ANTIOCH DAY

 

at the

 

Center for the Study of Early Christianity

 

Catholic University of America

 

Friday, March 20, 2009

 

 

The occasion originated with the appointment of Dr Isabella Sandwell to a research fellowship at Dumbarton Oaks in the Spring semester.  Six other scholars were invited to join her in presenting a series of seminars, which were widely advertised in the Washington area.  It is hoped that the papers will form the nucleus of an edited collection.  The program was as follows:

 

Dr Jaclyn Maxwell (Ohio University, Athens), author of Christianization and Communication: John Chrysostom and Lay Christians in Antioch (Cambridge University Press, 2007): “Shifting Attitudes toward Education and Social Class.”

 

Dr Raffaella Cribiore (New York University), author of The School of Libanius in Late Antique Antioch (Princeton University Press, 2007): “Libanius, Oration 63: A Contested Inheritance from a Christian Friend.”

 

Dr Isabella Sandwell (University of Bristol and Dumbarton Oaks), author of Religious Identity in Late Antiquity: Greeks, Jews and Christians in Antioch (Cambridge University Press, 2007): “Chrysostom and his Audience: The Homilies on Genesis.”

 

Dr Christina Shepardson (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), author of Anti-Judaism and Christian Orthodoxy: Ephrem's Hymns in Fourth-Century Syria (Catholic University of America Press, 2009): “Saving the City: Rural Role Models and Urban Corruption.”

 

Dr Blake Leyerle (University of Notre Dame), author of Theatrical Shows and Ascetic Lives: John Chrysostom’s Attack on Spiritual Marriage (University of California Press, 2001): “Sewage and Refuse in the Thought of John Chrysostom.”

 

Dr Wendy Mayer (Australian Catholic University), author of The Homilies of St John Chrysostom (Pontificio Istituto Orientale, 2005) and (with Pauline Allen) The Churches of Syrian Antioch, 300-638 CE (Peeters, forthcoming): “More than a Martyrium: the Church of St Babylas in Antioch Revisited.”

 

Dr Robin Darling Young (University of Notre Dame), author of In Procession before the World: Martyrdom as Public Liturgy in Early Christianity (Marquette University Press, 2001): “The Allure of Daphne.”