Spring 2025

April 7 (n.b. new date)

Dissertation chapter on the Gospel of John

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 21 (Wednesday)

Book discussion, Ancient Christianities: The First Five Hundred Years (Princeton, 2024)

with Dr. Paula Fredriksen

Location TBA

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