PROGRAM
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30 WILSON HALL ROOM 142
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9:00-9:15 COFFEE AND PASTRIES
9:15-9:30 Welcome and Introductions (Fotini Kondyli and Janet Spittler) 9:30-11:00 Session One Stanley Jones, California State University Long Beach Apocrypha in the World’s Oldest Dated Book Jonathan Henry, Princeton University Textual Composition and the Acts of Thomas Jacob Lollar, Abilene Christian University What Has Ephesus to do with Edessa? : The Syriac History of John, Ephesus, and the Interface Between Textuality and Material Culture 11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK 11:30-12:30 Session Two Felicity Harley, Yale University Visual Apocrypha: a Case Study from Early Christian Rome Stephen Hopkins, Indiana University Bringing Life from a Whale Bone: The Franks Casket, Vindicta Salvatoris, and the Anglo-Saxon Supercessionary Hermeneutics. 12:30-2:00 LUNCH 2:00-3:30 Session Three: Christian Apocrypha and the Digital Humanities Caroline Schroeder, University of the Pacific The Materiality of Digital Apocryphal Studies James Walters, Rochester College The Digital Syriac Corpus: A New Resource for the Study of Syriac Texts Brandon Hawk, Rhode Island College The Medieval Social Network of the Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew 3:30-4:00 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON QUESTIONS RAISED THROUGHOUT THE DAY 4:00-5:00 BREAK, OPTIONAL TOUR OF UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA GROUNDS 5:00-6:30 MAIN PAPER 1 IN THE ROTUNDA, LOWER OVAL ROOM Robin Jensen, Notre Dame University The Apocrypha and the Virgin Mary in Early Christian Art |
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1 WILSON HALL 142
8:30-9:00 COFFEE AND PASTRIES
9:00-10:30 Session Four
Jean-Michel Roessli, Concordia University
The Tiburtine Sibyl and the Legend of the Aracoeli, aka the Vision of Augustus
Bradley Rice, McGill University
The Story of Joseph of Arimathea and the Story of Icons in Christian Apocrypha: The Curious Case of the Icon of the Virgin at Lydda
Emily Laflèche, University of Ottawa
Funerary Imagery in the Procession of the Seven Virgins Located in the Exodus Chapel at El-Bagawat
10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:00 Session Five
Nathan Hardy, University of Chicago
'He will illuminate you and lead you to all truth': Transformations in Image and Viewer Between the Acts of Thaddeus and the Narratio de Imagine Edessena
Gregory Given, Harvard University
Re-Materializing Jesus's Reply to Abgar: The Power of a Copy in Coptic Amulets
12:00-1:30 LUNCH
1:30-2:30 Session Six
Tony Burke, York University
What They Took Back Home: Pilgrimage Souvenirs as Transmitters of Christian Apocrypha
Catherine Taylor, Brigham Young University
Salvation at Hand: Annunciation Pilgrim Tokens and Material Apocrypha
2:30-3:00 COFFEE BREAK
3:00-4:00 MAIN PAPER 2
Maria Evangelatou, University of California at Santa Cruz
Between Theology and Everyday Life: Narrative Choices of material significance in the Protevangelion of James (2nd. c.) and in the Byzantine Kokkinnobaphos Homilaries on the Life of Mary (12th c.)
4:00-5:00 CLOSING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
9:00-10:30 Session Four
Jean-Michel Roessli, Concordia University
The Tiburtine Sibyl and the Legend of the Aracoeli, aka the Vision of Augustus
Bradley Rice, McGill University
The Story of Joseph of Arimathea and the Story of Icons in Christian Apocrypha: The Curious Case of the Icon of the Virgin at Lydda
Emily Laflèche, University of Ottawa
Funerary Imagery in the Procession of the Seven Virgins Located in the Exodus Chapel at El-Bagawat
10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:00 Session Five
Nathan Hardy, University of Chicago
'He will illuminate you and lead you to all truth': Transformations in Image and Viewer Between the Acts of Thaddeus and the Narratio de Imagine Edessena
Gregory Given, Harvard University
Re-Materializing Jesus's Reply to Abgar: The Power of a Copy in Coptic Amulets
12:00-1:30 LUNCH
1:30-2:30 Session Six
Tony Burke, York University
What They Took Back Home: Pilgrimage Souvenirs as Transmitters of Christian Apocrypha
Catherine Taylor, Brigham Young University
Salvation at Hand: Annunciation Pilgrim Tokens and Material Apocrypha
2:30-3:00 COFFEE BREAK
3:00-4:00 MAIN PAPER 2
Maria Evangelatou, University of California at Santa Cruz
Between Theology and Everyday Life: Narrative Choices of material significance in the Protevangelion of James (2nd. c.) and in the Byzantine Kokkinnobaphos Homilaries on the Life of Mary (12th c.)
4:00-5:00 CLOSING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION