PROGRAM

             FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30   WILSON HALL ROOM 142

9:00–9:15

9:15–9:30
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9:30–11:00











11:00–11:30

11:30–12:30








12:30–2:00

2:00–3:30










​3:30–4:00

​4:00–5:00

​5:00–6:30

COFFEE AND PASTRIES

Welcome and Introductions (Fotini Kondyli and Janet Spittler)
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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

COFFEE BREAK

​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.

LUNCH
 
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
 
ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON QUESTIONS RAISED THROUGHOUT THE DAY

​BREAK, OPTIONAL TOUR OF UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA GROUNDS

MAIN PAPER 1 IN THE ROTUNDA, LOWER OVAL ROOM

Mary Cunningham, University of Nottingham
The Virgin Mary as 'Temple' in Early Christian and Byzantine Apocryphal Texts

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1  WILSON HALL 142

8:30–9:00​

​9:00-10:30











10:30–11:00

11:00–12:00




12:00–1:30

1:30–2:30








2:30–2:45

2:45–3:45







3:45–4:00

4:00–5:00





5:00–6:00
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COFFEE AND PASTRIES

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

​COFFEE BREAK

MAIN PAPER 2

Robin Jensen, Notre Dame University
The Apocrypha and the Virgin Mary in Early Christian Art

​LUNCH

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

​COFFEE BREAK

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

​COFFEE BREAK

MAIN PAPER 3

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.)

CLOSING ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION
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