PSCO

Schedule

2016–2017 Topic:
Writing the Biblical Past

All sessions will be held in the Second Floor Lounge of Cohen Hall at the University of Pennsylvania and will run from 7:00-9:00 p.m., preceded by an informal dinner.

Thursday, 13 Oct. 2016
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Cohen Hall, Penn
“Hezekiah the Censor and the Case of the Missing Books”

Eva Mroczek (UCDavis)

audio recording

Thursday, 3 Nov. 2016
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Cohen Hall, Penn
“Reimagining Kings: Historiographical Poetics in the Kings of Kings”

Alison Joseph (Swarthmore)

audio recording

Thursday, 1 Dec. 2016
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Cohen Hall, Penn
“Parody, Pastiche, and Collective Memory in the Alphabet of Ben Sira”

Jillian Stinchcomb (Penn)

audio recording

Thursday, 2 March 2017
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Cohen Hall, Penn
“Native Theories of Text Production and Transmission in Biblical and Parabiblical Literature”

Jacqueline Vayntrub (Brandeis)

audio recording

Thursday, 16 March 2017
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Cohen Hall, Penn
“5 Ezra: A Rewriting of 4 Ezra?”

Karina Martin Hogan (Fordham)

audio recordings

Thursday, 30 March 2017
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Cohen Hall, Penn
“The Black Queen of Sheba: The Circulation of an African Idea”

Wendy Belcher (Princeton)

Thursday, 20 April 2017
7:00–9:00 p.m.
Cohen Hall, Penn
“Hagar's Journey to Blackness”

Nyasha Junior (Temple)

audio recordings

Thursday, 26 April 2017
4:00–8:30 p.m.
402 Cohen Hall, Penn
“Annette Reeds’ Fallen Angels: A Conference in Honor of Annette Yoshiko Reed”

(a special conference
hosted by her graduate students)

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