Thurs day May 26 th Fri day May 27 th Sat urday My 28 th 7:30 –9:00 am: Continental 7:30 –9:00 am: Continental (Weds May 25 th , 2-5 pm and Thurs Breakfast Breakfast May 26 th , 9–11 am : Me eting of the 8:00-8:45am: Graduate Student Board of Directors ) Caucus Meeting 10:00 –5:00: Exhibits Open 9:00 –10:40 am 9:00 –10:40 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 11:00 am –12:00 Noon 11:00 Am –12:00 Noon Workshops for Digital Humanities Session 5: NAPS Presidential Session 11: Plenary Lecture: and ReMeDHe Address Carol Harrison [pre-registration required; for Susanna Elm more details, go to: Sounding Silence: http://patristics.org/annual- New Romans: Music And The Ineffable In The meeting/registration -and - Salvian of Marseilles and the Early Church accommodations/ ] Governance of God 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 –3:1 0 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 -3:3 0 pm 3:10 –3:30 pm 3:10 -3:30 pm Afternoon Coffee Break Afternoon Coffee Break Afternoon Coffee Break 3:30 –5:1 0 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 Columba Stewart Reading Practices in Late Antique Preserving Words and Worlds Egypt 8:30 –10:30 pm : Dessert Reception Session 1: THURSDAY MAY 26 th , 1:30 –3:10 – Panels 1A -1L 1A Geography and the Historiography of Christian 1F Athanasius Thought in Late Antiquity (A/V) • Nathaniel Kidd, In Search of an Athanasian • Cavan Concannon, Islands in the Corrupting Sea: Apocalyptic Mapping Second-Century Christianity • Ellen Muehlberger, Reading and Rhetoric: A • James Walters, “Semitic” Christianity: Geography, Reinterpretation of the Letter to Marcellinus Language, and the Marginalization of Christian • Shaun Retallick, “Moved by one spirit”: Divine Thought Connaturality as a Basis for Conciliar Unity in • Young Kim, Cyprus and Late Ancient Christianity Athanasius' Epistula ad Epictetum 1 • Matthew Pereira, Transmission and Tradition at the Borderlands: John Maxentius and the Scythian Monks 1B of Stridon 1G Monastic Cultures (A/V) • Christine McCann, The Role of the Senses in • Lillian Larsen Monikers of Monastic Education Christian Study & Devotion: Evidence from St. • Carolyn Schneider, From to Elisha: Athanasius's Jerome Fighting Spirit Doubled in Shenoute • Pablo Molina, Jerome's Role in the Transmission of • Daniel Lemeni, A “Miraculous Economy”: The Rural the Correspondence between Seneca and Paul Patronage of Shenoute of Atripe • Thomas Scheck, Plagiarism of Origen as Supreme • Paul Pasquesi Garments of Light, Robes of Darkness: Praise: Jerome's Preface to Book 2 of his Ethics, Vision, and the Reception of the Two Ways Commentary on ” Tradition in the Macarian Homilies • Thomas Dilbeck, Sol et spiritus : Solar Syncretism in Jerome's Commentary to Ecclesiastes 1.6 ? 1C Changing Landscapes in Early Christian Studies: 1H Persecutions of Christians after Constantine: Polemic Papers in Honor of James E. Goehring, I and Rhetorical Discourse, I • Philip Rousseau, The City a Desert • Eric Fournier, The Rhetoric of post-Constantinian • Rebecca Krawiec, Writing Egyptian Monasticism: Persecutions: An Introduction Texts and Memory • Nathaniel Morehouse, Begrudging the Honor: Julian • Caroline Schroeder, The Dark Side of Digitization: and Christian Martyrdom Ideology and Power in the Technological • Ployd, For Their Own Good: Augustine and the Utopianism of the “Archive” Rhetoric of Beneficial Persecution • Janet Timbie, Monastic Sources from Middle Egypt: • Rebecca Stephens Falcasantos, The City a Palimpsest: the Life of Phif as W itness to an Eremitic - Cenobitic Fifth -Century Historiography and the Rewriting of Transition Arian Violence 1D Heresiological interactions: social and political 1K Models of Martyrdom and Suffering contexts in late antiquity (A/V) • Heather Barkman, Familial I magery and Gender in • Jennifer Barry, A Call to Arms: Heresiology and North African Texts Gender Violence • Wilhite, Tertullian on the Afterlife: Only • David Maldonado Rivera, Episcopal Anxiety and are in Heaven and Other Misunderstandings Heresiological Therapy in the Letters of Synesius of • J. David Woodington, Unparalleled Piety: Martyrdom Cyrene and Christian Supremacy in Origen's Contra Celsum • Richard Flower, Heresiology as church politics: • Travis Ables, The Crown of Justice: The Death of the Augustine and his rivals in the early fifth century Martyr and the Death of Christ in Augustine's • Robin Whelan, Histories of the Arians: re -enacting Theology of Redemption the Arian Controversy in Vandal Africa 1E Problems in ancient biography: the construction of 1L profession al identity in late antiquity I • Paul Blowers, Gregory Nazianzen as Tragedian and • Elizabeth DePalma Digeser, The Other in Exponent of the Tragic Christian Self Fragments: Arguments with Silence • Bradley Storin, I am the Story: A Consideration of • Ilaria Ramelli, The Construction of the Professional Precedents for Gregory of Nazianzus's Narrative Identity of Origen of Alexandria and the Question of Autobiography Which Origen • Jared Bryant, Creating a Cosmology: Gregory of • Aaron Johnson, Unprofessional Identities in Nazianzus's Implementation of Origen Porphyry's Biographies of Philosophers • Ryan Clevenger, Oikeiosis pros theon and phantasia in Gregory of Nazianzus

Session 2 : THURSDAY MAY 26 th , 3:30 –5:10 – Panels 2A -2L 2A Corpus Dionysiacum 2F Persecutions of Christians after Constantine: Polemic • J. Gregory Given, From the Gospel of Thomas to and Rhetorical Discourse, II Pseudo-Dionysius: The Scholarly Invention of an • Jason Osequeda, The Name of Ill-Omen: Basiliscus "Orthodox" Edessene Mystical Tradition and the Church in Constantinople • Erman Goren, Divine Names as "Tokens and Traces" of • Tina Shepardson, (Dis)Locating Heresy: John of Being in the Corpus Dionysiacum Ephesus and Religious Persecution in Late • Vladimir Kharlamov A Reason Behind Disguised Antiquity Identity in the Corpus Dionysiacum • Ryan Strickler, Persecuted Persecutors? Christian • Craig Tichelkamp, Hymning the God Beyond Being: Identity During Crises of the Seventh Century Three Textual Apertures in the Corpus Dionysiacum • Wendy Mayer, Respondent 2B Syrian Traditions (A/V) 2G The O rigins of a Christian Scripture • Emanuel Fiano, The Contingencies of Intellectual • Prahlow, The Citation Question: Transmission: Eustathius of Antioch as A Conveyor of Methodological Principles for Determining Sources Syriac Memes in Early Christian Writings • Jacob Lollar, Ephesus, the Second Sister of Edessa: The • Stephen Cooper, The Pastoral Epistles and the Syriac History of John the Son of Zebedee and the Sanctification of the Pauline Epistles in the Second Invention and Formation of Syriac-Christian Tradition Century • Kyle Smith, The Islamic State, Syriac Historiography, • Jason BeDuhn, Marcion and the Origins of a and a Sasanian Martyrs' Shrine in Abbasid Iraq Christian Scripture • Najib Awad, “Supposedly Encountered an Arian Monk”: • David Jorgensen, Matthew's Gospel as Valentinian Where Did Muhammad Derive his Ideas from, Scripture according to 's De Haeresibus , Chapters 100/101? 2C Changing Landscapes in Early Christian Studies: Papers 2H The Process of Salvation in Honor of James E. Goehring, II (A/V) • W. Trigg, Being and Becoming God • David Brakke, The Layered Self: Pseudonymity and • J. Hollerich, The World Spirit on Praise in The Three Steles of Seth and Other Gnostic Horseback? Eusebius of Caesarea on History as Works Revelation • Andrew Crislip, Loss, Affect, and Power in Pachomian • Robin Darling Young, Oikonomia and Salvation Literature Without the Church in the Works of Evagrius of • Kevin Uhalde, Repentance before Christ: Roots of Pontus Christian Penance and Asceticism • J. Patout Burns, Structural Principles of the • Elizabeth Clark, The History of Religion Studies at Mary Augustinian Economy of Salvation Washington College 2D Verse Exegesis in Syriac and Greek 2K Martyrdom, Sacrifice, and the Problem of Christian • Jeffrey Wickes, Poetry and Performance in Late Identity Ancient Northern Mesopotamia • Shawn Wilhite, Didache, Martyrdom, and Christian • Vince Bantu, Ephrem and Nicene Terminology: Trends Identity: The Shape of Identity as it intersects with Across Syriac Literary Genres Ethics and Persecution • E. Michelle Weedman, 's Re-exegesis • Ryan Bowley, 's Sacrifice for of the Biblical Stories of Scandalous Women Erin Others in Christological Context Walsh, Healing without Boundaries: Ephrem and • Jordan Smith, “Soldiers of Christ, Arise”: The Romanos Interpreting the Narrative of the Rhetoric of Martyrdom as Human (Self) Sacrifice in Hemorrhaging Woman the 3rd Century C.E. • Jonathan Wilcoxson, The cuisine of sacrifice and early Christian martyrdom 2E Problems in ancient biography: the construction of 2L Ecclesial Diversity and Convergence in Migration professional identity in late antiquity II (A/V) Period Late Antiquity: Rethinking the Narratives • Arthur Urbano, Their Garb, Our Truth: Dress and the • Sara Parvis, Novatians, Goths, Antiochenes and the Demarcation of Intellectual Status in Early Christian Councils of Constantinople 381-383 Literature and Art • Joshua Bruce, Donatists and Vandals: Bitter • Bradley Storin, ‘AutoHagioBiography’ = The Enemies or Bedfellows? AutoHagioBiography of Gregory of Nazianzus • Paul Parvis, The Vandal Commentary on and • Heidi Marx-Wolf, Eunapius' Sosipatra: Yet another lady the Vitality of “Barbarian” Arianism vanishes? • Todd Krulak, Philosophical Succession and the Lives of Proclus

Session 4: FRIDAY MAY 27 th , 9:00 –10:40 am – Panels 4A -4L 4A Pre -Dissertation Research Workshop I (A/V) 4F Nature before and after the Fall, I • Awet Andemicael, The Glory of God and the • Joshua Kinlaw, Nature in 1 Clement Transformation of Human Societies: ' • Chris Frilingos, Same as it ever was: The stopping and Legacy for Political Theology restarting of nature in the Proto-gospel of James • Robert Edwards, From the Person to the Text of • Daniel Lloyd, Providence and Obedience: God, Man, Paul: Genres of Reception and the Rise of the and the World in Novatian's Theology Pauline Commentary • Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe, Process and punishment: • Monica Keith, The Importance of the Old Testament on the senescence of the world in Irenaeus of Lyons' Adversus Haereses • Hans Moscicke, The Fall of Angels in Eusebius's Demo nstratio Evangelica : His use of Isa. 10:13, Origen, and the Watchers Tradition 4B Translations in Early Christianity (A/V) 4G The Roots of Hagiography • Kalvesmaki, Using the Syriac New Testament to • Nathan Lunsford, “That we in turn might imitate him”: Go beyond the Explicitation Hypothesis Imitation and Nobility in Mart. • Jonathan Loopstra, “Interpreting the ‘Interpreter' • Zachary Yuzwa, Genre and the reader in early Latin without Words, Dot by Dot” hagiographical literature • Columba Stewart, The Syriac versions of Evagrius' • Todd French, Retributive Justice and The : A Gnostikos and their relevance for the study of Diachronic Study of Hagiographical Compilations translation in Late Antiquity • Shota Matitashvili, Holy Virgins in The Conversion of • Adriana Farenga, On matter and corporeality: Kartli : St. Nino and Christian Asceticism Eriugena's translation of 's De hominis opificio 4C Landscapes: Context and Representation, I 4H Tradition and Power in The Latin West • Morwenna Ludlow, Ascetic landscapes and • Alden Bass, 's African Offspring: John 8 aesthetic landscapes between Catholics and Donatists • Scot Douglass, Rhetoric, Repentance, Presence and • Glen Thompson, Quam domino fuerant devote : De Place in Plato and Gregory of Nyssa Rossi, Duchesne, and the Epitaphium Liberii • Maria Dasios, “See that holy acre:” Landscape and • Edward Siecienski, The Sardican Privilege and the “Christian discourse” in Gregory of Nyssa's First Problem of the Primacy homily on the Forty [Martyrs] of Sebaste • Michael Motia, Gregory of Nyssa's Shifting Scenes of Instruction 4D Inside Out, Outside In: Re -Thinking Augustine On 4K Violence and the Sacred Interiority (A/V) • Jennifer Otto, “How can this being be good?”: • Anthony Dupont, Augustine's understanding of Origen's Defense of a violent God 'Cor' as the Centre of the Human Person • Bradley Daugherty, The Killing Curse: Optatus of • Matthew W. Knotts, Self-Transcendence in Milevis and the Violence of Clerical Penance Augustine's Tractates on the Gospel of John • Zachary Smith, Speech, Silence, and Violence: • Robert E. McFadden, How to train a Ciceronian Healing and Harm in the Egyptian Desert Christian: Friendship and Spiritual Exercises in St. Augustine's Cassiciacum Dialogues • Sean Hannan, Belatedness to Thought as an Opening for Grace in De Dono Perseverantiae 4E Religion and Medicine, Disability, and Health in Late 4L Organizing the Scriptures Antiquity, I • Lewis Ayres, Metaphysi cs as a Rule of Faith • Anna Rebecca Solevåg, Judas' Deserving Disability • Michale Champion, Ascetic Organization of Scripture • Geoffrey Smith, Metaphor and Meaning in in the Writings of Dorotheos of Gaza Tertullian's Scorpiace • H. Clifton Ward, "I Gave You Milk, Not Solid Food": • Ashley Edewaard, The Faculties of Foods: Clement Organizing Scripture in of Alexandria and Hippocrates' On Affections • Mathew Crawford, Did Augustine use Eusebius's • Sarah Moravsik, Nutrition and Angelic Gospel Canons Intervention in Medical Treatment: Origen's Contra Celsum 8:24 -32 and Philocalia 12

Session 6: FRIDAY MAY 27 th , 1:30 -3:10 pm – Panels 6A -6L 6A Pre -Dissertation Research Workshop, II 6F Nature before and after the Fall, II • Corine Boersma, The Sacramental Basis of Augustine's • Catherine Chin, Imagine Living Gold: Late Ancient Semiotic Theory Geologies of Salvation • Emily Chesley, Origin of Sin and Image of Christ: Augustine's • Mark Ellingsen, Ancient African Insights About Portrait of Eve in De Civitate Dei Creation and Nature Which Relate to Modern Physics: • John Lowe, Drinking Poison with Honey: The Shift of Fourth- Augustine and Dionysius of Alexandra Century Christian Attitudes toward Pagan Literature in Basil • Jane Ellingwood, Augustine's Ontological Concept of of Caesarea “Dynamic Abiding”: The Gift and Value of Continued • John Kern, Minds Mingling Ousiodos or Enhypostatic Creaturely Existence and Agency for All Creatures Energeia ? A Non -Palamite Reading of Gregory Nazianzen on • Eric Meyer, Political Ecology in 's the Spirit's Indwelling Homilies on the Hexaemeron 6B Object, Text, and Image: Making Meaning (A/V) 6G Religi ous Economics in Late Antiquity • Robin Jensen, Sacred Landmarks in Early Christian • Michael Flexsenhar III, Demonic Metallurgists and Iconography Daughters of Men: Economy and Class in Tertullian's • Bonnie Kutbay, Eucharistic Liturgy and Iconography in the De Cultu Feminarum Sacrifice of and Christ Preaching on the Berlin Pyxis • Jaclyn Maxwell, Virtue and Socio-Economic Standing in • Laura Nasrallah, Seeing God? Mosaics, Optics, and Theology Gregory of Nyssa's Homilies on the Beatitudes in Late Antiquity • Michele Salzman, The Religious Economics of Crisis: • Dennis Trout, The Image Rises Golden: Figures and Words at The Papal Use of Liturgical Vessels as Symbolic Capital S. Agnese fuori le mura (Rome) in Fifth Century Rome • Karen Carducci, Gems, Glass, and Morals according to ( Etym . 16.6 -16) 6C Lands capes: Context and Representation, II (A/V) 6H Western Theologians • Joona Salminen, Clement and Alexandria: a Moral Map • Charles Meeks, The Sacramental Hermeneutic of Hilary • Thomas Hunt, Plus quam ciuilia bella : Marrou, the Algerian of Poitiers War and the excavation of the basilica at Hippo • Eric Wickman, Sustitutionary Atonement in Hilary of • Jenny Rallens, Wondering in the Fields of Memory: the Poitiers relationship between admiratio , landscapes, and memory in • Andrew Harmon, History and Exemplarity in Confessions Book X ’s Moral Theology • Mary Farag, Contested Ecclesial Landscapes in the Trial of • Brian Matz, The Place Of Isidore Of Seville In The History Of The Teaching Of Double Predestin ation

6D Afterlife Traditions in Early Christianity (A/V) 6K Paradoxes of Power and Weakness • Mark Ellison, Posthumous Spousal Reunion in Early • Michael Harris, Ignatius and Care for the Most Christian Art and Texts Vulnerable: The Widows Support the Bishop • Jeffrey Trumbower, The Use of Scriptures to Construct a • John Elmer Abad, Contesting Masculinity: A Sophistic Coherent Afterlife Scenario in "Against Plato, On the Cause of Technique in Tertullian's Apologetic Writings the Universe," often attributed to Hippolytus • Yonatan Moss, “My Strength is Made Perfect in • Rangar Cline, Soul, Body, and Afterlife in Late Roman Weakness”: Severus, “Feminist ” of Antioch Mortuary Law • Andrew Hofer, Models of Petrine and Gregorian • Janet Sidaway, The Role Of The Transfiguration Narrative In Weakness in Gregory's Book of Pastoral Rule ' View Of Life After Death 6E Religion and Medicine, Disability, and Health in Late Antiquity, 6L Gregory of Nyssa, I II • Christopher Beeley , Gregory of Nyssa's Christological • Jared Secord, The Celibate Athlete: Christian and Medical Exegesis Perspectives on Abstinence from Sex in the Second and • Beau Branson, Gregory of Nyssa's Two Solutions to the Third Centuries Logical Problem of the Trinity • Marianne Djuth, The Cure of the Body in Augustine's Early • Michel Barnes, “What Have I Become?' Gregory of Works Nyssa on Grief (Still)” • Jessica Wright, Preaching Phrenitis: The Medicalization of • Elena Ene D-Vasilescu, “Love never fails, not even in Religious Difference in Augustine's Sermons death”: Gregory of Nyssa on Theôsis • Christiaan Kappes, The medical terminology and embryological background underlying John Damascene's doctrine of the Prepurification of Mary at the Annunciation and Incarnation

Sessi on 7: FRIDAY MAY 27 th , 3:30 -5:10 pm – Panels 7A -7L 7A Pre -Dissertation Research Workshop, III (A/V) 7F Nature before and after the Fall, III • Laura Roesch, Locating Holiness: Landscape, Nature, • Blake Leyerle, In Praise of Animals: John and the Sacred in the Works of Prudentius and Chrysostom's Defense of Wild Creatures Venantius Fortunatus • Alex Petkas, Paradise Kept? Julian of Aeclanum and • Kelly Andino, Patristic Accounts of the Holy Sepulchre: Theodore of Mopsuestia on the Nature of the Garden A conversation between text, archeology, and material • Mark Roosien, Seismicity and the Sacred: The culture Earthquake of 438 in Constantinople as a Locus of • Heather Penner, Rotting and the Power of Liturgical and Theological Production Seeing • Kris Hiusr, on the Creation, • Abby Kulisz, Identity and Ambiguity in Christian - Fall, and Redemption of the Nonhuman Creation Muslim Exchanges on the Trinity 7B Ordering Space (A/V) 7G Image, Being, and Embodi ment • Michael Williams, Regulating ascetic discourse in the • Thomas Cattoi, Progression Or Adoption? The letters of Augustine, Paulinus of Nola and Sulpicius Relationship Between eikon and homoiosis in Severus Clement and • Jacob Latham, Ritual and the Christianization of Urban • Diego De Brasi, Body, Soul and human free will in Space Nemesius of Emesa’s De natura hominis • Dina Boero, Making Monks, Shaping Pilgrimage: • Jonathan Bieler, Christ: The Mystery of God Truly Archaeological evidence for coenobitic monasticism at Manifest? Leontius of Byzantium and the Univocity of Qal‘at Sem‘an Being • Jennifer Hunter, Wandering Versus Remaining: A • Zachary Keith, John Damascene's Ambiguous Kinds Coenobitic Polemic against Anchoritism in the Life of of Proskynesis Mary/Marinos 7C Landscapes: Context and Representation, III 7H Ambrose of Milan: Theologian and Exegete • Naoki Kamimura , Jerusalem and the Landscape of • Brian Dunkle, Nautical Anthropology in Ambrose's Sacred Geography in the Sermons of Augustine De Noe • Gerald Boersma, The Vision of Jerusalem in the Psalms • Allan Fitzgerald, De interpellatione Iob et David : a of Ascent within Augustine's Enarrationes in Psalmos unique contribution • Kathryn Kleinkopf, The Physiognomy of Place: • Han-luen Kantzer Komline, Ambrose and the Becoming Landscape in Theodoret's Historia Religiosa Argument from Antiquity • Jesse Arlen, What Then of the Letter of Macarius of • D. H. Williams, Ambrose's One Shot at Apologetics Jerusalem to the Armenians? 7D Paradoxes of the Visual (A/V) 7K Demons and Demonology • Emily Cain Tertullian's Panoptic Performance: • Liza Anderson, Deceiving Demons as a Spiritual Dynamics of Visual Power Practice: The (Im)permeability of the Monastic Self • Bronwen Neil, Dreams in Early Egyptian Monasticism: • Samantha Miller, John Chrysostom's Synthetic Two Alexandrian Approaches to the Visual Paradox Demonology: Philosophy and askesis Blended in the • Midori Hartman, “Hold Me, Lest I Flee”: Slavery, Pulpit Animality, and the Interpretation of Material Culture in • Kellen Plaxco, Didymus Against Demonization: The Late Antiquity Anti-Manichaean Context of On the Holy Spirit • Nathan Howard, Sensual Encounters in Cappadocian • Carson Bay and Blake Jurgen, The Role of Platonic Epistolography Cosmogony in the Configuration of the Daemon in Origen and Iamblichus 7E Religion and Medicine, Disability, and Health in Late 7L Gregory of Nyssa, II Antiquity, III • Amy Hughes, “Equal to the Angels”: Virginity as • Niki Clements, Demons, Depression, and the Dangers of Eschatological Hope in Gregory of Nyssa Naps: Depathologizing Akedia with John Cassian • Michael Petrin, Two Parts of a Single Cultural Project: • Thomas Arentzen, Deformed Bodies in Late Ancient Gregory of Nyssa's Vita S. Macrinae and Dialogus de Hymns anima et resurrectione • John Penniman, St. Gregory and the Broken Bones: • Andrew Radde-Gallwitz, Reading Gregory of Nyssa's Eucharist as Bodily Remedy in the Catechetical Oration To Ablabius among his "teaching-texts" • Michael Wingert, The Sun and Rhetorical Restoration • Stefan Hodges-Kluck, Lessons in Nicene paideia : of the Human Person: The Remnant of the Ancient Gregory of Nyssa's Memorials to Gregory Near Eastern Cult in Syriac Medical Texts Thaumaturgus, Basil of Caesarea, and Meletius of Antioch

Session 10: SATURDAY MAY 28 th , 9:00 -10:40 am – Panels 10A -10L 10 A From Origen to Eusebius 10F Transforming Expectations of Embodiment in Eastern • Ed Gallagher, Origen on the Shepherd of Hermas Christianity • Michael Simmons, Eusebius and Porphyry: The • Xueying Wang, Ministering in Suffering and Dying: The Case of the Theophany , Book V Example of St. Macrina • Hans Boersma, Hospitable Reading: Origen and • Sean Moberg, Pus, Phlegm, and Holiness: The Use of Chrysostom on the Theophany of Genesis 18 Illness in the Apophthegmata Patrum • Gregory Robbins, Catholic Epistles and the • Jacob N. Van Sickle, Marks of Subjection: Male and Catholic Epistles: Eusebius and the Destiny of a Female in Maximus' Commentary on the Lord's Prayer Genre • John Zaleski, Ascetic Withdrawal and the Transformation of the Bodily Senses in Discourse 12 of John of Dalyatha 10B The Second Century 10G Cyril of Alexandria • Clayton Jefford, When Was the Didache Not a • Gregory Hillis, Deification & Pneumatology according to Teaching? Cyril of Alexandria • Ian Mills, Marcion's Gospel and the Longer • Ariane Magny, What did Cyril actually preserve from Ending of Mark: A Scribal Composition and Early Julian's book 1 of Against the Galilaeans ? Second Century Controversies • Alexander Miller, Cyril of Alexandria on the Mosaic Law: • Michail Kitsos, “Τίνα με λέγουσιν οἱ ἄνθρωποι A Reconsideration εἶναι;” Wearing the Philosopher’s Cloak: Was • Jonathan Morgan, The Role of Asceticism in Deification Justin a Christian? According to Cyril of Alexandria's Festal Letters • Stephen Waers, Was a Modalist? 10 C Surveying Early Christian Masculinities I 10H , I • Blossom Stefaniw, Strategies of Masculinity in the • Thomas Clemmons, Christ and Manichaeism before the Teachings of Silvanus Confessions • Jamie Wood, Making Military Men: Forming • Michael Glowasky, An Unfinished Oration: The Place of Christian Soldiers in Late Antique and Byzantine De catechizandis rudibus in Augustine's Case for the Military Manuals Church • James Corke-Webster, Minds of Men, Bodies of • Jonathan Yates, Is the Tongue Tamable? Augustine (and Women: Masculinizing Authority in Eusebius of Pelagius) on Post-Lapsarian Speech Ethics Caesarea's Ecclesiastical History • Andrew Chronister, Augustine, Orosius, and Eastern Support for Pelagius 10 D Irenaeus , Hippolytus, and “The Falsely So -Called 10 K The Family and Reproduction: Purity, Heresy, and Gnostics” Deviance • Carl Johan Berglund, If Heracleon Really Was a • Thomas Whitley, Second Century Swingers?: Toward a Follower of Valentinus, Why Are Their Exegetical Reconstruction of Carpocratianism’s Communalism of Methods So Different? Wives • Kathleen Gibbons, The Cliche of Gnostic • Julia Kelto Lillis, Origen's Coherence on Mary's Persisting Determinism? Rethinking an Ancient Debate on Virginity Autonomy • Sandy Haney, Heresy, Authority, and Family Dynamics: • Jackson Lashier, The Pauline Character of Basil of Caesarea’s Silence on Naucratius Irenaeus' Exchange Theory • Brian Shelton, Augmenting Martha to Diminish Mary: Hippolytus' Rejoinder to Gnostic Thought within In Canticum Canticorum 10 E Biblical Exegesis, I (A/V) 10 L Fourth -Century Approaches to Grace & Salvation (A/V) • Todd Berzon A Topography of Tongues: Babel • Eric Koenke, Paul’s Gospel against other Apostolic among Ancient Jews and Early Christians Soteriologies: Marcionite Influences on Marius • Susan Griffith, Intertextuality in early Greek Victorinus’ Understanding of Christian History, commentaries on Galatians Soteriology and Scripture • J. Albert Harrill, “All Cretans are Liars” (Titus • Andrew Hayes, Macarism structures and their mediating 1:12): a Pagan Oracle in Patristic Interpretation function in the poetry of St. Ephrem • Miriam DeCock, The Reception History of the • Mark DelCogliano, The Reception of Asterius of Man Born Blind in the Greek Patristic Tradition Cappadocia after 357 • Pablo Irizar, The body/soul relation & the spiritual interpretation of the imago Dei in the early Augustine

Session 12: SATURDAY MAY 28 th , 1:30 -3:10 pm – Panels 12A -12L 12A Liturgical Studies (A/V) 12F Responses to Revelation: Performative and Speculative • Susanna Drake, Draping the Holy: Ritual Uses of Veils in Dimensions of Alexandrian and Cappadocian Text Late Antiquity Production and Hermeneutics • Paul Smith, Ritual Authority and the Apostolic • Marcello La Matina, Homily and Communion: reading Constitutions the Cappadocians through I. Zizioulas • Stephen Shoemaker, Devotion to the Mary in • Vito Limone, Origen and Schelling. A Focus on their Early Christian Hymns Exegesis of John 1:1-2 and Philippians 2:6-11 • Jared Ortiz, 'Our Frailty is Made Eternal': Deification in • Vlad Niculescu, From a Doctrine of Scriptural the Latin Sacramentaries Hermeneutics to a Code of Hermeneutic Comportment. On the Use of Prov 22:20-21 in the Fourth Book of Origen’s De principiis

12B Judaism, Dialogue, and Difference 12G Origen • Andrew Jacobs, Dialogue and Conversion: Producing • Margaret M. Mitchell, Problems and Solutions in Early Otherness in an Ancient Genre and Its Modern Christian Biblical Interpretation: A Test Case from the Interpretations Newly Discovered Greek Homilies on Psalms by Origen • Matthew Kraus, Jerome as an Ethnographer of Jews • Eric Scherbenske, Scandalous Readings: Origen, • Candace Buckner, The Curious Case of Judas Cyriacus: Textual Criticism, and Manuscript Variation Reading the Inventio Crucis as a Jewish Conversion Text • John Sehorn, “Filled with the Spirit of Christ”: Origen • Cody Strecker, Jewish Teachers and Greek Pedagogues: on the Prophets and the Unity of Scripture Prophecy and Divine Truth in Pseudo- Justin's • Zachary Kostopoulos, Imitation is the Sincerest Form Cohortatio ad Graecos of Flattery: The Portraits of Origen and Demetrius in the History o f the Alexandrian

12 C Surveying Early Christian Masculinities II (A/V) 12H Augustine of Hippo, II • Chris de Wet, Volatile Anatomies: Physiology and the • Matthew Drever, Human Life in the Spirit: Augustine Politeia of the Male Body in the Thought of John on the Predestination of Christ Chrysostom • Makiko Sato, “Can the Word Not Lie?”: The Concept of • Benjamin Dunning, John Chrysostom and Same-Sex verbum in Augustine's On the Trinity Book XV Eros in the History of Sexuality • David Kiger, The Inner Word and Trinitarian Polemics • Kate Cooper, Respondent in Augustine • Melanie Webb, Usus , Abusus , and Abusio : Augustine's Uti -Frui distinction, its possibilities and ends 12 D Maximus the Confessor 12 K Fathers and Men of Virtue • Jack Bates, Human Participation in Divine Simplicity in • Blair Smith, The Pattern of the Father: Divine the Thought of Maximus the Confessor Fatherhood in Gregory of Nazianzus • Ian Gerdon, Providence and Judgment in Maximus the • Douglas Finn, Job as Exemplary Father and Husband in Confessor's Centuries on Charity the Works of John Chrysostom • Eric Lopez, Maximus the Confessor & the Trinity: • Joseph Lienhard, St Joseph in the Fathers: What Are the Sketches of His Theological Development & Dominant Questions? Themes • Dana Robinson, "The Safe Custody of Good Habit": John • Luis Sales, The Untold Story of Moschion of Hesfin: A Chrysostom on Habit Formation Literary, Linguistic, and Contextual Reevaluation of the Syriac Life of Maximos the Confessor 12E Biblical Exegesis, II 12L Letters to Demetrias • Stephen Presley, The prophetic exegesis of Justin • Geoffrey Dunn, Prosper and Demetrias Martyr • Thomas Scheck, Jerome and Demetrias • Stuart Parsons, Ancient Metalepsis of Scripture and the • Alexander Hwang, Pelagius and Demetrias Formation of Theophilus' Apologetic Strategy • Karl Shuve, Pauline Hermeneutics and the Greek Commentaries on the Song of Songs • Richard Zaleski, Chrysostom and Theodoret on Romans 5:12