Spring 2025
April 7 (n.b. new date)
“The Political Standpoint of the Fourth Gospel: An Argument for Reading its Apocalyptic Plotline as a Middle Platonized Combat Myth”
Jonathan Wegner, University of Chicago
4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 403
April 14
“Rejection, Ransom, and Resistance: Divine, Demonic and Human Agency in Origen’s First Homily on Ps 73”
Bradley Hansen, University of Chicago
4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 403
April 28
“The Rise and Function of the Cypriot Holy Man in Late Antiquity”
Prof. Young Richard Kim, University of Illinois Chicago
4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 403
May 12
“‘Act a Fool with Those Who Are Acting the Fool’: Exegetical Humor in Gregory of Nazianzus’ Oration 4 against Julian”
Lydia Herndon, University of Chicago
4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 403
May 28 (Wednesday)
Book discussion, Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years (Princeton, 2024)
with Dr. Paula Fredriksen
4:30-6:00 pm, Zoom
Winter 2025
February 24
“Peter Silenced in the Christian Cockfight: The Origins of Peter’s Denial Iconography”
Lauren Beversluis, University of Chicago
4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 403
Autumn 2024
October 28
Welcome Reception
4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 403
November 19 (Tuesday)
“Who are the Opponents in Basil’s Homilies in Hexaemeron?”
Prof. Dr. Volker Drecoll, Universität Tübingen
4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 201 (N.B. alternate location)
December 2
“Thecla triumphatrix (or, what did Thecla do to Alexander in that street in Antioch?)”
Prof. Margaret M. Mitchell, University of Chicago
4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 403