Large (2013-2016) Christine Shepardson, Member at Large (2014-2017) Young Kim, Member at Large (2014-2017) Travis Proctor, Student Member at Large (2014-2016) Stephen Shoemaker, editor of JECS (2012-2015) ex officio Christopher Beeley, editor of CLA Series (2011-2016) ex officio Nominating Committee Jonathan Yates, Chair Vasiliki Limberis Stephen Caner Journal of Early Christian Studies Stephen Shoemaker, Editor David Eastman, Book Review Editor Christianity in Late Antiquity Monograph Series Christopher Beeley, Editor Dear NAPS Members and Conference Participants, Welcome to the 2016 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society. Our Vice-President, Kate Cooper, has put together an outstanding program for us this year. Kate had excellent assistance from NAPS Board members Young Richard Kim and Christine (Tina) Shepardson. They are a wonderful team! Please join me in extending our gratitude to them all for the generous gift of their time and effort. This year’s plenary speakers are Anne Marie Luijendijk, Princeton University, speaking on Thursday evening on “From Gospels to Garbage: Christian Reading Practices in Late Antique Egypt.” Our traditional dessert reception will follow that event, which will also offer us the opportunity to honor Kenneth Steinhauser. I will be delivering the Presidential Address on Friday morning, “New Romans: Salvian of Marseilles on the Governance of God,” and on Saturday morning we will hear from Carol Harrison of Oxford University, who will speak about “Sounding Silence: Music And The Ineffable In The Early Church.” Our three days will be filled with presentations, panels, discussions, and hallway conversations. There will be over seventy sessions fit into seven time slots, so attendees will have to make some difficult choices. As always we will have our banquet on Friday evening, which will feature Columba Stewart (St. John’s School of Theology) “On Preserving Words and Worlds.” And there will be coffee breaks, continental breakfasts, and other opportunities to socialize with colleagues and friends. I look forward to our time together and hope that each and every one of you has a fruitful and enjoyable conference. Susanna Elm University of California, Berkeley President, North American Patristics Society 3 NAPS ANNUAL MEETING 2016 PROGRAM-AT-A-GLANCE Thursday May 26th Friday May 27th Saturday May 28th (Weds May 25th, 2-5 pm and Thurs May 7:30–9:00 am: Continental Breakfast 7:30–9:00 am: Continental Breakfast 26th, 9–11 am: Meeting of the Board of 8:00-8:45am: Graduate Student Caucus Directors) Meeting 9:00–10:40 am 9:00–10:40 10:00–5:00: Exhibits Open Session 4: Panels 4A-4L Session 10: Panels 10A-10L 10:40–11:00 10:40–11:00 Morning Coffee Break Morning Coffee Break 9 am – 12 Noon: Pre-Conference Workshops 11:00 am–12:00 Noon 11:00 Am –12:00 Noon for Digital Humanities and ReMeDHe Session 5: NAPS Presidential Address Session 11: Plenary Lecture: Susanna Elm Carol Harrison [pre-registration required; for more details, New Romans: Salvian of Marseilles and the Sounding Silence: Music And The Ineffable go to: http://patristics.org/annual- Governance of God In The Early Church meeting/registration-and- accommodations/] 12-1:30 pm 12:00–1:30 pm 12:00-1:30 pm Lunch (on your own ) Lunch (on your own ) Lunch (on your own ) 1:30–3:10 1:30–3:10 pm 1:30–3:10 Session 1: Panels 1A-1L Session 6: Panels 6A-6L Session 12: Panel 12A-12L 3:10-3:30 pm 3:10–3:30 pm Afternoon Coffee Break Afternoon Coffee Break 3:30–5:10 pm 3:30–5:10 pm Session 2: Panels 2A-2L Session 7: Panels 7A-7L 5:10–7:30: 5:15–6:30 pm Dinner Break (on your own ) Sessions 8 & 9: Session 8: Instrumenta Studiorum (5:15–5:30 pm) Session 9: NAPS Business Meeting (5:30- 6:30 pm) 6:30–7:30 pm: JECS Business Meeting 7:30–8:30 pm 7:30–9:30 pm: Session 3: Plenary Lecture Banquet Buffet AnneMarie Luijendijk After Dinner Presentation: From Gospels to Garbage: Christian Reading Columba Stewart Practices in Late Antique Egypt Preserving Words and Worlds 8:30-8:45pm NAPS Lifetime Achievement Award Presentation 8:45–10:30 pm: Dessert Reception 4 NAPS ANNUAL MEETING 2016 PROGRAM Wednesday, May 25, 2016 2:00pm–5:00pm: Meeting of the NAPS Board of Directors Location: Dusable Chair: Susanna Elm, University of California, Berkeley Thursday, May 26, 2016 9:00am–11:00am: Meeting of the NAPS Board of Directors Location: Dusable Chair: Susanna Elm, University of California, Berkeley 10:00am–5:00pm: Exhibits Open Location: Crystal Ballroom C 9:00am–12:00pm: Pre-Conference Workshops Workshop I: Religion and Medicine, Disability, and Health in Late Antiquity Location: Gold Coast ** Chairs: Heidi Marx-Wolf, University of Manitoba, and Kristi Upson-Saia, Occidental College At this workshop, participants will have a chance to get acquainted with other scholars working on topics related to religion, medicine, disability, and health in late antiquity. During the formal program, we will: 1) discuss available funding sources and possible collaborations; and 2) solicit feedback on an ancient medicine reader in preparation. To register (free of charge), please RSVP at: http://goo.gl/forms/rBVPrnKcMr 5 Workshop II: Digital Humanities Workshop: Sicut Augustinus dixit: Computational Tools for Testing Authorship as an Introduction to “Distant Reading” Location: Water Tower Chairs: Alex Poulos, Catholic University of America, and Paul Dilley, University of Iowa This hands-on workshop is designed to introduce patrologists to one particular part of the burgeoning field of digital humanities: computational stylistics. Authorship attribution is a particularly pesky problem, and a number of computational methods have emerged over the past fifteen years that promise help to scholars of early Christianity, e.g., in sorting through vast quantities of pseudo-Augustine, or pseudo-John Chrysostom. Such methods, however, also have their limitations: they require machine readable texts (something not always available for patristic texts); and a known body of “authentic” work against which to compare; they generally do not work well if selected/designated texts belong to different genres; they are likewise monolingual in operation: allowing comparison of works preserved solely in the same language (though they work quite well even on inflected languages like Ancient Greek and Latin). After presenting the promise and limitations of computational stylistics to participants in this workshop, we will introduce them to “stylo,” a package built on top of “R”, a freely available platform for statistical analysis. Our primary test case will be the Augustinian sermons, and our primary question will be to evaluate the evidence for Augustinian authorship of Sermones contra Iudaeos, Paganos, et Arrianos, which scholars now attribute to Quodvultdeus. Beyond this, we will consider the impact of genre by examining texts from Jerome and Augustine that belong to different genres. To register (free of charge), please RSVP at: http://goo.gl/forms/idx5LxOnpd. Workshop attendees are asked: 1. To bring a laptop. 2. To install the R Software Platform and stylo module ahead of time (directions for this will be distributed before the conference). 6 Workshop III: Digital Humanities Workshop: Terra Biblica: Creating Interactive Maps for Research in Classroom Use Location: Soldier Field Chair: Sarah Bond, University of Iowa A large part of the field of Digital Humanities involves the use of digital tools to create models that facilitate deeper understanding. This workshop take a hands-on approach to exploring the field of “spatial humanities” as it applies to the study of early Christianity, and asks how the use of maps to model and contextualize texts, data, and images can enhance both the classroom experience and research. In particular, we will focus on the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) in the Digital Humanities. These computer systems have given academics new tools with which to associate previously disparate data and a means to visualize the written word, but they also allow scholars to uncover new relationships between various sources of information. First, we will focus on the history, development, and use of GIS as a technology, and detail some ways in which it has been applied within digital humanities projects. Participants will then be introduced to the file formats used to save geospatial data (e.g., CSV files), the geographic tools used to visualize this data (e.g., Google Maps and Google Earth, ArcGIS, MapBox, Leaflet), and the notations used to express these geographic visualizations and annotations (e.g., KML, JSON, Shapefiles). In the final part of the workshop, participants will work in pairs to organize, visualize, and interpret their own datasets using these tools.* The ultimate goal of the session is not only to create a number of dynamic digital maps that can be printed out and placed on the kitchen fridge, but also to provide participants with the tools and resources they need to engage in thinking about texts, images, and data through a new, spatial prism. Please RSVP by e-mail to Sarah Bond ([email protected]). Workshop attendees are