Event

RELS faculty Prof. Reyhan Durmaz will lead a co-hosted event with RELS and the Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins..

Dinner will be served at 5:30 pm at Claudia Cohen Hall Second Floor Lounge. Please email pscoseminar@sas.upenn.edu for a Zoom link to this event.

Reyhan Durmaz is an assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the history of Christianity in Late Antiquity and the medieval Middlei East. Her first book, Stories between Christianity and Islam (2022), examines the role fo hagiography and storytelling in the articulations of religious identities and communal boundaries in the late antique and medieval Middle East. For her second book she is investigating the forms and expressions of religion in the early medieval Middle Eastern countryside. Her work appeared, among other venues, in the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Church History and Religious Culture, and the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.