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Thanks to all-session organizers and chairs, presenters, and attendees alike who helped to make the recent annual meeting a success. Despite record-setting participation, this year’s conference maintained the rich traditions of scholarly exchange and relaxed sociability that have characterized our meetings for nearly four decades. Thanks as well to our two plenary speakers, Gillian Clark and Philip Rousseau, for stimulating us to think hard about issues at the core of our scholarly work and to David Hunter for his post-banquet foray through the thickets of the Society’s (not always easy) relationship with the history of sexuality.
As we move ahead into the new year we do so with an infusion of new talent. Kenneth Steinhauser has been elected to succeed me as Vice-President while Kyle Smith, Caroline Schroeder, and Geoffrey Dunn now join the NAPS Board. Already we are anticipating the XVI International Conference on Patristic Studies to be held in Oxford from Monday 8th August to Friday 12th August 2011 (for more information look under the News tab). I look forward to seeing many of you there before the Society meets again in Chicago in May 2012.
Dennis Trout, 2010-1012 President of NAPS
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Call for Papers: ‘A magic stronger than the governors’ power’. Literature and Society in the Fourth Century A.D. (23-24th of September 2010).
Organised by Lieve Van Hoof (K.U.Leuven) and Peter Van Nuffelen (UGent)
On September 23rd – 24th 2010, the Universities of Ghent and Leuven (Belgium) will be hosting a joint two-day workshop under the title ‘A magic stronger than the governors’ power’. Literature and Society in the Fourth Century A.D. The aim of the workshop is to explore literature as a social phenomenon in the period from Constantine to Theodosius I.
The XVI conference will be held from Monday 8th August to Friday 12th August 2011. It will take place, as usual, in the Examination Schools in the High Street, Oxford. Health and safety regulations at the Examination Schools limit the maximum number of delegates to 750.
Deadlines:
Submitted titles with abstracts: 31st March 2011
Submitted workshop titles: 31st May 2011For more information, go to http://www.patristics.org.uk/
Gregory the Great’s correspondence mirrors the historical context of his day and age. The reader gets to know his views on the affairs of the world, his spirituality; how he communicated as leader of the Church, diplomat, or as friend.
I started a blog and twitter about the 800 plus letters, using The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn, published by Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. The concept is simple: every day or so a twitter with a quote, linked to a blog which quotes the paragraph the quote can be found.
Announcing a conference on Augustine’s thought to take place at the University of Chicago Divinity School, 9:30-5:00pm (reception following) on Wednesday, May 26, 2010 (the day before NAPS meets in Chicago). Titled “The Augustinian Moment: Reflections at the Limits of Selfhood,” the conference features papers by Brian Stock, James Wetzel, Burcht Pranger, and Jean-Luc Marion, all of whom have books on Augustine appearing in 2010 or 2011. The conference, sponsored by the Martin Marty Center, is FREE, but registration is required. For information and registration, go to http://divinity.uchicago.edu/martycenter/conferences/augustine/index.html
