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Tuesday August 7 Priesthood and Episcopacy
9.00 Susanna Elm: “Hellenism and the Bishop”
9.20. Joseph Müller: “Jewish Roots of Ancient Elections of Christian Bishops”
9.40. Christine Trevett: “Firmilian and his Circle”
10.00. Richard Kim: “Bad Bishops Corrupt Good Emperors: Ecclesiastical Authority and the Rhetoric of Heresy in the Panarion of Epiphanius of Cyprus”
11.20. Turhan Kaçar: “The Election of Nectarius: The Cilician Political Factor in Late Fourth- Century Constantinople”
11.40. Daniel van Slyke: “Martin of Tours and the Order of Exorcist”
12.00. Geoffrey Greatrex: “The Fall of Macedonius (511) Reconsidered”
12.20. David Hunt: “The Bishop and the Prostitute: Dirty Tricks and Diplomacy after the Council of Sardinia”
12.40. J.J. van Ginkel: “John of Dara on Priesthood and its Historiographical Implications”
------Wednesday August 8 The Making of Dogma
9.00. Clark Carlton: “The ‘Language Game of Dogmatic Polemics: A Fifth-Century Case Study”
9.20. Michele Cataudella: “L’Ecumene dei Padri fra “Scienza’ e Propaganda”
9.40. Larry Duran: “The Athanasian Creed: Begotten but Coeternal?”
10.00. Robert Royalty: “Heresy before ‘Heresy’: the Discursive Origins of Early Orthodoxy”
Editions and Discoveries
11.20. John Duffy: “New Fragments of Sophronius of Jerusalem and Aristo of Pella?”
11.40. Britt Dahlman: “An Edition of the Greek Life of Onouphrios”
12.00. Jean Reynard: “Un inédit à paraître aux Sources Chrétiennes: le mystère des letters grecques”
12.20. Dimitrios Zaganas: “Deux fragments inédits de l’In Isaiam de Cyrille d’Alexandrie”
12.40. Thomas Schmidt: “Scholies inédits de Basile le Minime, commentateur de Grégoire de Nazianze”
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Thursday August 9 Christians and Jews
9.00. Arne Hobbel: “Philo and the Early Church Fathers”
9.20. J.G.M. Reuling: “Church Fathers and Rabbis on Psalm 22 (Masoretic Text)”
9.40. Catherine Tkacz: “Esther as a Type of Christ and the Jewish Celebration of Purim”
10.00. István Bugar: “Images of Jews and Christians in the Seventh Century: The Narratio de Imagine in Beryto and its Context”
Patristic Hermeneutics
11.20. Piotr Paciorek: “An Anthropological Hermeneutic in Patristic Theology”
11.40. Benôit Gain: “Le respect du au livres des Écritures: quelques témoignages patristiques
12.00. Kari Kloos: “Christ the Revealer: Patristic Views on the Mediation of Christ in the Old Testament”
12.20. Mark Elliott: “The Patristic Homily as Secret Weapon”
12.40. Carol Harrison: “The Construction of the Hearer in Late Antiquity”
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Friday August 10 Patristic Exegesis
9.00. Peter Widdicombe: “The Drunkenness of Noah and the Patristic Legacy in Text and Art”
9.20. Mathilde Aussedat: “The Exegesis of the Book of Jeremiah in the Greek Exegetical Catenae”
9.40. Kenneth Stevenson: “The Transfiguration Narratives in the Latin Fathers”
10.00. Hellen Dayton: “The Use of St Luke 10.38-42: Christ as a Guest in the House of Mary and Martha”
11.20. Damian Casey: “Universal Salvation and John 14.6”
11.40. Marco Rizzi: “Romans XIII in Early Patristic Exegesis”
12.00. Augustine Curley: “The Hidden Gospel: Patristic Commentary on Romans 16.21-28”
12.20. Rocco Borgognoni: “No Animals in the New Paradise: Patristic Exegesis of Isaiah’s Peaceful Kingdom”
12.40. Catherine Lefort: “Le baiser de Judas dans l’interprétation symbolique de l’église ancienne”
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ROOM 2 Tuesday August 7 Second Century
9.20. David Rankin: “Athenagoras, Philosopher and First Principles”
9.40. Jeffrey Bingham: “Scripture as Apology in Athenagoras of Athens”
10.00. Lásló Perendy: “The Outlines of Systematic Theology in the Ad Autolycum of Theophilus of Antioch”
11.20. Anthony Briggman: “Dating Irenaeus’ Acquisition of Theophilus’ Correspondence to Autolycus: A Pnaumatological Perspective
11.40. Christopher Bounds: “Competing Doctrines of Christian Perfection: The Primary Issue in Irenaeus’ refutation of Gnosticism”
12.00. Harald Buchinger: “Eine vergessene Etymologie des Pascha: Irenäus von Lyon und die Onomastica Sacra”
12.20. Katherine Bracht: “Really a Commentary? The Problem of the Genre of Hippolytus’ Commentary on Daniel”
12.40. David du Toit: “Hippolytus, In Danielem 11.27.5ff and Nomina Sacra: Some Observations” ------
Wednesday August 8 Ignatius of Antioch
9.00. Michael Svigel: “The Centre of Ignatius of Antioch’s Catholic Christianity”
9.20. Ferdinando Bergamelli: “Lasciate che io riceva la pura luce. Giunto là sarò uomo (Romani 6.2). L’antropologia d’Ignazio”
9.40. David Reis: “Surveillance, Interrogation and Discipline: inside Ignatius’ Panopticon”
10.00. Diane Lipsett: “Apostolic Fathers on the Erotics of Virtue: Hermas, Ignatius and 1 and 2 Clement”
Heresiology
11.20. Yannis Papadogiannakis: “Anti-Marcionite and anti-Manichaean Arguments in pseudo- Justin’s Quaestiones et responsiones ad orthodoxos”
12.40. Joshua Papsdorf: “Filastrius of Brescia’s Catalogue of Heresies”
3 Thursday August 9 Apostolic Fathers
9.00. Tim Hegedus: “Midrash in the Letter of Barnabas”
9.20. Paul Hartog: “Polycarp’s Martyrdom ‘According to the Gospel’ and Paul’s Philippians”
9.40. Noel Fitzpatrick: “The First Letters of Paul and Clement to the Christians”
10.00. David Robinson: “Dipsychia and the Spiritual Life in the Shepherd of Hermas”
Western Theology: Fifth Century
11.20. Gertrude Gillette: “Why does Cassian Align Friendship and Anger in his Conference 16?”
11.40. Mark Sheridan: “First Movements (propatheiai) in John Cassian”
12.00. Maureen Tilley: “Asceticism and Embroidery in Rules for Nuns by Caesarius of Arles”
12.20. Vincenzo Messana: “Aspetti instituzionali e referimenti normative in Salviano di Marsiglia”
12.40. Rita Zanotto: “Tracca dela liturgia ariana nel documenti Ravennati de eta teodericiana”
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Friday August 10 The First Apologists
9.00. Clayton Jefford: “Musings on the Epistle to Diognetus”
9.20. John Adair: “The Power and Will of God: A Comment on Justin’s Christology”
9.40. Khaled Anatolios: “Trinitarian Doctrine and Christological Narrative in Justin Martyr”
10.00. Carl Baechle: “Justin Martyr and the Use of Sacred Scripture”
11.20. Denis Minns: “The Text of Justin’s Apologies”
11.40. James Jeffers: “Separating the Inseparable: How Justin Martyr and Athenagoras Sought to Separate the Political and Religious Aspects of Emperor Worship”
12.00. Leszek Misiarczyk: “Are the Texts of the Greek Apologists of the Second Century Really Apologetic?”
12.20. Gene Fojtik: “Tatian the Barbarian: Language, Education and Identity in the Oratio ad Graecos “
12.40. Joseph Lössl: “Hermeneutics and the Concept of God in Tatian’s Ad Graecos”
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Tuesday August 7 Apocrypha
9.00. Marek Starowieyski: “Le figure de Judas dans les apocryphes”
9.20. Woody McCree: “The Gospel of Truth and its Alexandrian Matrix”
9.40. Reider Aasgaard: “The Gospel for Early Christian Children: a Re-assessment of the Infancy Gospel of Thomas”
10.00. Charles Hill: “Serapion, the Gospel of Peter and a Four Gospel Canon at the End of the Second Century”
11.20. Helen Rhee: “Wealth and the Wealthy in the Acts of Peter”
11.40. Marek Starowieyski: ”Les apôtres dans les apocryphes”
12.00. Nicole Kelley: “The Epidemiology of Religion in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies”
12.20. Stephen Shoemaker: “Asceticism in the Early Dormition Apocrypha”
12.40. Adriana Bara: “The Apocryphal Writings Represented in Icons” ------
Wednesday August 8 Clement of Alexandria
9.00. David O’Brien: “Entering the Kingdom with Difficulty: The Problem of the Wealthy in Hermas and Clement of Alexandria”
9.20. Andrew Dinan: “Ainigma and ainittomia in the Works of Clement of Alexandria”
9.40. Henny Fiskå Hägg: “Deification in Clement of Alexandria”
10.00. Matthew Lootens: “Pistis in Clement of Alexandria: A New Perspective”
11.20. Ulrich Neymeyr: “Segen bei Clemens von Alexandrien”
11.40. Jana Platova: “Bemerkungen zu den Hypotyposen-Fragmente des Clemens Alexandrinus”
12.00. Ute Possekel: “’Children of God’ in Clement of Alexandria
12.20. Jan van Pottelberge: “Is Clement of Alexandria Really the Author of the Exhortation of Endurance (fr. 44 Stählin)?. Linguistic Arguments.”
12.40. Ronald Kydd: “Polemics and the Gifts of the Spirit in Tertullian, Irenaeus and the Excerpts from Theodotus”
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Room 6 Thursday August 9 Early Western Christianity
9.00. Earl Muller: “A Distinctive Feature of Early Roman Angelomorphic Christology”
9.20. Richard Tomsick: “Structure and Exegesis in Tertullian’s Ad Uxorem and De Exhortatione Castitatis”
9.40. Annemieke ter Brugge: “Between Adam and Aeneas: Tertullian on Rejection and Appropriation of Roman Culture”
10.00. Matthew Steenberg: “Sinful Nature as Second Nature in Tertullian of Carthage”
11.20. Annemarie Mayer: “Cyprian’s Notion of Unity – an Ecumenical Aim?”
11.40. Stefan Freund: “Laktanz und die Johannesoffenbarung”
12.00. Gabor Kendeffy: “The Functioning of the Two Ways as seen by Lactantius”
12.20. Daniel de Decker: “How far can we rely on Lactantius’ Testimony in The Deaths of the Persecutors?”
12.40. Octavian Gordon: “Is De Mortibus Persecutorum Really an Orphan?”
------Friday August 10 Origen on Scripture
9.00. Karl Shuve “Origen’s Doctrine of Scripture in Light of his Text-critical Activities”
9.20. Allan Johnson: “The Name of Jesus: Consequences of Preaching in Origen’s Homilies on Joshua”
9.40. Miyako Demura: “Origen as Biblical Scholar: the use of Pauline Epistles in his Interpretation of the Synoptic Gospels”
10.00. Joseph O’Leary: “Platonist Dissolution of History in Origen’s Commentary on John”
11.20. Sarah Spangler: “Christology and Metaphysics in Origen’s Commentary on John”
11.40. Anna Tzvetkova-Glaser: “The Polemics against Jewish-Christian Practice in Origen’s Homilies”
12.00. Rota Stone: “Origen’s Pharaoh versus Rabbinic Pharaoh”
12.20. Jordan Smith: “The Image of Perfection: the Martyr and Jesus in Origen of Alexandria”
12.40. Dominica Kurek-Chomycz: “The Spiritual Sense of Smell: 2Cor 2.15 in the Interpretation of Origen and Gregory of Nyssa”
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ROOM 9 Tuesday August 7 Origen
9.00. José Alviar: “A Second Look at Origen’s Notion of Rationality”
9.20. Manuel Belda: “La oración continua en el tratado De Oratione de Origenes”
9.40. David Robertson: “Origen on Inner and Outer Logos”
10.00. Katharina Comoth: “Im Gesprach mit Origenes: meine Kirche (Matt 16.18) und die ekklesia der attischen polis”
After Origen
11.20. Peter Steiger: Peter and Paul in the Commentaries of Didymus the Blind”
11.40. Ilaria Ramelli: “The Concepts of Aiôn and Aiônios in Origen and Gregory of Nyssa”
12.00. Maria Aguilar: “Darkness Came Over the Land: Acedia and Meditation in the Ascetic Works of Evagrius Ponticus”
12.20. Augustine Casiday: “Universal Restoration in Evagrius Ponticus’ Great Letter”
12.40. Anthony Rich: “Discerning Evagrius Discerning”
------Wednesday August 8 The Church in the Roman World
9.00. James Smith: “As the Romans saw them: Reflections on the Significance of the Alexamenos Graffiti”
9.20. Aaron Johnson: “Porphyry on Hellenicity and Christianity: Rethinking the Authenticity of Contra Christianos I”
9.40. Sebastien Morlet: La Démonstration Évangélique d’Eusèbe de Césarée et le traité de Porphyre contre les chrétiens: une fausse piste?”
10.00. Dennis Quinn: “Roman Household Deities in the Latin Fathers”
11.20. Arthur Urbano: “Drawing the Lines: Porphyry, Eusebius and the Transformation of Platonism”
11.40.Francine Cardman: “Eusebius and Lactantius on History, Providence and the Ethics of Empire”
12.00. Josef Rist: “Das Orakel des Apollon in Daphne und das Christentum”
12.20. Dragos Mirsanu: “The Character of the Literary Reaction to the Arianism of the Barbarians in Late Antiquity”
12.40. Christian Lange: “Rome, even like the Church, was rent in twain: Syriac Chronographers on the End of the Western Empire” 7
Room 9 Thursday August 9 The Age of Constantine
9.00. David Woods: “The Deathbed Conversion of Galerius Maximianus to Religious Tolerance: Fact or Fraud?”
9.20. Theofried Baumeister: “Kaiser Konstantin der Grösse und die christlichen Märtyrer”
9.40. David Gwynn: “Eusebius of Nicomedia: a Court Bishop for Constantine?”
10.00. Harold Drake: “Is there a Corpus in the Vita Constantini?”
Eusebius
11.20. Timothy Barnes: “The Letter of Eusebius to Constantia”
11.40. Robert Williams: “Eusebius on Fate and Free Will (Praeparatio Evangelica 6)”
12.00. Jeremy Schott: “The Quotation of Sources in Eusebius of Caesarea’s Praeparatio and Demonstratio Evangelica: Dialogism, Monologism and the Christian Text”
12.20. Michael Simmons: “Universalism in the Demonstratio Evangelica of Eusebius of Caesarea”
12.40. Elizabeth Penland: “Women and Literate Education in Eusebius”
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8 Room 9 Friday August 10 Philosophy and Christianity
9.00. Piotr Ashwin-Siejkowski: “Porphyry’s Sententiae as an Ethical Spiritual Guidebook to the Neoplatonic Life”
9.20. Elizabeth Digeser: “Porphyry and Methodius”
9.40. Michael McCarthy: “Pagan and Christian Embarrassment over Divine Wrath”
10.00. Stefanie Frost: “How the Early Christians Discovered the Soul”
11.20. James Patterson: “A Justifiable Suicide: Christian Neoplatonism and a Reinterpretation of Plato’s Phaedo”
11.40. Julia Konstantinovsky: “The Relation between Christian Asceticism and Greek Ideals of Moral Perfection in the Fourth Century”
12.00. Marcello la Matina: “The Analytical Philosophy of Language and the Revelation of Person: Some Remarks on Gregory of Nyssa and Maximus the Confessor”
12.20. Peter Bruns: “Wer war Paul der Perser?”
12.40. Karin Schlapbach: “Spectaculum Naturae as Theatrical Experience: Observations on a Topos in Early Christian Writers”
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Room 10 Tuesday August 7 Trinitarian Doctrine in the Fourth Century
9.00. David Gwynn: “The ‘Arian Controversy’ from Nicaea (325) to Ariminum-Seleucia (359)”
9.20. Mark DelCogliano: “The Place of George of Laodicea in the Fourth-Century Trinitarian Debates”
9.40. Andrew Teal: “Athanasius and Apollinarius: who was the Chicken and who was the Egg?”
10.00. Michael Ghattas: “Die Bedeutung des geistlichen Lebens bei Didymus der Blinden von Alexandria in der Schriften von Tura”
11.20. David Kneip: “Didymus the Blind on the Holy Spirit”
11.40. Shawn Keogh: “Scripture, Creed and Liturgy in Cyril of Jerusalem’s Doctrine of the Holy Spirit”
12.00. Claudio Moreschini: “Tritheism in the Cappadocian Fathers”
12.20. Patrick Gray: “Disappearing Acts: The Greek Acts of Constantinople (381)”
12.40. Liuwe Westra: “How did Symbolum come to mean ‘Creed’? A Philological Investigation”
Wednesday August 8 Augustine and the Interior Life
9.00. John Bussanich: “Personal and Impersonal Elements in Augustinian Religious Experience
9.20. Martin Claes: “Limitations to the Principle of exercitatio mentis in Augustine’s Dialogues: on ratio and auctoritas
9.40. Marie-Anne Vannier: “Lumière et illumination chez Augustin: Reprise d’un Débat”
10.00. James Wetzel: “The Force of Memory: Reflections on the Divided House of Augustine’s Soul” Legislation and the Church
11.20. Timothy Barnes: “A Lost Law on Pagan Sacrifice”
11.40. Mark Bilby: “Gnostic under the Law: Gnosticism in Codex Theodosianum 16”
12.00. Robert Frakes: “Patterns and Puzzles in the Lex Dei (Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum)”
12.20. Susan Graham: “I have bested you, Solomon: Justinian, the Old Testament and the Jews”
12.40. Gianluca Pilara: “Ecclesiastical and Roman Justice in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries”
10 Room 10 Thursday August 9 Latin Interpretation and Translation
9.00. Arthur Holder: “Draw me, we will run after you: Canticle 1.3a in Latin Patristic Exegesis”
9.20. Hugh Houghton: “St John’s Gospel in the Early Latin Fathers”
9.40. Vít Hušek: “Human Freedom according to the Earliest Latin Commentaries on Paul’s Letters”
10.00. Janet Sidaway: “Life after Death: Hilary of Poitiers’ use of 1 Cor 15”
11.20. Catherine Chin: “Christianization and Translation: Rufinus and the Sentences of Sextus”
11.40. Jean-Marc Vercruysse: “Tyconius a-t-il lu Origène?”
12.00. Walter Dunphy: “Rufinus the Syrian and the Vulgate”
12.20. Eric Schebenske: “The Vulgate Primum Quaeritur: Codex Fuldensis and the Hermeneutical Role of Early Christian Introductory Materials”
12.40: Alexander Hwang: “The Authorship of the Pseudo-Augustinian Hypomnêstikon” ------
Friday August 10 Fourth-Century Latin Writers
9.00. John Voelker: “Marius Victorinus: Latin Nicene Witness to the Filioque”
9.20. Lenka Karfiková: “Time according to Marius Victorinus, Adversus Arium IV.15”
9.40. Walter Dunphy: “The Identity of Rufinus the Syrian”
10.00. Daniel Williams and Paul Burns: “New Light on Hilary’s Commentarium in Matthaeum”
Jerome
11.20. Francesco Pieri: “Terminologia Cristologica in Girolamo”
11.40. Richard Goodrich: “Jerome’s Ecclesiastes”
12.00. Koos Kritzinger: “St Jerome’s Exegetical Approach, as seen in Epistula 21”
12.20. Mark Withoos: “The Rhetoric of Marriage: Jerome the Master Craftsman”
12.40. Pauline Nugent: “Patristics and Pedagogy: Jerome and Augustine”
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Tuesday August 7 Basil of Caesarea and his Circle
9.00. Susan Holman: “Basil of Caesarea on the Common Good”
9.20. Manuel Mira Iborra: “Considerations about the Structure of Basil of Caesarea’s Tractate De Spiritu”
9.40. Anne Keidel: “Free Will in Basil of Caesarea”
10.00. Darren Sarisky: “Theological Interpretation of Scripture in Basil of Caesarea”
11.20. Shigeki Tsuchhashi: “Homotimia and sunarithmein in Basil of Caesarea’s De Spiritu Sancto”
11.40. Andrew Gallwitz: “Gregory of Nyssa’s Defence of Basil of Caesarea: Divine Simplicity and the Problem of Epinoia”
12.00. Enrico Ruaro: “Flying with Fleshy Wings: Pseudo-Basil’s Demonology in the Exegesis of Isaiah 2.20”
12.20. Jonathan Loopstra: “The Collected Letters of Basil and Gregory Nazianzen in the Syriac Manuscript Tradition”
12.40. Jackie Maxwell: “The Attitudes of the Cappadocian Fathers towards Uneducated Christians”
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Wednesday August 8 The Athanasian Corpus
9.00. W.H.K. Boulos: “St Athanasius’ Doctrine of Grace in Contra Arianos II”
9.20. Richard Flower: “How to Abuse an Emperor: Athanasius’ Invective against Constantius II?”
9.40. Dietmar Wyrwa: “Edition von Athanasius, Epistula ad Serapionem”
10.00. Thomas Weinandy: “Athanasius’ Letter to Marcellinus: A Soteriological Reading of the Psalms”
11.20. Felicidad Oberholzer: “The Devil, Demons and the Problem of Evil in Athanasius’ Life of Antony”
11.40. Rachel Smith: “The Rational Body in Athanasius of Alexandria’s Life of Antony and Marcel Mauss”
12.00. Christian Müller: “Athanasius Latinus: Untersuchungen des Phänomenon des Lateinischen Athanasius””
12.20. Andrew Teal: “How Authentic is the Antiochene Construct of Athanasius in Nestorius and Theodoret?”.
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Room 11 Thursday August 9 Gregory of Nyssa
9.00. Matthieu Cassin: “Structure et organization du Contre Eunome de Grégoire de Nysse”
9.20. Alexis Doval: “Angling for the Devil: Revisiting Gregory of Nyssa’s Atonement Metaphor”
9.40. Terttu Haikka: “Gregory of Nyssa’s In Canticum: Behind the Akathistos Hymn?”
10.00. Edmée Kingsmill: “Gregory of Nyssa on Canticle 5.2: ‘I sleep but my heart is awake’”
11.20. Giulio Maspero: “Eros in Plato and Gregory of Nyssa”
11.40. Charlotte Koeckert: “The Concept of Semen in Christian Cosmology (Gregory of Nyssa, Apologia in Hexaemeron)”
12.00. Martin Laird: “Gregory of Nyssa and Divinisation: a Reconsideration”
12.20. Anna Silvas: “In search of Basil's ascetic retreat: an expedition to Turkey”
12.40. Sandra Leuenberger-Wenger: “Ethics and Christian Identity in Gregory of Nyssa”
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Friday August 10 The World of the Cappadocians
9.00. Jennifer Nimmo Smith: “From Gorgias to Gregory of Nazianzus: A Platonic Formula Revisited”
9.20. Thomas Brauch: “Gregory of Nazianzus’ Letters 24 and 38 and Themistius of Constantinople”
9.40. Susan Wessel: “Human Action and the Passions in Nemesios of Emesa”
10.00. Despina Prassas: “Two Physician-Bishops: the Theological Anthropology of Basil of Ancyra and Nemesius of Emesa”
Gregory Nazianzen
11.20. Suzanne Abrams: “The Autobiographical Prosopopoeia of Gregory of Nazianzus”
11.40. Peter Bouteneff: “Whatever that may have been: Gregory of Nazianzus on Paradise”
12.00. Ben Fulford: “Gregory Nazianzen on Theological Language”
12.20. Verna Harrison: “The Word cries out from the Virgin’s Womb: Gregory of Nazianzus, Oration 45.13”
12.40. Norbert Widok: “Connotazione del lemme physis in riferimento al mondo creato negli scritti di Gregorio Nazianzeno”
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Tuesday August 7 John Chrysostom
9.00. Stephen Black: “John Chrysostom in Constantinople: A Reassessment”
9.20. Wendy Mayer: “John Chrysostom, Bishop and the Politics of Reform”
9.40. Elias Moutsoulas: “La personne du Christ dans l’histoire selon saint Jean Chrysostome”
10.00. Chris de Wet: “Chrysostom on Envy”
11.20. Livia Neureiter: “Health and Healing as Recurrent Topics in John Chrysostom’s Correspondence with Olympia”
11.40. Silke Sitzler: “Deviance and Destitution: Social Poverty in the Homilies of John Chrysostom”
12.00. David Rylaarsdam: “On Earth as if in Heaven: John Chrysostom on the Incarnation and the Priesthood”
12.20. Bella Sandwell: “John Chrysostom and the Construction of Christian Identity”
12.40. Constantine Bosinis: “What does Paganism mean for a Church Father? An Inquiry into the Meanings of the Term in Golden Mouth”
------Wednesday August 8 Antiochene Traditions
9.00. George Kalantzis: “Divine Simplicity and the Prosopic Union in Cyril of Alexandria and Theodore of Mopsuestia”
9.20. Valerie Karras: “Antiochene Views of the Prelapsarian Loss of the Imago Dei in Woman”
9.40. Nestor Kavvadas: “New Evidence of the Relations between the Eschatology of Isaac of Nineveh and Theodore of Mopsuestia”
10.00. Cyrille Crépey: “The True Sense of Literal Exegesis in John Chrysostom’s Homilies on Genesis (I-X)”
11.20. Lee Blackburn: “Public Insults, Angry Words and Figures of Speech in Chrysostom’s Homilies on Acts”
11.40. Paschalis Gkortsilas: “Paul’s Mouth: John Chrysostom’s Seven Encomiums to Paul. A Rhetorical and Philological Study”
12.00. Walt Stevenson: “John Chrysostom, Maruthas and Christian Evangelism in Sassanian Iran”
12.20. Witold Witakowski: “The Ethiopic Life of John Chrysostom”
12.40. Emilio Bonfiglio: “Ananio di Celeda interprete di Giovanni Crisostomo. Introduzione e saggio di edizione delle Homiliae in Matthaeum”
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Room 14 Thursday August 9 Fourth Century Greek Writers
9.00. David Eastman: “Epiphanius and the Wives of Peter and Paul in the Syriac Tradition”
9.20. Antony Gelston: “Cyril of Jerusalem’s Eucharistic Prayer: The Argument from Silence”
9.40. Kenneth Noakes: “Cyril of Jerusalem and the Spectrum of Reununciation”
10.00. Andrew Jacobs: “Pseudo-Amphilochius: In Circumcisionem (BHG 261): Early Evidence for the Feast of the Circumcision?”
Dionysius the Areopagite
11.20. Rosemary Arthur: “The Dating of the Pseudo-Dionysian Corpus”
11.40. David Newheiser: “Ambivalence in Dionysius the Areopagite: The Limitation of a Liturgical Reading”
12.00. Michael Harrington: “The Angel as the Place of God in Dionysius the Areopagite”
12.20. Ari Ojell: “The Most Evident Idea in Theology? Gregory of Nyssa and Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagita on Incarnation”
12.40. Joost Van Rossum: “The Eucharist as Symbol in Pseudo-Dionysius and Theophanes of Nicaea”
Friday August 10 Eastern Theology: Fifth Century
9.00. Soheil Eid Aziz: “The Parable of the Good Samaritan according to Cyril of Alexandria”
9.20. Daniel Keating: “Christology in Cyril and Leo: Unnoticed Parallels and Ironies”
9.40. Gregory Hillis: “The Role of the Holy Spirit in the Virginal Conception of Christ according to Cyril of Alexandria”
10.00. Jan-Erio Steppa: “Ilus, Leontius and the Hellenes: The Religious Dimsension of the Revolt against the Emperor Zeno in 484”
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11.40. Edward Moore: “Eutyches Reconsidered: Some Notes on a Christology (ill-) Conceived”
12.00. Hagit Amirav: “Political and Social Networks in the Council of Chalcedon”
12.20. Paul Parvis: “Theodoret’s Bias: the Aim of the Historia Ecclesiastica”
12.40. Brent Smith: “Theodoret and the Aesthetics of Asceticism”
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Tuesday August 7 Ambrose and his Times
9.00. Michael Williams: “Ambrose’s Argumentation in De Fide”
9.20. Angela Christman: “Narrative and Exegesis in Ambrose of Milan’s Expositio Psalmi CXVIII”
9.40. Finbarr Clancy: “The Church in St Ambrose’s Commentary on Luke”
10.00. Finbarr Clancy: “Repairing the Torn Garments of our Nature: Redemption in St Ambrose’s Commentary on Luke”
11.20. Francesco Braschi: “The Explanatio Psalmorum XIII by Ambrose of Milan: a Reading Proposal to Consider the Work as a Whole from a Literary, Rhetorical and Theological Point of View”
11.40. Michael Proulx: “For one who is your Equal: Ambrose of Milan’s Missions to Trier Revisited”
12.00. Marie Bussières: “Spiritus vitae, spiritus pectoris, spiritus sanctus: is it all the same? Ambrosiaster’s Pneumatology”
12.20. Remi Gounelle: “Le sermon pseudo-Augustinien 160: nouveaux éléments de datation”
12.40. Peter Schmidt: “Ein unidentifiziertes Fragment eines Damasus-Brifes”
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9.00. Brian Dunkle: “Roma docilis. Poetic and Imperial Authority in Prudentius’ Contra Symmachum”
9.20. Nils Rücker: “Topics of Exile in the Correspondence between Ausonius and Paulinus of Nola”
9.40. Thomas Ferguson: “Sidonius Apollinaris and the Muses: Reception of an Epic Tradition in the Poems and Letters”
10.00. Josef Grywaczewski: “The Passage from Romanitas to Christianity according to Sidonius Apollinaris”
11.20. Gavin Kelly: “Rutilius Namatianus and Monasticism”
11.40. Josef Grywaczewski: “La culture latine en Gaule à la veille et la chute de l’empire romain d’après les écrits de Sidoine Apollinaire”
12.00. Oliver Ehlen: “Venantius Fortunatus und das Heilige Kreuz: Das Figuringedicht Carmen 11, IV”
12.20. Christina Tommasi: “Roman and Christian History in Dracontius’ De Laudibus Dei”
12.40. Barbara Müller: “Nautical Metaphors in Gregory the Great”
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Room 15 Thursday August 9 The Papacy in Late Antiquity
9.00. Marianne Sághy: “Pope Damasus and the Politics of Asceticism in Fourth-Century Rome”
9.20. Hector Scerri: “Gregory the Great Deposes a Disobedient Bishop”
9.40. Pere Maymó: “Gregory the Great and Religious Alterity: Pagans in Christian Italy”
10.00. Alberto Ferreiro: “Profuturus of Braga, Pope Vigilius and Priscillianism”
Augustine’s Confessions
11.20. Matthew Robinson: “From Autobiography to Scriptural Exegesis: Augustine’s Confessions Unified by Grace”
11.40. Ron Haflidson: “The Unity of Augustine’s Confessions: the Challenge of the Last Three Books”
12.00. Robert Bernard: “Confessions 1.4 and the Talkative Rendered Mute: Neoplatonic Influence on an Augustinian Concept”
12.20. Tarmo Toom: “Augustine becoming Articulate: Confessions 1.8.13”
12.40. John O’Keefe: “Augustine on Wild Nature: The Vision at Ostia” ------Friday August 10 Augustine and Philosophy
9.00. Kenneth Steinhauser: “Augustine, Cicero and the Rusticanus: Contra Academicos III.15.34”
9.20. David Noe: “Videmus alios infantes: Stoic Cradle Arguments and Ciceronian Ratio in Confessions I”
9.40. Michael Foley: “Cassiciacum and the So-Called Turn to the Subject”
10.00. Christine Tornau: “Argumenta Platonicorum: Remarks on the Neoplatonic Background of Augustine’s De Immortalitate Animae and De Animae Quantitate”
11.20. Dongsun Cho: “Augustine’s Critique of the Platonic Concept of the Immortality of the Soul”
11.40. Victor Yudin: “Plato’s Share in Augustine’s Resurrection Theory”
12.00. Chad Gerber: “The Pneumatology of Augustine’s Cassiciacum Dialogues: Plotinian or pro-Nicene?”
12.20. Tobias Uhle: “Augustinus’ dialectische Argumentation in den Soliloquia”
12.40. Matthias Smallbrugge: “Grace and Beauty in Augustine”
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Tuesday August 7 Augustine on Christian Society
9.00. Paula Rose: “Textual Cohesion in Augustine’s De Cura pro Mortuis Gerenda”
9.20. Geoffrey Dunn: “Poverty as a Social Issue in Augustine’s Homilies”
9.40. Thomas Martin: “Augustine on miseria”
10.00. Andreas Grote: “Some Remarks on Manual Labour in Augustine’s De Opere Monachorum”
11.20. Paul Kolbert: “Augustine’s Ambivalence towards St Antony’s Legacy”
11.40. Frederick Russell: “Augustine’s Ambivalent Critique of Institutions”
12.00. Kauko Raikas: “The Concept iudex in Augustine”
12.20. Peter Burnell: “Justice in War in and before Augustine”
12.40. Virginia Burrus: “Temporality and Desire in Augustine’s City of God”
Wednesday August 8 Augustinian Hermeneutics
9.00. Daniel Kim: “The Semiotics of Ambiguous Signs: Augustine’s De Doctrina Christiana and Hermeneutics”
9.20. Ludwig Fladerer: “Why it is not Important to Know what Moses Thought: the Pagan Background for the Predominance of Faith (fides) in Augustine’s Hermeutics”
9.40. Frederick Van Fleteren: “Augustine and the Corpus Spirituale”
10.00. Bernard Bruning: “Augustine on idipsum, based on Psalm 2”
11.20. Joanne McWilliam: “A Comparison of Augustine’s First and Second Homilies on Psalms 19 and 25”
11.40. Paul Burns: “Hilary and Augustine on the Psalms: a Comparison”
12.00. John Paul Hoskins: “Acts 4.32 in Augustine’s Ecclesiology”
12.20. Benedict Guevin: “Romans 9.4: A Hermeneutical Key to St Augustine’s Ennarationes in Psalmos”
12.40. Francesca Cocchini: “Note sulla Inchoata Expositio ad Epistulam ad Romanos di Agostino”
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18 East School Thursday August 9 Creation and Re-creation in Augustine
9.00. Michael Tkacz: “Augustine on the Cosmogonical Fallacy”
9.20. Susan Blackburn: “The Figure of Adam in Augustine’s Sermons”
9.40.. Ludwig Fladerer: “The Importance of Metonymy in Augustine’s Creation Account”
10.00. Naoki Kamimura: “Augustine’s Scriptural Exegesis in De Genesi ad Litteram Imperfectus Liber
11.20. Joseph Lienhard: “Augustine, Quaestiones in Heptateuchum: Theological Aspects”
11.40. Dorothea Weber: “Augustine’s Locutiones in Heptateuchum: Some Remarks”
12.00. Joshua Davies: “Absence made Visible: Signs of the Fall in Augustine”
12.20. Joanne Mc William: “Augustine’s Christ of 392
12.40. Dominic Keech: “Augustine on Incarnation and Sanctification: an Affair of the Heart”
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Friday August 10 Augustine on the Practical Life
9.00. Jane Merdinger: “In Good Company: Conversations and Peregrinations of Augustine with his Closest Friends”
9.20. Siver Dagemark: “Medical Art: its Limitation and Verification in Augustine”
9.40. Christine McCann: “Physician of the Soul: Augustine of Hippo and Spiritual Mentoring”
10.00. Ryan Topping: “Christ as Disciplina Dei in Augustine’s Early Thought”
11.20. Enrique Eguiarte: “Augustine and the poculum oblivionis”
11.40. Timo Nisula: “Continuities and Discrepancies in Augustine’s View on Concupiscence and Baptism (410-430)”
12.00. Joanne Snow-Smith: “St Augustine Concerning Human Sexuality: Birth of a New Christian Morality”
12.20. Aristotle Papanikolaou: “Honest to God: Confession and Desire in Augustine and the Ascetical Tradition”
12.40. David Meconi: “Augustine on Becoming Gods by Becoming God’s”
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Tuesday August 7 Augustine’s God
9.00. Anthony Meredith: “Divine Incomprehensibility in Gregory of Nyssa and Augustine”
9.20. Paul van Geest: “Augustine’s Thoughts on how God may be Represented”
9.40. Wendy Helleman: “Christ the Wisdom of God: the Logic of Attribution in Augustine’s De Trinitate 5-7”
10.00. Dominique Bertrand: “Argumentatives exégétiques et théologiques dans les livres 6-7 du De Trinitate”
11.20. Walter Hannam: “The Place and Purpose of Book VIII of Augustine’s De Trinitate”
11.40. Michael Carreker: “Divine Simplicity in the De Trinitate of St Augustine”
12.00. Kazuhiko Demura: “The Heart and to Reach the Word: Augustine, De Trinitate 15.11.20)
12.20. Ronald Rombs: “The Holy Spirit as Vinculum Pacis: Eph 4.3 in Augustine’s Trinitarian and Anthropological Theologies”
12.40. Luigi Gioia: “Christology, Soteriology and Knowledge of God in Augustine’s De Trinitate”
Wednesday August 8 Pelagian Controversy
9.00. Vittorino Grossi: “Il Formarsi del Vocabulario Agostiniano della Grazia durante la Polemica Pelagiana”
9.20. Mickael Ribreau: “Quos vulgo moriones vocant (Contra Julianum III.4.10): le traitement des ‘moriones’ (débiles) dans les oeuvres antipélagiennes de S. Augustin”
9.40. Bengt Alexanderson: “Le Commentaire sur les Psaumes: le Texte de Julien d’Eclane” (in French)
10.00. Marianne Djuth: “Rhetorical Strategy and Polemical Controversy: Augustine versus Julian of Eclanum on the Love of Wisdom”
11.20. Gösta Hallonsten: “Merit in the Pelagian Controversy”
11.40. Earl Lavender: “Pelagius on Spiritual Formation: Over-Optimistic Anthropology or Hopeful Eschatology?”
12.00. Laurence Dalmon: “La correspondance anti-pelagienne de l’Afrique avec Rome (416- 418): presentation d’un dossier de l’Épistolaire Augustinien”
12.20. Raùl Villegas: “Lucidus on Predestination: The Damnation of Augustine’s Predestination in the Synods of Arles (473) and Lyons (474)”
12.40. Theresa Hainthaler: “Faustus of Riez and his Christology”
20 South School Thursday August 9 Augustine’s Pastorate
9.00. Daniel Jones: “Relating Christus Sacerdos and Christus Mediator in Augustine’s Christology by Means of Rhetorical Function: Complementarity v. Competition”
9.20. Dorothee Elm van de Osten: “Perpetual Felicity: Augustine’s Sermons of Female Martyrdom (sermons 280-282)”
9.40. Erika Hermanowicz: “Augustine and the Enforcement of Heresy Laws on African Estates”
10.00. Hildegund Mueller: “Movements of a Putrefying Corpse: Augustine’s Use of ‘Arians’ in his Treatises on John’s Gospel”
11.20. Stan Rosenberg: “Orality, Textuality and Pedagogy: Interpreting Theological Anthropology in Augustine’s Sermons”
11.40. Michael Margoni-Koegler: “St Augustine’s Lectionary: Observations from the Perspective of Contemporary History”
12.00. Michael Cameron: “A Little Time until Easter: Another Look at Augustine’s Epistle 21 to Valerius”
12.20. Jochen Rexer: “Die Österthologie des Augustinus: zum Verstandnis einer doppelten Exegese”
12.40. Frank Curry: “Love of God and Love for Neighbour in Augustine, De Doctrina Christiana I” ------Friday August 10 Augustine and Heresy
9.00. Carlos Buenecasa: “Augustine on Donatism: Converting a Schism into a Heresy”
9.20. William Rusch: “Augustine, the Collatio at Carthage and the Unity of the Church”
9.40. Alicia Soler Merenciano: “Nuevas Perspectivas sobre Agustin y el Priscillianismo”
10.00. George Bevan: “Augustine and the Western Dimension of the Nestorian Controversy”
Augustine’s Posterity
11.20. Elizabeth Hastings: “Augustine of Hippo and William of Saint-Thierry on the Relation between the Holy Spirit’s Personal Identity (Romans 5.5) and his Sovereign Freedom ad extra”
11.40. Alfred Schindler: “Late Mediaeval and Early Modern Commentaries on Augustine’s De Civitate Dei”
12.00. William Rankin: “’Mo fyguratif spechis than gramerians moun gesse’: Wycliffite Transformations of Augustine’s Semiotics”
12.20. Claudio Pierantoni: “Il verbum mentis formabile di S. Agostino (De Trin. XV.15.25) e la gnoseologia di Rosmini”
12.40. Charles Robertson: “Augustinian Ecclesiology and Vatican II: a Broadening Conception of the Church” 21
ROOM 8
Tuesday August 7 Liturgy
9.00. Erica Hunter: “Moses bar Kephra’s Commentary on the Traditions of Epiphany”
9.20. Alistair Stewart-Sykes: “Decoding the Church Order Literature”
9.40. Charles Bobertz: “Ritual Eucharist within Narrative: A Comparison of Didache 9-10 with Mark 6.31-44 and 8.1-9.
10.00. Taras Khomych: “The Motif of gathering in the Eucharistic Passages of the Didache Reconsidered”
11.20. Peter Lee: “Eucharist and Reservation in the early Centuries”
11.40. Stephen Morris: “Blood and Holy Communion: Late Byzantine Use of Luke 8”
12.00. Everett Ferguson: “Baptism in the Messalian Controversy”
12.20. Alistair Stewart-Sykes: “The pseudo-Hippolytean Homily on the Theophany and the Development of Syrian Baptismal Rituals”
12.40. Mikhail Zheltov: “Cosmological Narratives in the Egyptian Anaphoras”
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Wednesday August 8 Aspects of Christian Life
9.00. Hennie Stander: “The Church Fathers on Pity”
9.20. Peter Gemeinhardt: “Holiness and Education in Late Antique Hagiography”
9.40. Oliver Nicholson: “What Makes a Voluntary Martyr?”
10.00. Simon Mimouni: “Les Imposteurs dans les communautes chrétiennes des Ier-IIe siècles”
11.20. Brian Matz: “The Greek Fathers on Alleviating Economic Injustice: Presentation of an Ongoing Research Project”
11.40. Jennifer Henery: “Transgender in Early Christian Literature”
12.00. Nathan Howard: “The Role of Familial Askêsis”
12.20. Arthur Lee: “Mapping Porneia”
12.40. Columba Stewart: “Asceticism, Philosophy and the Question of Monastic Origins”
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Room 8 Thursday August 9 Asceticism
9.00. Irene Kukota: “Christ’s Descent into Hades and Ascetic Practices of the Early Church”
9.20. Julia Konstantinovsky: “The Body, Other-worldliness and Perfect Knowledge in Fourth- Century Monasticism”
9.40. Karen Torjesen: “Enscripturation of Ascetic Theology”
10.00. Sigrid Mratschek: “Melania und der unbekannte Statthalter”
11.20. Tamila Mgaloblishvili: “Peter the Iberian and the Beginning of Georgian Monasticism in the Holy Land”
11.40. Tina Tseradze: “Georgian Celliotic Collections”
12.00. Daniel Callam: “Episcopal Influence on the Monastic Movement in Fourth-Century Italy”
12.20. Paula Dias: “The Libellus de Regulariis Observantiis (Bib. Vat. Reginensis lat. 17): New Perspectives about the Permanence of the Regula Mixta System after the Carolingian Age”
12.40. Benedicta Ward: “The Reception of the Desert Fathers in the West in the Eleventh Century”
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9.00. Teresa Viviani: “Dogmatic Approaches to Coptic Architecture (400-700)”
9.20. Stig Frøyshov: “The Practice of Prayer in Egyptian Desert Monasticism: Some New Connections”
9.40. Sister Demiana: “The Action of the Holy Spirit in Repentance in the First Letter of St Antony”
10.00. Erik Kolb: “Eunuchs and Virgins at the White Monastery: Exegesis and Ascetic Formation in Shenoute’s ‘Abraham our Father’”
11.20. Caroline Schroeder: “Women in Anchoritic and semi-Eremitic Egyptian Monasticism”
11.40. Lillian Larsen: “Re-Reading the Apophthegmata Patrum”
12.00. Graham Gould: “The Collection of Apophthegmata Patrum in Palladii Lausiaca 20 (PL 74.377-82)”
12.20. William Harmless: “Desert Silence: why Christology is Missing from the Apopthegmata Patrum”
12.40. Per Ronnegard: “The Use of Scripture in the Apohthegmata Patrum”
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Tuesday August 7 Syriac Studies
9.00. Thomas Kremer: “Beobachtungen zur Zöologie in syrischen Genesis-Commentarien”
9.20. Renato Roux: “Biblical Exegesis in the Liber Graduum”
9.40. Michael Penn: “Piety and the Pumice Stone: Erasure in Syriac Manuscripts”
10.00. Hannah Hunt: “Sexuality and Penitence in Syriac Commentaries on Luke’s Sinful Woman”
11.20. Satoshi Toda: “The Syriac Version of Eusebius’ Ecclesiastical History Revisited””
11.40. Thomas Koonammakkal: “Ephrem’s Hymns on the Nativity: Augustus and Jesus”
12.00. Phil Botha: “A Comparison between the Comments on Daniel in Ephrem’s Commentary on the Diatessaron and the Syriac Commentary on Daniel”
12.20 Paul Russell: “St Ephraem the Syrian and the Teaching of Philosophy”
12.40. Andreas Westergren: “Symbols of Church in Syriac Hagiography” ------
Wednesday August 8 Saints’ Lives and Afterlives
9.00. Philip Blaudeau: “Le documentum symmachien relatif à Polychronius de Jérusalem: enseignements géo-ecclésiastiques d’un faux romain
9.20. Jerónimo Leal: “Nota Martirologica”
9.40. Carol Downer: “The Nature of the Resurrection Scenes in M581: The Martyrdom of St Pteleme and other Early Christian Hagiographic Texts”
10.00. Candida Moss: “Civilised Beasts and Beastly Men: Redemptive Hegemony in the Acts of the Martyrs “
11.20. Christine Shepardson: “Burying Babylas: Meletius of Antioch and the Spatial Politics of Religious Controversy”
11.40. David Riggs: “Divine Patronage, Apologetic Performance and Church Life in De Miraculis Sancti Stephani”
12.00. Marc Doucet: “Why do we Celebrate the Feast of Benedict on 21st March and 11th July?”
12.20. Aho Shemunkasho: “Edition and Translation of the Hagiography of St Aho the Foreigner”
12.40. Kristi Upson-Saia: “Gender Performance and Cross-Dressing in Early Christian Saints’ Lives”
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Room 7 Thursday August 9 Icons and Artefacts
9.00. Petr Balcarek: “Some Remarks on the Response to Iconoclasm in the Old Slavonic Vita Constantini”
9.20. Vladmimir Baranov: “The Doctrine of the con-Eucharist for the Byzantine Iconoclasts”
9.40. Philippa Grant: “Zodiac Mosaics in Ancient Galilean Synagogues”
10.00. Lee Jefferson: “The Late Antique Understanding of Superstition and the Significance of the Image of Christ the Miracle Worker in Early Christian Catacombs and Sarcophagi”
11.20. Robert Wright: “Iconographic Significance of the Apse Mosaics, San Vitale, Ravenna”
11.40. James Francis: “Biblical not Scriptural: Perspectives on Early Christian Art from Contemporary Classical Scholarship”
12.00. Yuliyan Velikov: “Claudius of Turin and the Veneration of Images after the Libri Carolini”
12.20. Anne Karahan: “The Issue of Perichorêsis in a Christological as well as Trinitarian Sense in Holy Byzantine Iconography and Aesthetics”
12.40. Drew Maxwell: “Weapons of Mass Construction: the Mapharion of Mary and its Defence of Constantinople”
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Friday August 10 Early Byzantine Theology
9.00. Ivar Maksutov: “Syriac (Ephrem) and Greek (Chrysostom) Aspects of ‘Power’ as an Image of God”
9.20. Sarah Wear: “Zacharias Scholasticus’ Doctrine of the Trinity in the Ammonius”
9.40. Serhiy Hovorun: “Dyenergism versus Monenergism”
10.00. George Berthold: “Aspects of the Will in Maximus the Confessor”
11.20. Thomas Cattoi: “The Symphonic Church: Chalcedonian Themes in Maximus the Confessor’s Liturgical Theology”
11.40. Ladislav Chvatal: “Maxime le Confesseur et la tradition philosophique: à propos d’une édition de la kinêsis”
12.00. Adrian Guiu: “Philosophical Culture in St Maximus Confessor: a Discussion of Philosophical Categories in Ambigua 77, 10, 15, 42”
12.20. Alexey Konstyanovsky: “St Maximus the Confessor on the Revelation Found in Scripture”
12.40. Kosta Milkov: “The Role of Renunciation in Maximus the Confessor” 25
ROOM 13
Tuesday August 7 Early to Middle Byzantine Theology
9.00. Patrik Hagman: “Asceticism and Society in St Isaac of Nineveh”
9.20. Hendrik Johnsèn: “John Climacus and the Origin of Literary Monastic Instruction”
9.40. Deitmar Winkler: “A Christological Treatise of Michael Halpane of Nisibis (6th century)”
10.00. Brenda Fairaday: “The Sermons on the Resurrection by Romanos the Melodist: his Usage of Extra-Biblical Sources, Prosody and Dramatic Style”
11.20. Emmanuel Papoutsakis: Romanos the Melodist and the Syriac Literary Tradition”
11.40. Anna Zhyrkov: “Theological Consequences of John Damascene’s Concept of Hypostasis”
12.00. Niki Tsironi: “Orality in Middle Byzantine Homilies”
12.20. Dirk Krausmüller: “Metaphor and Reality in Patriarch Methodius”
12.40. Theodoros Alexopoulos: “Die Argumentation der spätbyzantinischen Theologie fur das Filioque in der Person von Konstantinos Melitionitis. Eine Vergleichende Untersuchung in Bezug auf Photios von Konstantinopel”
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Wednesday August 8 Later Byzantine Theology
9.00. Oleg Uliyanov: “The Influence of the Monasticism of Holy Mount Athos on the Liturgical Reform Movement of Late Byzantine Times”
9.20. Ioannis Bekos: “St Symeon the New Theologian on ‘Voluntary Death’: Comments on Transplantation Ethics”
9.40. Ketevan Bezarashvili: “Michael Psellos – the Interpreter of the Style of Gregory the Theologian and the New Aspects of the Concepts of Rhetoric”
11.40. Demitrios Bathrellos: “The Dogmatic Theology of St Symeon of Thessalonica”
12.00. Job Getcha: “Christology and Pneumatology in the Commentary of Symeon of Thessalonica on Baptisms”
12.20. Kallistos Ware: “Prayer according to St Symeon of Thessalonica (d. 1429)”
12.40. Marios Benisis: “St Mark of Ephesus: His Significant Presence in the Council of Florence and the New Perspectives in Interreligious Dialogue”
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Room 13 Thursday August 9 Gregory Palamas
9.00. Goran Sekulovski: “The Social Aspects of Hesychasm (14th century)”
9.20. Marcus Plested: “St Gregory Palamas on Wisdom”
9.40. Nicholas Bamford: “Gregory Palamas’ Existential Approach to Personhood: Existential and Ontological Implications”
10.00. Rebecca White: “The Mystery of the Cross in the Theology of Gregory Palamas”
Syriac Theologians
11.20: Thomas Thumpeparampil: “First Adam and Second Adam in the Soteriological Homilies of Mar Narsai”
11.40. Kristian Heal: “The Use of Mirror Imagery in Narsai (d. 502)”
12.00. Jean-Nicole Saint-Laurent: “Identity Construction in the Letters of Jacob Baradaeus”
12.20. Karl Pingerra: “Incarnation and Eucharist according to Philoxenus of Mabbug”
12.40. Iuliana Viezure: “Philoxenus of Mabbug and the Controversies over the ‘Theopaschite Trisagion”
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The British Fathers
9.20. Diarmuid Scully: “Gildas’ De Excidio Britanniae in its Patristic Context”
9.40: Jennifer O’Reilly: “The One Mediator: Bede and Patristic Exegesis on 1Timothy 2.5”
10.00: Scott DeGregorio: “The Venerable Bede as a Father of the Church”
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ROOM 12 Tuesday August 7 Reception of the Fathers
9.00. Basil Lourié: “Michel Psellos, Jean Italos et la Reception de l’héritage maximien a l’époque des Comnènes”
9.20. Peter Petkoff: “Patristic Authority in the Twelfth Century Caonical Collections in Rome and Constantinople”
9.40. Nicolas Kazarian: “The Use of the Fathers in the Theology of Jeremias II (1536-1595) about Justification”
10.00. Ashley Hall: “Philipp Melanchthon’s Polemical Use of the Cappadocian Fathers”
11.20. Paul Lim: “Will the Real Irenaeus and Cyril Please Rise? Patristic Polemics Revived in the Socinian Debates in mid-17th Century England”
11.40. Sara Brooks: “English and Dutch Polemical Use of Patristics and the Question of a via media in Reformed Protestantism, c. 1580-1615”
12.00. Manuela Gheorge: “A Patristic Figure in Romanian Literature: Neagoe Basarab and his Teachings to his Son Teodosie”
12.20. Lela Khoperia: “One Georgian Witness and the Literary Heritage of John Xiphilinus”
12.40. Bogdan Yankovvy: “Patristic Thought in Ukrainian Literature: History, Persons and Tendencies (X-XX Centuries)” ------Wednesday August 8 Patristic Thought Renewed
9.00. Edward Siecienski: “Avoiding the Sin of Ham: Dealing with the Errors of the Fathers”
9.20. Timothy McConnell: “The Presbyterian Church’s Liturgical Use of Patristic Metaphors for the Trinity”
9.40. Michael Ghattas: “Die Beziehung zwischen der Koptische-Orthodoxen und der Äthiopisch- Orthodoxen Kirche von 1959 bis zur Gegenwart”
10.00. Alexander Musin: “Works and days of Archbishop Basil (Krivocheine, 1900-1985): New Approaches to his Theological Thoughts in the Light of New Biographical Data”
11.20. George Kanakis: “Hieromonk Vessarion (1908-1991): A Case of Imperishability or Natural Mummification?”
11.40. Sophie Deicha: “Impulsion donnée par l’archévêque Georges Wagner (1930-1993): a l’étude de la patristique Orthodoxe”
12.00. Salvatore Costanza: “Fonti Patristiche sulla Sicilia nella valutazione degli studiosi contemporanei”
12.20. Jean Johnson: “Faith of our Fathers? Teaching East African Sixth Formers about their Early African Christian Heritage”
12.40. Wendy Helleman: “Teaching Patristics for Islamic Students in Nigeria” 28
Room 12 Thursday August 9 Manichaeism
9.00. Agathe Roman: “Rhétorique et polémique dans le Contra Manichaeos de Titus de Bostra”
9.20. Thomas Schmidt: “Pour une concordance lemmatique de Titus de Bostra”
9.40. Paul-Hubert Poirier: “Pour une nouvelle edition du Contra Manichaeos de Titus de Bostra”
10.00 Maxine West: “Jesus Speaks to/in us: a Connection of Theme between Serapion of Thmuis’ Against the Manichees and Sacramentary”
Armenian Christianity
11.20. Robert Thomson: “An Early Armenian Commentary on Joshua/Judges”
11.40. Michael Papazian: Stephanos of Stwnik’s Commentary on the Gospels: Biblical Exegesis in Eighth-Century Armenia”
12.00. Oleh Shchuryk: “The Armenian Position on Christology in the Context of the Correspondence between Acacius of Melitene, Proclus of Constantinople and Catholicos Sahak”
12.20. Anahit Avagyan: “Die Armenische Athanasius-Überlieferung”
12.40. Vahan Hovhanessian: “A Glance at St Ephrem’s Commentary on the Epistles of Paul in the Armenian Translation””
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