PSCO

Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins

an Interdisciplinary Humanities Seminar
in its forty-ninth year under the auspices of
The University of Pennsylvania
Department of Religious Studies
201 Cohen Hall, Philadelphia PA 19104

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Unless otherwise noted, meetings are scheduled for 7:00-9:00 pm on Thursday evenings. Meetings are currently scheduled as follows.

Thursday, 23 Sept. 2010 7:00–9:00 p.m.		“Purity of Language” Dale Martin (Yale University)
Thursday, 21 Oct. 2010 7:00–9:00 p.m.		“How Many Judaisms Were There? A Critique of Mason and Boyarin on Categorization” Seth Schwartz (Columbia University)
Wednesday, 17 Nov. 2010 7:00–9:00 p.m.		“From Heterogeneity to Hegemony: The Limits of Pluralism in the Study of Early Judaism” Ra‘anan S. Boustan (UCLA)
Thursday, 20 Jan. 2011		“Giving up the Godfearers” Ross Kraemer (Brown University)
Thursday, 17 Feb. 2011		“Saints and the doctrine of the ex nihilo: Jewish or Christian things?” Virginia Burrus (Drew University)
Thursday, 31 March 2011		“Legislating Religious Identity in Late Antiquity: The Example of the Theodosian Code” Elizabeth Castelli (Barnard College)
Monday, 11 April 2011		Graduate Student Conference: “Beyond Scare Quotes” featuring Daniel Boyarin (UC Berkeley) as keynote speaker See Call for Papers and flyer (PDF).