Past Events



Center for Ancient Studies Symposium: THE END OF TIME

Oct 13, 2012 (All Day)

Whether or not the end of the time is predicted in the Maya calendar, many of the ancient world civilizations hosted a belief in a universal cataclysm—the Eschaton, the coming of the Antichrist, the Last Judgment,…



Packaging Legal Traditions in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: An Interdisciplinary Workshop

May 6, 2012 at -

Participants in this interdisciplinary workshop will explore the impact of genre on the reception of legal traditions, and thus, on the shaping of discrete legal cultures. The collaboration of established and…



PSCO - John G. Gager, "The Toledot Yeshu – Jewish Memories of Jesus and Christian Beginnings"

Apr 26, 2012 at -



RELS colloquium: Josh Dubler & Joel Blecher, "The Prophet's Toothbrush is on 52nd Street: Tradition, Modernity and the Miswak"

Apr 19, 2012 at



Galit Hasan-Rokem (Hebrew University, Jerusalem), “Sirens in the Synagogue: Echoes of Classical and Christian Voices in the Midrash”

Apr 17, 2012 at

Sponsored by The Graduate Committee on Folklore and the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania



RELS colloquium: Book discussion of Matory, Black Atlantic Religion

Apr 5, 2012 at



RELS colloquium: Ophir Münz-Manor, "The Ritualization of Creation in Jewish and Christian Liturgical Texts from Late Antiquity"

Mar 29, 2012 at



PSCO - Jeremy Schott, "Textual Ethics: Reading and Writing in the Plotinian and Origenist Traditions"

Mar 22, 2012 at

Why do we write? More fundamentally, should we write, and how do the ways we think about and use texts shape us and our communities?



Glenn Greenwald, "Endless War and the Erosion of Civil Liberties in the Age of Terrorism"

Mar 22, 2012 at

Reception immediately to follow

Free and open to the public



PSCO - Elizabeth A. Castelli, "Remembering and Forgetting in Lactantius's De Mortibus Persecutorum"

Feb 23, 2012 at

In De Mortibus Persecutorum, his polemical reflection on the unhappy deaths of a long list of Roman emperors who reigned during times…