ECSW Schedule 2023-24

Winter 2024

January 8

“Origen, Amelius, and the Hermeneutics of the Johannine Prologue.”

Prof. Ilaria Ramelli, Sacred Heart University, Milan

4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 208

March 4

“The Myth of the Logos Revealed at Night: An Exegetical Argument for the Middle Platonizing Unity of the Johannine Narrative”

Jonathan Wegner, University of Chicago

4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 403

Autumn 2023

October 2

“The Problem of Miracle”

Prof. Margaret M. Mitchell, University of Chicago

4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 106

October 6 (Friday)

Library Resources Training for Students in Bible, Reception, and Jewish Studies

Dr. Anne Knafl, Bibliographer for Religion, Philosophy, and Jewish Studies, University of Chicago

Co-sponsored with Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Reception Workshop

1:00-2:00 pm, Zoom

October 16

“Paul and Silent Witness in the Preface of Origen’s Contra Celsum

Emily Barnum, University of Chicago

4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 403

October 30

“A New Edition of the Codex Vercellensis Luke Based on Multi-Spectral Images”

Prof. Dr. Annette Weissenrieder, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg

4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 200

November 6

Space, Time, and Magic: Bakhtin’s Theory of Chronotope in Acts”

Allison Barbee, University of Chicago

4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 403

November 15 (Wednesday, n.b. new date)

“Sinners, Seductresses, and Sirens: The Many Faces of Female Wickedness”

Prof. Erin Galgay Walsh, University of Chicago

Co-sponsored with Hebrew Bible and Early Jewish Reception Workshop

5:15-7:00 pm, Swift 201

December 4

Physical Space and the Depiction of Christ’s Life in the Pantanassa Monastery at Mystras”

Dr. Richard Zaleski, University of Chicago

4:30-6:00 pm, Swift 200