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Religions of Late Antiquity Research Seminar

The Religions of Late Antiquity Seminar (formerly the Patristics Seminar) meets in even weeks during term time.The seminar gathers graduate students, scholars and visiting scholars in the University interested in religions of late antiquity (Christianity, Judaism, cults of the Greco-Roman and near eastern worlds) and their interactions. It shares a common interest with the Cambridge Late Antiquity Network Seminars (CLANS), which engage with the late antique and early medieval periods from a range of disciplines and interdisciplinary perspectives (including Classics, History, Theology and Religious Studies). 

Lent Term 2024

 

29

January

Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe, Cambridge University,

‘The devil in early Christian martyr narratives’  (hybrid: zoom and in person)

12 February

Korshi Dosoo, University of Würzburg,

‘Causers of strife and killers of children: demons and other evil beings in the Coptic magical papyri’ (zoom)

26 February

Sara Ronis, St Mary’s University TX, Tali Artman-Partock, Leicester University, Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe, Cambridge University,

Discussion of Sara Ronis’ Demons in the Details: Demonic Discourse and Rabbinic Culture in Late Antique Babylonia (2022) (zoom)

11 March

Seamus O’Neill, Memorial University of Newfoundland,

‘Why doesn’t the devil just kill us all?: Demonic psychology and the limits of demonic agency (zoom)                                                                               

29 April

Gabrielle Thomas, Emory University GA,

‘The Cappadocians on the problem of the devil’ (hybrid: zoom and in person)

14.00-15.30

Hybrid sessions will be held simultaneously on zoom and in-person in the Lightfoot Room, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge). Other sessions will be held on zoom only. Please contact Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe (sjl39@cam.ac.uk) for zoom login. All colleagues, undergraduate and postgraduate students, from within and outside the faculty, are warmly welcome. 

                                                                                                                                                        

All colleagues, undergraduate and postgraduate students, from within and outside the faculty, are warmly welcome.