Event
In De Mortibus Persecutorum, his polemical reflection on the unhappy deaths of a long list
of Roman emperors who reigned during times of persecution, Lactantius
embeds the past within a larger narrative of cosmic justice. As part of the PSCO's ongoing discussions of "Memory and Forgetting" this year, the seminar
will seek to read Lactantius’s elaborate revenge fantasy in light of
the broader frame of Christian memory-practices.
D6 Speaker
Elizabeth A. Castelli is Professor and Chair of the Religion Department at Barnard College. Since 2009, she has been Acting Chair of the Program in Jewish Studies at Barnard, and in the 2011-2012 academic year, she is Acting Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women. Castelli is a specialist in biblical studies, early Christianity, and feminist/gender studies in religion. Her work in biblical studies draws upon contemporary literary theory and cultural criticism.