2016 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society, Chicago, May 26–28, 2016

The 2016 Annual Meeting of the North American Patristics Society will take place on May 26–28, 2016, at the Hyatt Regency in Chicago. Abstracts may be submitted for Open Call Sessions or as part of a group of papers in a Prearranged Session.

2016 Open Call Sessions

Pre-Dissertation Research Workshop
Sponsor: Kate Cooper, University of Manchester [UK]

Geography and the Historiography of Christian Thought in Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Emanuel Fiano, Duke University

Persecutions of Christians after Constantine: Polemic and Rhetorical Discourse
Sponsor: Eric Fournier, West Chester University

The Roots of Hagiography
Sponsors: Christa Gray, University of Glasgow [UK] & James Corke-Webster University of Durham [UK]

The Origins of a Christian Scripture
Sponsor: David Jorgensen, Colby College

Translations in Early Christianity
Sponsors: Joel Kalvesmaki, Dumbarton Oaks & Robin Darling Young, Catholic University of America

Landscapes:  Context and Representation
Sponsors: Morwenna Ludlow, University of Exeter [UK], Scot Douglass, University of Colorado at Boulder & Thomas Hunt, Newman University [UK]

Nature before and after the Fall
Sponsor: Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe, King’s College London [UK]

Religion and Medicine, Disability, and Health in Late Antiquity
Sponsors: Heidi Marx-Wolf, University of Manitoba & Kristi Upson-Saia, Occidental College

Ordering Monastic Space in the Late Antique and Early Medieval West
Sponsors: Tina Sessa, Ohio State University & Jamie Wood, University of Lincoln [UK]

Religious Economics in Late Antiquity
Sponsor: Zachary Smith, Creighton University

Object, Text, and Image: Making Meaning
Sponsor: Dennis Trout, University of Missouri

Afterlife Traditions in Early Christianity
Sponsor: Jeffrey Trumbower, St Michael’s College

Verse Exegesis in Syriac and Greek
Sponsor: Erin Galgay Walsh, Duke University