Past Events



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…



RELS colloquium: Phil Webster, "Copying the Unoriginal: Combabus's Eunuch Body"

Feb 23, 2012 at

This event forms part of the Professionalization component of RELS Colloquium, focusing on graduate student presentations and practical advice about teaching, publication, conferences,  the academic job search, etc…



RELS colloquium: Book discussion: David Frankfurter's Evil Incarnate

Feb 16, 2012 at



RELS colloquium: Article Discussion: Debating the Mosaic Distinction

Feb 9, 2012 at

READINGS:

  • Jan Assmann, “No God but God: Exclusive Monotheism and the Language of Violence,” in Of God and Gods (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2008), 106-26.
  • Jan Assmann, “The Mosaic…



RELS colloquium: Discussion of "The Sanctuary," New Yorker, December 2011.

Jan 26, 2012 at



PSCO - Matthew Roller, "The Exemplarity of Women"

Dec 8, 2011 at



The Gospel of John and the "Parting of the Ways"

Dec 8, 2011 at -

"The Gospel of John and the "Parting of the Ways" (Topic Subject to Change)

Please note, this lecture takes place in Cohen 402 at 4:30pm.

Espresso and light refreshments will be served in Cohen Hall…