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Boundaries and Bodies in Late Antiquity
A conference sponsored by Cornell University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies,
Program of Religious Studies, Department of Classics, Program of Archaeology,
Program of Jewish Studies, Society for the Humanities, Department of History,
Medieval Studies Program, the Dean’s Office, Feminist, Gender, Sexuality Studies,
and The Late Antiquity Research Consortium of New York
October 20-21, 2006
Cornell University
A. D. White House
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
Friday, October 20
7:30-9:00 p.m. Keynote Address
Presiding, Kim Haines-Eitzen, Cornell University
Patricia Cox Miller, Syracuse University
On the Edge of Self and Other: Holy Bodies in Late Antiquity
9:00 p.m. Reception
Saturday, October 21
8:45-9:30 a.m. Coffee and Bagels
9:30-10:20 a.m. Session I
Chair, Georgia Frank, Colgate University
Derek Krueger, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro
The Art of the Body in the Age of Liturgical Reproduction
10:20-11:10 a.m. Session II
Chair, Jennifer Glancy, LeMoyne University
Virginia Burrus, Drew University
Carnal Excess: Flesh at the Limits of Imagination
11:10-11:30 a.m. Coffee Break
11:30-12:20 a.m. Session III
Chair, Anne Merideth, University of Rochester
David Frankfurter, University of New Hampshire
Martyrology and the Prurient Gaze
12:20-2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00-2:50 p.m. Session IV
Chair, Eric Rebillard, Cornell University
David Brakke, Indiana University
The Body As/At the Boundary of Gnosis
2:50-3:40 p.m. Session V
Chair, Patricia Cox Miller, Syracuse University
Elizabeth Clark, Duke University
Contested Bodies: Early Christian Asceticism and
Nineteenth-Century Polemics
3:40-4:00 p.m. Coffee Break
4:00-5:00 p.m. Whither the Study of the Body? An Open Roundtable
Co-facilitators: Gay Byron, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity
School, and Jennifer Glancy, LeMoyne University (and Conference Speakers)
5:00-5:15 p.m. Closing Remarks
The conference is free and open to the public. For further information, please
contact Professor Kim Haines-Eitzen, Chair of the Department of Near Eastern
Studies, 409 White Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 ([log in to unmask];
(607) 255-2519); for information about visitor parking: www.cornell.edu.
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Robert A. Kraft, Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania
227 Logan Hall (Philadelphia PA 19104-6304); tel. 215 898-5827
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http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/rak/kraft.html
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