Upcoming Events: 2008-2009 Academic Year
| Thursday 12/03/09 |
4:30 p.m. | 2009 Danforth Lecture featuring Caroline Bynum - "Why Things Talk: A Medievalist's Perspective" Caroline Bynum's work has been instrumental in introducing the concept of gender into the study of medieval Christianity. Her path-breaking books, Holy Feast and Holy Fast (1987) and The Resurrection of the Body in Western Christendom (1995), created the paradigm for the study of women's piety that dominates the field today and helped propel the history of the body into a major area of pre-modern European Studies. She is currently working on pilgrimage and piety in Germany and on theories of identity in medieval theology. She came to the Institute from Columbia University, where she was the first woman to be named University Professor. (Biographical information courtesy of the Institute for Advanced Studies, 2009) School of Architecture, Betts Auditorium N101 |
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| Sunday 11/15/09 |
1:50 p.m. | Toledot Yeshu ( The Life Story Of Jesus ) Reconsidered Sunday, November 15 thru Tuesday, November 17 203 Scheide Caldwell House |
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| Thursday 10/15/09 |
4:30 p.m. | Professor Michael Allen Williams - Could Manichaeans be Happy? Cosmology and the Appreciation of Daily Life in Manichaean Communities Michael Williams of the University of Washington (Seattle) has published extensively on the topics of "Gnosticism," heterodox Christianity, and new religious movements in Late Antiquity. At Princeton University he will share his latest research on the Manichaeans and their attitudes toward everyday life in a world ruled by demonic powers. Religion Department Lounge, 1879 Hall |
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