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The first PSCO Seminar of the new academic year will be held on Thursday
evening, 28 September, in the 2nd floor lounge of Logan Hall at the
University of Pennsylvania (36th St, just north of Spruce). For those who
wish, food will be delivered at 6 pm, with the seminar from 7-9 pm.
The speaker will be James Boykin Rives (York University, Toronto) on "How
Wild was the West? Religious and Cultural Identity in Roman North Africa."
Professor Rives will discuss the question of North Africa's connections to
wider Mediterranean culture (Punic, Greek, and Roman), which were
long-term and extensive. He will also address considerations of the
layering and contestation of cultural and religious identity within North
Africa itself.
Professor Rives is author of Religion and Authority in Roman Carthage from
Augustus to Constantine (Clarendon Press, 1995), and has written
extensively on Roman history with a particular emphasis on religion. You
can learn more about him from his website:
http://www.yorku.ca/classics/faculty/rives.html
The PSCO topic for 2000-2001 is
"The Wild Wild West: Religious and Societal Transformations on the North
African Frontier," co-chaired by William Gruen and Shira Lander
(University of Pennsylvania).
Further information and minutes of past seminars may be found on the PSCO
web site:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/psco/
Bob Kraft, PSCO coordinator
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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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