2024 UBC Medieval Workshop

Other than the keynote lecture on Thursday, October 17, registration is required for all sessions. To register, visit the registration portal.
For workshop details, including abstracts and contact information, see the workshop website.

Program

*All sessions will convene at the Green College Coach House. 

Wednesday, Oct. 16

9:15: Preliminary remarks
9:30–11:00: session #1 – Augustine & His Readers

chair: Gregg Gardner (UBC, Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies)

  • Susanna Elm (Univ. California, Berkeley), “‘Civitas capta:’ Augustine’s Cross-references to Livy in the City of God (Book 1)”
  • Conrad Leyser (Univ. Oxford), “Unfinished Business: Augustine and his Monastic Readers, 425-435” [remote presentation]
  • Mor Hajbi (Hebrew Univ., Jerusalem), “The Post-Augustinians on Time, History, and Eschatology”
11:15–12:30: session #2 – Rereading, Redescribing: New Approaches 

chair: Bonnie Effros (UBC, History)

  • Sean Hannan (MacEwan Univ.), “Rereading Augustine as Algerian”
  • Éric Rebillard (Cornell Univ.),  “Redescribing the Triumph of Christianity”
12:30: lunch
2:15–4:00: session #3 – Late Antique Texts, Medieval Interventions 

chair: Richard Unger (UBC, History)

  • Jean-Félix Aubé-Pronce (Univ. Quebec, Montreal), “Were the Carolingians Pseudo-editing?”
  • Marina Giani (Univ. Milan), “Augustine’s Reception in Medieval Lexicography: An Overview through Case Studies”
  • Riccardo Macchioro (Univ. Toronto), “The Words of the Fathers, the Words of the Compiler: Patristic Texts in Paul the Deacon’s Homiliary”
  • Graeme Ward (Univ. Tübingen), “Orosius and the Reading of Ancient Christian History in Eleventh-Century France”

Thursday, Oct. 17

9:15–10:45: session #4 – Poets, Philosophers, and Exegetes (or Writers, Not-Writers, and ‘Digital’ Writers) 

chair: Paul Allen (Corpus Christi College)

  • Catherine Conybeare (Bryn Mawr College), “Song, Self, and Sonority in Paulinus and Nicetas”
  • Sabrina Inowlocki (Univ. Haifa), “Enemas, Parasites, and the Empty Book: To Write or Not to Write as a Philosopher in the Roman World” [remote presentation]
  • Josh Timmermann (UBC), “Jesus as Writer? The Pericope adulterae in Late Antique and Early Medieval Exegesis and Modern Biblical Criticism”
11:15–12:30: session #5 – Writing the Soul and Salvation in Late Antiquity 

chair: John Christopoulos (UBC, History)

  • Jesse Keskiaho (Univ. Helsinki), “The Nature of the Soul from Augustine to Gregory the Great”
  • Martina Carandino (Univ. Oxford), “The Destiny of Unborn Children in Late Antiquity”
12:30: lunch
2:15–4:00: session #6 [student session] – Holy Men (of Letters) in Perilous Times

chair: Sara Ann Knutson (UBC, History)

  • Crispin Wellburn (UBC), “The Hun and the Holy Man: The Reception and Transformation of Leo the Great’s Meeting with Attila the Hun”
  • Anika Islam (UBC), “‘Together We Shall Carry the Cross (Just Each in His Own Way)’: Repentance and Salvation in Augustine’s Confessions and Their Incarnations in Christian Literature”
  • Simeon Faehndrich (UBC), “‘With a Familiar Violence’: Becoming the Reader in Augustine’s Confessions“
  • Sabina Druce (UBC), “Influence and Critique: Origins and Impact of Henri-Xavier Arquillière’s L’Augustinisme Politique“
5:00–6:30: Keynote Lecture 
  • James J. O’Donnell (Arizona State Univ.), “What Was Christianity?”*
6:30: Reception

Friday, Oct. 18

9:15–10:45: session #7 – Jerome, Rufinus, and Their Interlocutors 

chair: Leanne Bablitz (UBC, Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies)

  • Neil McLynn (Univ. Oxford), “Marcella’s Jerome” [remote presentation]
  • Matthieu Pignot (Univ. Namur), “Rediscovering the Enchiridion of Rufinus of Aquileia”
  • Andrew Cain (Univ. Colorado, Boulder), “The Translator as Author in Late Latin Literature: Rufinus of Aquileia and his Historia monachorum in Aegypto” [remote presentation]
11:00–12:30: session #8 – Writing (and Editing) Ancient (and Medieval) Christianity in Early Modern Europe  

chair: Courtney Booker (UBC, History)

  • Paolo Sachet (Univ. Geneva), “Jerome’s Letters Hit the Press: A Reappraisal of the First Five Editions” [remote presentation]
  • Rutger Kramer (Utrecht Univ.), “A Human(ist) Saint: The Life of Saint Adalhard of Corbie by Cornelius Aurelius (c. 1500)” [remote presentation]
  • Hilmar Pabel (Simon Fraser Univ.), “Who Owns History? Peter Canisius’ Catholic Claim on Ancient Christianity against Protestant Revisionists”
12:30: Concluding remarks
2:30: Optional group visit to UBC’s Museum of Anthropology

After a break for lunch (not served at Green College, inquire for other on-campus dining options), we will depart from the Green College Coachhouse for the nearby museum (admission $25 CAD, for students or seniors $22 CAD).

*The Keynote Lecture is open to all (registration not required), and will also be live-streamed here.

Meeting ID: 631 1401 4919

Passcode: 351074