Call for Papers "Living in Antiquity: Jews, Greeks, and Christians" Interdisciplinary Conference The Core Humanities Program, Villanova University Villanova, PA (USA) October 5-7, 2005
Plenary Speakers Daniel Boyarin, University of California Remi Brague, The Sorbonne, Paris Paula Frederiksen, Boston University In the Greco-Roman world various groups had to negotiate cultural and religious space within the empire. Some were official, some tolerated, and others illicit. Recent scholarship on the complexity of these relationships and interactions has opened up new ways to understand our western tradition. This conference focuses on the intersection of Jews, Greeks, and Christians in antiquity. It is an interdisciplinary effort to examine this period from different religious, social, philosophical, and cultural perspectives. The aim is to deepen our understanding of how these three traditions thought of their gods, themselves, and the world around them. What did they have to say to one another? We welcome a wide range of approaches to this topic. Some papers will proceed historically, considering how diverse communities actually lived in one another's company. Other papers will make their own comparisons with a view to elucidating philosophical or theological issues across traditions. Still others will take a more literary approach to key texts. We are especially interested in papers that speak to an interdisciplinary audience. For further information, please contact one of the conference coordinators: Tim Horner [email protected] Peter Busch [email protected] _________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
