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    This document outlines the schedule and program for a conference on late antiquity and early Christian studies being held in Australia from April 20-22, 2022. The conference will include keynote speeches, panel discussions, and presentations on topics related to late Roman history, early Christianity, and religious interactions in the late ancient Mediterranean world.

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    New Trajectories

    in Australian
    Research on
    Late Antiquity
    and Early
    Christian Studies

    20–22 April 2022


    New Trajectories in Australian Research on
    Late Antiquity and Early Christian Studies
    20-22 April 2022

    All sessions will be held on Level 7 of the Daniel Mannix Building at ACU’s St Patrick’s
    Campus, 115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy. The Daniel Mannix Building can be entered from
    Young Street or via St Mary of the Cross Square on Brunswick Street. See building 403 on
    the campus map: acu.edu.au/locations/melbourne/melbourne-campus-map

    Wednesday 20 April

    9 – 10am Arrival and Coffee / Tea

    10 – 11am Plenary one


    Chair: Matthew R. Crawford, ACU

    ‘Dreams, prophecy and violence from early Christianity to the rise of Islam’
    Bronwen Neil, Macquarie University

    11 – 11.10am Break

    11.10am – 12pm Short paper session one


    Chair: Michael Champion, ACU

    ‘Hypocrisy and high standards: Theodoret on Christian and non-Christian ascetics’


    Michael Magree, Boston College

    ‘Inside others: Early Christian protagonists and their impairments’


    Kylie Crabbe, ACU

    12 – 1pm Lunch

    1 – 2pm Plenary two


    Chair: Michael Hanaghan, ACU

    ‘The rise of decline in the later Roman Empire’


    Richard Miles, University of Sydney

    2 – 2.15pm Break

    2.15 – 3.05pm Short paper session two


    Chair: Jonathan Zecher, ACU

    1
    rev: 8/3/22
    ‘Patterning the past: Research for the future’
    Katherin Papadopoulos, St Athanasius College, University of Divinity

    ‘Historical and geoarchaeological records of the interaction between society and


    climate/environment in late antique and medieval Italy’
    Duncan Keenan-Jones, University of Queensland

    3.05 – 3.30pm Coffee / Tea

    3.30 – 4.20pm Short paper session three


    Chair: Stephen Carlson, ACU

    ‘Augustine of Hippo and Eudaemonism’


    Katie Chambers, University of New England

    ‘Trajectories of ‘doubt’ in early Christianity and early Christian Studies’


    Anna Nürnberger, Australian Lutheran College

    4.20 – 4.30pm Break

    4.30 – 5.30pm Plenary three


    Chair: Sarah Gador-Whyte, ACU

    ‘Crises of leadership in the Eastern Roman Empire (250-1000 CE)’


    Peter Edwell, Macquarie University

    5.30pm Drinks and nibbles

    Thursday 21 April

    8.30 – 9am Coffee / Tea

    9 – 10am Plenary four


    Chair: Kylie Crabbe, ACU

    ‘Babatha's Sisters: Judaean Women Refugees in the Wilderness Caves’


    Joan Taylor, King’s College London

    10 – 10.15am Break

    10.15 – 11.05am Short paper session four


    Chair: Sarah Gador-Whyte, ACU

    2
    rev: 8/3/22
    ‘Divine envy and generosity in cosmological and anthropological arguments between
    Christians and Neoplatonists’
    Edward Jeremiah, University of Melbourne

    ‘St Cyril of Alexandria and the mysteries of Isis in De adoratione’


    Tom Pietsch, Australian Lutheran College/ACU

    11.05 – 11.30am Coffee/tea

    11.30am – 12.30pm Plenary five


    Chair: Stephen Carlson, ACU

    ‘Progress in the Arts and Sciences according to Julian and Cyril: How Central is
    Knowledge to Human Flourishing?’
    Matthew R. Crawford, ACU

    12.30 – 1.30pm Lunch

    1.30 – 2.30pm Plenary six


    Chair: Matthew R. Crawford, ACU

    ‘The history of inebriation and reason from Plato to the Latin Middle Ages’
    Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides, Macquarie University

    2.30 – 2.45pm Break

    2.45-3.35pm Grant workshop session one


    Chair: Michael Champion, ACU

    ‘Roman mass media, religion and imperial power, circa 69-395 CE’
    Ryan Strickler, Newcastle University; Amelia Brown, University of Queensland;
    Estelle Strazdins, University of Queensland; Bronwen Neil, Macquarie University;
    Justin Pigott, University of Auckland

    ‘The genomic text of the New Testament’


    Stephen C. Carlson, ACU, and Rob Turnbull, University of Melbourne

    3.35 – 4pm Coffee/tea

    4 – 5.15pm Grant workshop session two


    Chair: Ben Edsall, ACU

    ‘A phenomenology of ancient Christian meditative practice in the light of


    contemplative science’
    Cullan Joyce, University of Melbourne

    3
    rev: 8/3/22
    ‘The wakeful night: Nocturnal imagination, encounters and emotions in the late
    ancient Mediterranean’
    Amelia Brown, University of Queensland, Kylie Crabbe, ACU, Sarah Gador-Whyte,
    ACU, and Dawn LaValle Norman, ACU

    ‘‘Who, then, is my neighbour?’: Political, theological, psychological, and biblical


    approaches to enmity’
    Scott A. Kirkland, Trinity College, and Christopher A. Porter, Trinity College

    6.30pm Conference dinner

    Friday 22 April

    8.30 – 9am Coffee/tea

    9 – 10am Plenary seven


    Chair: David Litwa, ACU

    ‘Manichaean liturgical texts and practices from Egypt to China’


    Iain Gardner, University of Sydney

    10 – 10.15am Break

    10.15 – 11.05am Short paper session five


    Chair: Michael P. Theophilos, ACU

    ‘‘Pay me two chickens, but you can keep your Christology!’ Reflections on the Kellis
    Manichaeans from the point of view of the FAB’
    Geoffrey Jenkins, Australian Institute of Archaeology

    ‘Rethinking the origins of Christianity in Alexandria’


    David Litwa, ACU

    11.05 – 11.30am Coffee/tea

    11.30am – 12.20pm Short paper session six


    Chair: Ben Edsall, ACU

    ‘Conquering country: Johannine anti-Jewishness and colonial violence in Australia’


    Blake Wassell, ACU

    ‘The infancy narrative of Matthew in light of astrological papyri and ostraca’


    Michael P. Theophilos, ACU

    4
    rev: 8/3/22
    12.20 – 1.30pm Lunch

    1.30pm – 2.20pm Short paper session seven


    Chair: Michael Hanaghan, ACU

    ‘Cyprian of Carthage and the OT canon of North Africa’


    Edwina Murphy, Australian College of Theology

    ‘A problem like Maria: Refiguring sex work in the Life of Theodoros of Sykeon’
    Jo DowlingSoka, Macquarie University

    2.20 – 2.30pm Break

    2.30 – 3.30pm Plenary eight


    Chair: Jonathan Zecher, ACU

    ‘Memories of utopia: Destroying the past to create the future (300 – 650 CE)’
    Wendy Mayer, Australian Lutheran College

    3.30pm Coffee/tea and departure

    5
    rev: 8/3/22
    New Trajectories in Australian Research on Late Antiquity and Early Christian Studies
    20–22 April 2022
    Australian Catholic University
    115 Victoria Parade, Fitzroy, Victoria, 3065 Australia
    Convenor: Matthew Crawford

    Cover art:
    ‘Fresco from the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua, Rome (Matthew Crawford personal photograph)’.

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